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Montrose 1958 75cl

2eme Grand Cru Classé | St. Estephe | Bordeaux | France
CHF 264.85
Critics scores
88 Robert Parker
Tasted at the château, the 1958 Montrose is an off-vintage that Robert Parker praised during his vertical in 2014, so I was eager to see how it showed. It certainly has retained an attractive bouquet with vestiges of red berry fruit, algae, candied orange peel and leather. It actually seemed to grow in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin. There is much more weight and presence here than I was expecting, plenty of dark berry fruit mixed with iodine and sage. To criticism this wine, it does seem to run out of idea about three-quarters of the way through and as a consequence, the finish feels rather one-dimensional and more how you would expect a 1958 Left Bank to perform after 58 years. Still, it would not surprise me if better bottles are out there, such as the one tasted by Robert Parker. Tasted September 2016.<br/>
Producer
Château Montrose
Producing outstanding Bordeaux year after year, this 95-hectare property, Château Montrose is a classified Second Growth in the Saint-Estèphe hierarchy. Just north of Pauillac, Montrose is ideally-situated on a gravelly, well-drained plot that runs along the Gironde estuary for over a kilometer. The local microclimate, unique to Montrose works to mitigate temperatures, protecting the vines from devastating frosts as well as equally destructive heatwaves. The patchwork of a vineyard, planted on the world’s most privileged winegrowing terroirs, has been owned by Martin and Olivier Bouygues since 2006. In 2012 they brought in Hervé Berland, the former managing director of Mouton Rothschild to act as estate manager. This spectacular Saint-Estèphe château crafts three wines, they are immense, powerful, dense and long-lived. The leading wine, Montrose is a monumental fleshy, and persuasive red.