2025 Montrose

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Saint-Estèphe; 77% Cabernet Sauvignon; 19% Merlot; 4% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 30 hl/ha; pH 3.55; IPT 81; 13.4% alcohol; tasted at Montrose with Charlotte Bouygues and Pierre Graffeuille). Sourced entirely from Terrace 4. A wine of such utter grace and charm. Saline in its minerality as is immediately evident aromatically. We have damson and dark berry fruits - all perfectly ripe and al dente - bramble, certainly, black berries too, maybe a little black raspberry and also loganberry. With aeration, but not at first, there are black cherries and blueberries too, a little walnut oil and a hint of peony and cedar together. This is wonderfully composed on the attack and entry, so soft and seductive, sensuous and tactile in its exquisitely fine-grained tannins and the cool dark berry fruits that dominate at this nascent stage. The tannins are like pencil strokes that outline the shape of the wine for the watercolourist to illuminate with shades of purple, blue, red and black. Majesterial and so incredibly gracious. The terroir signature is again remarkable, the clarity of the wine - despite its density - extraordinary. Plusating after the little grip of the tannins that announces the finish, almost like a drum-roll. This is right up there amongst the most complete and harmonious wines of the vintage.
98-100/100 Colin Hay

It feels almost impossible! A wine of such depth, such latent power, as if driven by a hidden nuclear core, unfolds with a softness that defies expectation: its edge held in reserve, its strength governed through stillness. Building on the crystalline fruit and ample tannic depth of 2022, Château Montrose 2025, lifted by its vibrant acidity, draws itself upward into a tall, sculpted form, like a perfectly proportioned figure of striking presence. Yet what truly astonishes is its aromatic purity. In a year defined by heat and drought, there is not a hint of excess. Camellia and iris glide across the nose with quiet elegance, while black goji berry and wild blueberry anchor the depths, unfolding like an ink-wash landscape, rich in tone yet fluid in spirit. To me, the 2025 vintage stands as a monumental expression in the history of Château Montrose, a wine of such presence and resonance that it will be felt across generations.
99-100/100 Alexandre Ma

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Montrose erupts from the glass with intense notes of freshly crushed black currants, fresh blackberries, and mulberries, leading to suggestions of crushed rocks, black olives, violets, and forest floor with a touch of garrigue. The delicately styled, medium-bodied palate has a firm, fine-grained texture with a refreshing line and taut, muscular fruit, finishing long and earthy. The blend is 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, and 4% Cabernet Franc. It has a pH of 3.65 and the alcohol is 13.4%. It is aging for 18 months in oak barriques, 60% new.
97-99/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Deep and nuanced plum fruit on the opening, vivid ruby in colour with tension, lift and estate signature. An extremely classic Montrose, love the lift with the depth of cassis, cocoa bean, liquorice, crushed mint leaf, squid ink, crayon, a supremely Left Bank wine, very much in the 2023 vein for me, which was a vintage I adored. This has precision and beauty, the kind of En Primeur sample where you feel fresh and energised at the end of tasting it. 60% new oak for ageing, Pierre Graffeuille director.
97/100 Jane Anson