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La Dame de Montrose 2025

Bordeaux Primeurs | Second Wine of Château Montrose, Saint-Estèphe AC

La Dame de Montrose, made from a second selection of grapes, is a predominantly Merlot wine, supple and silky. This wine was created in 1983 in homage to Yvonne Charmolüe, who alone managed Château Montrose from 1944 to 1960.

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  • France Bordeaux
  • Merlot
    Cabernet Sauvignon
    Petit Verdot
    Cabernet Franc
  • 5 - 15 years
  • 13.70% vol.
Awards and reviews from professionals
  • 94 100
    Jean-Marc Quarin
    Couleur rouge sombre, intense et belle. Nez très aromatique, fin, fruité, mûr et subtil. Juteux à l'attaque, savoureux au milieu, très aromatique, avec une nuance framboisée, le vin s'étire en finale, juteux, long et même noble. Ensemble très difficile à cracher. Assemblage : 82 % Merlot, 10 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 5 % Petit Verdot, 3 % Cabernet Franc. Degré d'alcool : 13°7 - pH : 3,5. A consommer de préférence entre 2035 et 2060. Avril 2026.
  • 94 100
    James Suckling
  • 93 100
    Decanter
    Incredible colour in the glass, bright pink-purple rim. Wild blue and black bramble berries with a salty tangy aspect on the nose – fresh and fragrant. Cool too. Smooth and shiny, this is sleek, really lively and upfront with such a juicy, fresh core. Quite lightly presented – definitely fine, delicate and refined with a soft edge of liquorice and clove. Really quite a hands-off style but there’s power surging through without the muscle. Quite impressive. 3.5pH. 76 IPT. 8% press. Ageing 12 months: 15% new oak, 20% foudre, 5% amphoras and the rest one-year-old barrels. 3% Cabernet Franc completes the blend. Drinking window: 2030 - 2045. Georgina Hindle. April 2026.
  • 93 100
    Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
    Unwinding in the glass with notes of dark berries, fruitcake and spices, the 2025 La Dame de Montrose is medium- to full-bodied, deep and dense, with a lively and layered core of fruit, supple tannins and a bright, sapid finish. It's a blend of 82% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc, incorporating maturation in different vessels (20% foudre and 5% amphora) and fewer rackings to maintain a more reductive profile that is better suited to the Merlot-dominant blend. 91-93/100. William Kelley. April 2026. Montrose is a terroir that takes hot vintages in its stride—witness the extraordinary wines produced here in 1893, 1921, 1929, 1947 and beyond—and the 2025 vintage is no exception. Only the young vines and parts of the Terrace 3 saw any arrested maturation due to hydric stress, and the team adapted their viticulture, removing cover crops earlier and avoiding de-leafing to preserve freshness. Harvest lasted a few days longer than usual, block by block, with macerations lasting 17–18 days, with even fewer interventions than usual since everything came at once and of its own accord.
  • 97 100
    Yves Beck
    82% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc. Filigrane et précis, le bouquet de Montrose signale d'entrée des ambitions qui dépassent explicitement les cases dans lesquelles l'on a tendance à le placer, celle des seconds couteaux, des seconds rôles, alors qu'il a depuis belle lurette adopté une identité qui lui est propre ! L'harmonie olfactive pose les jalons avec sérénité. Les nuances de baies noires fraîches couplées à des parfums de garrigue, d'herbes aromatiques en disent long sur l'application dédiée à la maîtrise des maturités. Les effluves de poivre noir et d'eucalyptus, elles, plébiscitent autant la pluralité que la fraîcheur. L'attaque s'illustre par sa définition super HD ! Les tannins, musclés et compacts, ont du relief et apportent une vigueur parfaitement canalisée, secondée par une acidité incisive qui dynamise littéralement l'ensemble du palais. Un vin cousu-main, profond, élégant et harmonieux. Il impressionne par la sérénité avec laquelle il révèle sa puissance en adoptant un comportement digne d'un grand vin… et justement, c'en est un ! Je pense qu'il faudrait le faire passer au statut de Grande Dame de Montrose. 2030-2050. 96-97/100. Avril 2026.

Features

Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub-region Saint Estephe
Wine type Bordeaux Primeurs
Designation Second Wine of Château Montrose, Saint-Estèphe AC
Grape variety Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc
Alcohol content 13.70% vol.
Cellaring 5 - 15 years
Serving temperature 16 - 18°C
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La Dame de Montrose 2025
Regular price CHF 34.00
Regular price Sale price CHF 34.00
<strong>Colour</strong>
Colour

A beautiful deep dark red

<strong>Nose</strong>
Nose

Bouquet of aromas of peppermint, licorice and black berries.

<strong>Palate</strong>
Palate

Generous attack, tasty and powerful mid-palate, a bit harsh in the finish, even if the taste returns later. Finish of good length. Acid structure gives it freshness. A wine of great beauty!

Château Montrose

Château Montrose

Founded in 1815, Château Montrose and its wine estate were acquired in 2006 by Martin and Olivier Bouygues. The 95 ha vineyard benefits from an exceptional and rare particularity, namely being historically the sole tenant of the cellars and operating buildings around the Château.
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