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
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Merlot
Cabernet Sauvignon
Petit Verdot
Cabernet Franc 5 - 15 years
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13.70% vol.
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94 100Jean-Marc QuarinCouleur 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.
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94 100James Suckling
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93 100DecanterIncredible 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.
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93 100Robert Parker's Wine AdvocateUnwinding 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.
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97 100Yves Beck82% 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
Features
| Country | France |
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| 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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A beautiful deep dark red
Bouquet of aromas of peppermint, licorice and black berries.
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!
Cold meats, meat terrine, pasta stuffed with meat, turkey stuffed with figs, tournedos Rossini, Châteaubriand, grilled Charolais steak, deer saddle, semi-hard cheeses.
Serving temperature: 16 - 18°C
The Château Montrose vineyard extends over 95 hectares in one piece around the Château. On the terraces of the vineyard, we find a gravel soil mixed with sand on the surface and a subsoil, richer in clay, allowing the formation of a natural reserve from which the vines will draw water, deep down. which she needs.
This wine is aged for 12 months in oak barrels (30% of which is new wood).
Cork
Wooden box