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1990 Château Montrose
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Double blind. Faded crimson red with a bit of bricking. Starts off quite bretty, reminiscent of the old Cordier wines. Red berry fruit underneath the brett. Medium-bodied, with a mix of red and black fruit and a decent bit of funk as well. Finishes with good length. The favorite of all at the table but me. I guessed older Talbot. (DR)
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nose had definite barnyard funk (individual bottles have varied from very clean to Brett dominated), but enough currants, cassis, pencil lead, cigar box to not let the funk overwhelm the other aromatics, solid wine good fruit, long finish
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Nose: Black cherry, blueberry, coca dipped raspberries, spice and licorice. Palate: Gorgeous layers of ripe blue and red fruit, glycerin, cigar tobacco, cedar, baking spices and sappy raspberry. Incredible weight and texture. Finish: penetrating length and deep berry and spice notes linger. Completely eclipsed a prior bottle that I had two years ago. This just had the extra exotic fruit layers, perfume and deep freshness. A wine that sets the mature vintagr standard for this estate.
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The 1990 Montrose is showing so beautifully today, accessible immediately after decanting and showing unwavering class for the next 4 hours until the last drops were consumed. This can be a variably-horsey wine, but 4 of the 5 bottles opened tonight showed beautifully (sadly, one lost to cork). The nose provides a fine entree to this remarkable wine with soft wild raspberry and a slightly horsey character, but it’s on the palate that simply explodes with energy and complexity. Delectably juicy raspberry, camphor, allspice, leather, and cedar intermingle to compose a Montrose that is almost atypically lush and dangerously quaffable. Gorgeous flavors, soft textures, and remarkable depth mark this out as a unique vintage of Montrose in the prime of its life. Picked Sept 14 - Oct 3 64% Cabernet Sauvignon / 32% Merlot / 4% Cabernet Franc 13% ABV
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48x 1990 (37x Bdx, 6x Napa, 5x others) : One of the highlights of the left bank, this Montrose 1990 showed incredibly young, much younger than the other bottles I had in the past two years. Hardly any tertiary development and not yet completely melted tannins and the perfect creaminess the best, more mature 1990s Montrose achieve. Still, this was great to drink with the depth and purity as highlights. 94/95 pts today, which is some steps away from the almost perfect level this wine can achieve. TN: Deep, dark, dense, spicy, herbal. The nose is far away from what Montrose 90 can deliver. With time more open but lots of herbs and minty notes drive the nose. On the palate this is better as it is a bit more open. Superb precision, which is the highlight, so much freshness, minty and herbal notes, a touch of coffee and a dark fruit core. So well delineated. Loads of round, velvety tannins, high but superbly round tannins, nice creaminess which will only get more and better, long lasting finish with fruit, herbs and minerality. Beside some hints of tobacco, this had almost no tertiary notes. So much life left. Decanting: Quick double decant roughly 3 hours before the tasting. As is true with the 1989, this 1990 usually needs many hours in the decanter to shine. I think this bottle would have been better with 4-5h decant.
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Great color, has earth like flavors with a lingering finish
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I almost poured it down the drain when I opened it because I thought it was overwhelmed by Brett. But no, it cleared up miraculously and was perfectly clean a few hours later after double decanting. It’s a beauty. Almost luxuriously fruity and at a wonderful state of maturity. Indistinguishable from a fine Pauillac with its slight ink and undergrowth. Not too tannic or acidic. WOTN for some of us at least.
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It is nearly perfect , maybe the longevity is the not anymore what it was , it’s ok but it will fade away after 10/12 seconds, but for a wine that is 32 years old , it has a incredible balance , Color , nose and mouth are one , it is silk , nothing that would think the wine is already going down, I did open it and decand it straight away and even after one hour it was still holding strong !! In the nose a had some terroir with chalk and nice old cabernet ! In the mouth some cherry with no sweet , but the wine is still sharp Really nice , I drunk this wine many times and it was still a monster , but it came from a very powerful wine in the nine tees and to a very classy great bordelais know ! To cherish !
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Had the ‘89 last night. The fruit is more dominant in this vintage; the other showed more savory elements. Black cherry liqueur, minced habanero pepper, wet earth.
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stunning bottle exhibiting burnt sugar, wet hay, and earth.
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1966 – 2010 Château Montrose vertical (Regional Wines, Wellington, NZ) : Served single blind, one pour. Varieties: CS 64% | M 32% | CF 4%. A magical bottle. I have heard about good and bad bottles of the 1990. On the night, we definitely had one of the good bottles. Velvet colour with garnet highlights. A more evolved nose than the three or four wines before it, with notes of dried herbs, warm earth, preserved berry fruit, cinnamon and other spices, pipe tobacco, old leather, mushrooms and hints of truffle. Complex and aromatic. A lovely sweet fruited entry to the palate. Then structure and power followed by mellow, savoury complexity. An array of notes including cedar, cigar leaf, tilled soil, brown spices, dark fruit, graphite and old leather couch. Fully ripe, melted and soft tannins. Rounded but dense and concentrated. Very long. A beautiful and profound fully mature Bordeaux but with the matière for good bottles to probably drink well for another two decades. The 1990 though divided the room. Eight tasters had the 1990 as their top or second wine of the tasting but four had it as their least with nine suggesting brettanomyces. I saw threshold brett but at a level that, if anything, added additional savoury nuance to the wine and therefore was a positive, not a negative. 97+. Rankings: Me 3/12 | GK 6/12 | CT 1/12.
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Deep healthy garnet/rubyish color with some brightening up and bricking towards the rim. Explosive, deep and authoritative, with notes of cedar wood, leather, tobacco, deep dark and red berries, truffle, sous-bois/underwood, also some cigar smoke, sweet spices (cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon), licorice, a touch of smoke, just a hint of barnyard, the fruit is building up and getting a little darker (like cassis, black currant, blackberries) with some more air. And then there is the structure of medium+ tannin that is perfectly silky and smooth, there is also some medium- acidity adding some freshness too. Extremely long finish, the wine literally lingers around for almost a minute. What an incredible Bordeaux, an epic bottle that is just at the early stage of showing everything and probably has another 20 years ahead. One of those moments in which you just want to stop time and hold on to the moment for as long as possible.
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WWC - JD (FWC) : Tasted blind - in a lineup of four 30+ year old bordeauxs, the nose on this one shined. Some bricking, but still generally bright and deep in color, with some sediment. Slight medicinal (cherry medicine) on the nose and palate, but generally beautiful red fruit flavors, with some leather and earth in the background. Perfectly integrated tannins and acidity. This wine was fantastic today. Guessed a 20+ year old bordeaux, cab based.
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Impressively, this bottle was even better than the last, providing one of the very best tasting experiences of my life. There was no hint of brett in this bottle at all, which came out with a perfect cork and great fill. Lovely nose of lead pencil, tobacco, barnyard, cedar, and cooking spices. They should make a candle that smells like this wine. The palate was explosive yet refined, with pure red and black berries, tea, nutmeg, dark chocolate. This was at its glorious apogee after 3 hours in the decanter, showing no signs of fading and maintaining an incredible finish for what seemed like minutes between sips. We should all be so lucky to drink like this all the time, but only having this every once in a while makes it that much more special.
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blind This is a monster. Massive, juicy with still black currant nose and ripe tannins. Pencil and cigar box but with dark berries in the background. Doesn't reach his peak. 97
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We were lucky and had one of the “Dr. Jekyl” bottles. Decanted for 2 hours and got better over dinner. Agree with other notes in that it is loaded with ripe black fruit, pencil shavings with hints of leather and tar. The only thing preventing the 1-2 more points is the finish is slightly less than other bottles we have had (‘86 Mouton, 03 La Turque). A great bottle.
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A clean bottle! The issue with this wine is, will you open Jeckyl or Hyde? The worst bottles are filled with TCA. However, the best bottles and this was one of the best bottles are a thrill-a-sip experience. There is an incredible level of intensity that is packed with Asian spice, Cuban cigars, cedar chest, forest floor, currants, smoke, tobacco, and oceanic influences. Full-bodied, long, structured, and displaying the patina of age that has softened its once fierce tannins, replacing them with a regal textured, fruit and earth packed wine, the finish builds and expands for at least 60 seconds.
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I'm not sure if I even want to drink this. The nose is ah-ma-zing. Black truffle, pipe tobacco, fig, earthy red fruit tart. Smooooth finish. This is rreeeeally easy to drink and was an afternoon highlight. About as funky aged Bordeaux as I can take, and this one was a home run.
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Tasted blind. Garnet with brick rim. Aromas of elevated intensity, cedar, tobacco, mint, much more. Obviously Bordeaux, obviously high quality, obviously mature. On the palate, elevated spicy acidity, long fine-grained soft tannins, medium body and alcohol under 14°. Long and layered. Left Bank, 1990, I said. The mint threw me, and I didn't take it to St-Estephe. Drinking very nicely indeed.
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A bit green and rusty out of the bottle, but that started to blow off after 15 minutes or so and very nice ripe fruit presented itself in its place. Not sure if it's a perfect bottle, but it's still quite nice. Fast Forward an hour. Woah... what a difference a bit of air can make. All of the funk and green blew off entirely and what's left is a close to perfect wine. So good!
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Glorious wine. Took a minute to open up, but it really blossomed. Aromas of leather, tobacco, prunes, creme de cassis, cherry jam, cedar, thyme, eucalyptus, mint, myriad brown spices, damp dark soil... truly velvety, very full in body, quite heavy really, sweet and ripe, broad and rich, rather confectionary on the mid-palate but the finish is plenty fresh and extraordinarily long. This really lingers. I should imagine it is pretty much mature, but it had a youthful fruit element, so maybe it will continue to develop in a positive way. In any case, it is far from tired and will surely be worth following many many more years. What a privilege!
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Second Sunday Group: 2002 Burgundies (R&D's) : Opens with a dried straw overtone, with currants and iron underneath. Medium-bodied, with flavors of red fruit, straw and leather. Medium finish. (FK)
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Po's 1990 Bordeaux Dinner (La Trompette, Chiswick) : Bottle #2. Youthful, blackcuurant fruit, cedar, touch of gravel. Medium/full bodied, quite mouth-filling with lovely presence, dark fruit, spice, mineral, fresh acidity, quite long too. Lovely, no hurry
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Po's 1990 Bordeaux Dinner (La Trompette, Chiswick) : Bottle #1 (smoke damaged). Had an odd, rotten seaweed aroma which was difficult to get past. A bit better on the palate but certainly not what it should be. NR
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Po's 1990 Bordeaux dinner (La Trompette) : Seemed much more typical and what we'd have expected than the first (likely heat-affected) bottle. Solid, a touch of Brett, still some tannin noticeable on the gums after drinking it. Smoke, truffle and purple fruit. Excellent wine, but not as exciting as I suspect this wine can be (perhaps because it wasn't decanted, being a back-up).
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Po's 1990 Bordeaux dinner (La Trompette) : Heat-affected and seemed off. I got an airy, mentholated scent that then became reminiscent of Chinese food, but others got stagnant pondweed, and others still actually enjoyed it...!
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Po’s 1990 Bordeaux (La Trompette, London) : Bottle 2. Not dissimilar on the nose, though perhaps a little more giving initially. A rubbery top note emerges though that’s hard to get past. It does open nicely without shedding its dense ness, but there are signs of it starting to give. Cool and composed and still a little surly with that lingering sense of rubber. ****
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Po’s 1990 Bordeaux (La Trompette, London) : Bottle 1, a touch of smoke damage. Very flat on the nose. Similar on the palate initially. Compressed and monolithic.a pinch of spearmint on the finish with gingerbread on the nose, tempered by pine sap. A little mote open and interesting cf bottle 2, though I think the majority view was the other way round. ****
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deep black with bricking on the rim - agree with other notes that the black cassis fruit just bursts out of the glass without any coaxing - some tertiary aromas of graphite and tobacco, but not prominent in the nose - beautiful mouthful of dense black fruit with superb fruit-acid balance - ripe velvety tannins still very much in presence - long 30-45 sec finish - this wine is drinking beautifully now, but should develop even more with additional time - confirms my opinion that Montrose takes at least 30 years to come into its optimal drinking window (but then will hold there for another 20-30 years)
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I had a great experience with ithis wine at my favorite restaurant with my favorite person. The color was medium garnet at its core, with a brick red meniscus and showing medium+ on viscosity. Nosing it undisturbed in the glass revealed notes or cigar box, eucalyptus, dusty gravel and preserved plums. Upon swirling the wine went on to further reveal layers of game, dried flowers, ocean breeze and prunes. On the palate the wine showed a high level of refinement yet clearly retained some of its youth. The acidity remained fresh, but the tannins were almost fully resolved, silky with a “pull” that was ever so slight. Alcohol and finishing were medium+ and complexity high.
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tout simplement fantastique! jeune et vieux à la fois, puissant, long, complexe, un nez incroyable!
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Impossible pour moi de le différencier du 1989 bu 1 semaine avant, très similaire, les 2 fantastiques.
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1990 Champagne / Bordeaux / N Rhone (London) : My third time with this wine this year and consistently a great bottle. Today side by side the BD90 it initially had to fall in line and was viewed as slightly less interesting by the table. I agreed but felt that when the bottles came around again a few hours later it really came into its own and was such an archetypical pitch perfect classic 1990 left bank that I would be putting my money on this one longer term.
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17x Bordeaux 1982-1990 (+ 2 Martha’s) : All wines tasted single blind. It’s a privilege to taste the two legendary Montrose vintages 1989 and 1990 side by side. On this evening the 1990 (96 pts) edged out the 1989 (95 pts) by a small margin. The 1990 was more open and more round on the palate than the 1989, which usually needs a a lot of time and air to sing (better on day two). For both wines, this was not their best self as they can be more mature, softer and expressive. These Montrose are quintessential, classic Bordeauxs and truly outstanding. TN: A tad less expressive on the nose than the 89 but more open, complex on the palate with sweet yet pure red and mostly dark berries, tobacco, wet forest floor, dry earth, leather, mint. All those tertiary and earthy notes are well balanced by the sexy sweet fruit core. All aromas are delivered in HD. The best bottles of the 90 show even more complexity and more mature aromas. The structure is impeccable with very fine tannins, a beautiful soft texture with a nice creaminess to it and a good freshness. The finish is long and shows sweet fruit and tobacco. Decanting: Decanted for roughly 4 hours. More wouldn’t have hurt. Group score: 96.1 pts Group rank: 2nd out of 16 reds
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Impecable bottle stored in my cellar since release, mid to low neck fill, excellent cork. One hour decant. Dark red color. Tremendous nose comes firmly out of the glass. Not a blast, rather a strong, yet subtle persistent smooth flow. Dark and red fruit with great depth of secondary and tertiary notes, beautiful smoke and oak, saddle leather, spice box and tobacco. Very complex. Powerful, yet refined. Tannins smooth and reduced, yet still present.Plenty of life left in this beauty. Long, long finish. A memorable bottle of wine. Extrordinary!
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A truly great showing here outclassing easily a LLC 90 (which to be was not a perfect bottle). Scintillating lavender on the nose, and then this powerful never ending 1990 Bordeaux fruit on the palate. Shame the wine was served a bit too warm which held it back for me from being scored even higher...
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15 Mature Bordeauxs Magnums (with Heitz MV in the mix) : From magnum. My clear #1 of the tasting, no doubt. Montro
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