2009 Château Montrose St. Estèphe Bordeaux France Wine Tasting Note

Everything here is on fire! This is what great wine is all about. Incredibly concentrated, powerful, rich, deep, long, and complex. From the sniff, you should be hooked. But the real star of the show is on the palate, which is completely coated with layer after layer of perfectly ripe, opulently textured layers of black, red, and blue fruits that linger well past the 60-second mark! The seamless finish must be tasted to be believed. This is already just great to taste. But it is in the future where it will achieve its future legendary status. Drink from 2025-2060.

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Full-bodied, powerful and concentrated, the wine clearly takes up a lot room on your palate. Opulent, as well as refined, now, you find an oceanic influence with its saltiness in the tannins. The wine has depth, freshness and perfectly ripe, soft tannins. If you are lucky enough to have a bottle of this gem in your cellar, try to wait another 10 years for it top really start opening up and displaying all of its incredible charms.

This wine is consistently mind-blowing! If your thing is a long, voluptuous, rich, ostentatious, full-bodied, concentrated wine, made from perfectly ripe, velvety, dark fruits, combined with the structure to age, and a unique, showy, combination of intellect and sensuality, with a 50-second finish. this is the wine to own. In another decade, (Which is young for Montrose) this is not only going to show great, it will be looked at as one of the key vintages of Montrose to own!

If wine infanticide was a crime, perhaps I broke the law, but this is stunning, who cares? Even at this youthful stage, the dark, inky hued wine sports a floral, black cherry, licorice and earthy nose resonates. But it's the action on the palate, with all its layers of sexy, voluptuous, opulent fruits that steals the show. If you like 'em young, go ahead and pop a cork. Else, when this stunner hits 20, it should be out of control! I'm going to need to set up a blind tasting with this and the 2009 Cos d'Estournel one of these days, as those wines are reasonable contenders for the wine of the vintage.

This was has hit triple digits from me before, and it just hit that magic mark again! This is so silky, exotic, sultry, long and fresh, it is hard to believe. With layers of concentration, depth and finesse, if you are a fan of Montrose, or just great Bordeaux, this is a legend in the making.

I'm not sure there has been a more consistent performer from this young, but already legendary vintage for my palate. Eech time this has been in my glass, I've been blown away. The level of purity, elegance, sensuous textures and length is remarkable. This is a contender for the best wine from the Medoc. If you do not own this wine, and you've been thinking about it, if you have the cash, what are you waiting for?

Boom, Out Go The Lights! This is off the charts. With mind boggling levels of richness, layers of incredibly, unctuous, perfectly ripe, decadent fruits and a finish that goes well past 60 seconds, this is a definite candidate for future legendary status. This is Cabernet Sauvignon based Bordeaux at its best.

This wine gets better every time I taste it. This could very well end up the wine of the vintage, and that says a lot in an amazing vintage like 2009. With no decanting, the wine is pure, opulent silk that coats your palate, teeth and gums with pleasure. The aromatics are already developing. Incredibly dense, yet balanced, fresh and complex, this is absolutely stunning!

Using 65% Sauvignon, 29% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the wine sports a deep rich purple color. With intense earth, truffle, blackberry, cassis and spice, the wine is palate coating. Picture dense, pure, fresh layers of silky, velvet drenched fruit that will make you a believer. Better than when last tasted, this sublime wine builds and expands for close to 60 seconds! This is one future I regret not buying. This should hit triple digits if it keeps improving as I expect it to.

Opaque in color, coffee, licorice, chocolate, plum, blackberry and ripe cassis in the nose lead to a massive, fleshy, ripe, dense, opulent, mouth filling wine. Fresh, ripe and powerful, the long cassis, blackberry and spicy cassis filled finish remains in your mouth for 50 seconds! Due to the incredible density, structure and concentration found in this vintage of Montrose, lay this down for 15-20 years.

Montrose is dark purple. Aromatics of earth, rocks, cocoa and dark berries are easy to find. Full bodied and massive in concentration, with a wall of polished tannins, this structured wine finishes with a long, mouth filling expression of espresso beans and fresh picked dark berries. This could be the longest lived wine of the vintage. It will take decades to develop. This is the biggest wine from the Medoc in 2009. 95/97 Pts.