80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc 18 months of aging for Montrose (including 60% new oak). What depth, intensity, and purity in Montrose 2024. Marked by subtle notes of elderberry, blackcurrant, and blueberry, the bouquet is positioned with elegance, clarity, and serenity. We will also note a floral touch, respectively a floral vegetal, which supports not only the freshness but also the complexity. Dense and slightly suave on the attack, the wine is carried by fine-grained tannins that confer not only power, but also precious life capital in a notion of aging... and there is enough for several decades. Solid, linear, and exciting, Montrose directs its power with tact, relevance, and sovereignty! A wine that clearly positions itself ahead of the vintage, or rather above it: it soars above it, brilliantly, serenely, with excellence in its sights. If the fruit could also be more insistent on the finish, we would be reaching the Holy Grail. Maturation and time could contribute to this. What exciting prospects! 2032-2064 - Yves Beck

Château Montrose (St-Estèphe; 80% Cabernet Sauvignon; 17% Merlot; 3% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 38 hl/ha; around 15% vin de presse; IPT 77; organic certification will come this year; tasted at the property with Vincent Decup). Sourced exclusively from Terrace 4, the first part of the property to be planted well before the classification. Tasted just after Terrace III, it is difficult to imagine that this could be better. It is. Even more intense in its florality. Again, wisteria and now with a little iris too. Many wines of the vintage have a bulby character to their florality. Not here. This is all about the petals. It’s very delicate. There’s a hint of violet too but it doesn't overpower the more subtle floral notes that feel very natural and that take the limelight. Graphite and deep dark berry fruits on the palate – black berries, brambles and mulberries. A little red cherry. The fruit profile is rather more familiar than for the Terrace III wine. There’s more gravitas, depth and profundity too. The wine also seems to gather more towards the bottom of the mouth and has more amplitude in its depth. It’s a little more serious but never austere. I love the contrast. The left-bank wine of the vintage. - Colin Hay