2019 La Dame De Montrose 3000ml

94 POINTS

Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast

The second wine of Montrose is seriously structured with dark tannins. It has impressive weight and concentration, a big wine while polished appropriate for this estate. Drink from 2025.

94 POINTS

Jane Anson - Decanter

The Merlots were so good this year that most have gone into the first wine, giving this a higher percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon than usual and making it a serious Dame de Montrose, with clear ageing potential. Elegant and balanced, with purity and juicy black fruits. It has that savoury Cabernet quality which is very Médocain, this is absolutely one to look out for, packed with estate signature. 30% new oak. 43% of total production. 4% Petit Verdot completes the blend. Lovely new label here also, with rose gold roses across it.

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Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

52% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot. Perfume, red and black fruits, plum, a distinctly stony thing happening here. It has a certain juiciness to it, but it’s also inky and ferrous, nutty, fleshy, and long. It’s such a charming wine. Lighter than the Montrose from the same vintage, and quite different in character, and so lovely to drink. It puts me in mind of the 2010, certainly in terms of quality, and that wine really blossomed with some bottle age.

93 POINTS

Peter Moser - Falstaff

Dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, subtle brightening on the rim. Animal touch, a hint of brettanomyces, black cherries and blueberries in the background. Medium complexity, subtle sweetness in the texture, firm tannins, saline minerality on the finish, a spicy food wine, soft notes of nougat on the finish.

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James Suckling

Juicy and pleasantly chewy with milk chocolate, walnut and currant aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied, creamy and flavorful. Second wine of Montrose. Drink after 2024.

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Neal Martin - Vinous

The 2019 La Dame de Montrose has an open, fresh and energetic nose with blackberry and cedar scents, joined by black pepper and graphite with time. You might describe it as a "strapping" bouquet. The palate is medium-bodied with graphite-infused black fruit, pliant tannins, edgy with a persistent and satisfying finish. This is very promising and quite sophisticated - a Deuxième Vin that has improved since bottling. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.

91 POINTS

Neal Martin - Vinous

The 2019 La Dame de Montrose, which I tasted in June and September 2021, has a fresh mulberry, black plum and granite-scented bouquet that is quite precocious; touches of morel appear in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins, quite structured and almost Pauillac-like, thanks to veins of graphite toward the finish provided by the 48% Cabernet Sauvignon. Saline on the aftertaste, though not tremendously long, this is a very promising Deuxième Vin.

90 POINTS

William Kelley - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2019 La Dame de Montrose is a touch richer and more giving than its 2016 counterpart, delivering aromas of dark berries, cherries and plum liqueur along with licorice and petals. Medium to full-bodied, supple and fleshy, it's velvety and expressive out of the gates, reflecting the dominant presence of ripe Merlot in the blend.