1970 Château Montrose

Community Tasting Notes (188) Avg Score: 91.0 points

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  4/26/2024 - JonnyG Likes this wine: 92 Points

  The clean cork was easily extracted. The color alone made us very optimistic: medium red, largely opaque, and very little bricking on the rims. There was a lot of must on the nose, which mostly blew off, as did the barnyard aromatics, though some brett was still present on the palate. Nonetheless an inspirational bottle with lots to offer. The wine featured muted red currant notes, some leather, gravel and cigar ash, with ample acid. Quite a treat at age 54.

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  12/16/2023 - cweiss wrote:

  With Paul Welch. Purchase 1973, my last bottle of the case. Low neck fill. Color was amazing for a wine of this age, and would have guessed 1990 or older based on that. The nose had a little bit of dark fruit, a touch of soy, but was muted. There was fruit left on the palate, which was somewhat lean. Acidity provided structure and tannin was resolved.
  All in all, certainly on the downslope, but more than worthwhile.

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  11/11/2023 - The Wine Monkeys Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Amazing how much life is in the tank. Solid structure carrying cassis, a dearth of secondary notes, leather, tobacco, solid tannic structure balanced with nice acidity and finish. Shared over dinner with friends who brought a 75’ Cheval Blanc. The contrast between the 2 was a treat. The Cheval being much more fleshy, soft and round lacking the structure and angularity of the Montrose. Both delicious in their own right and a treat to have them side by side.

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  11/11/2023 - JulianSkeels wrote: 96 Points

  Gorgeous rendition of Montrose with plenty of time left. Lots of new and old leather on nose with gravel and cigar tobacco and surprising amount of fruit (cassis). Medium bodied with lots of tannin - needs 30mins to open up and more acid than usual. With air a gorgeous sweet fruit and beef blood. A perfect match with steak! Drink to 2040(!). 95-96pts

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  9/1/2023 - ankitmehra Likes this wine: 93 Points

  With an ullage that made me think twice about this bottle, the 1970 Château Montrose shattered all expectations I had about the wine. Immediately opening up to a nose dominated by smoke and redcurrants, I was excited at the prospect of fruit being intact in this 53 year old bottle. The wine ebbed and flowed on the palette, though, as glass one had notes of strawberries and redcurrants coming through alongside notes of minerality, mushrooms, herbs and licorice, before glass two had more pronounced tertiary notes of cedar. Glass three saw a renaissance of fruit, albeit it over a shorter finish, but as a whole the wine sustained itself over the course of the bottle making it a tantalizing wine to start the weekend with.

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