WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 935; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1996 which is 879. The average score for Château Montrose is 890, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Montrose they use words like Full, Fruit, Tannins, Deep, Purple, Fine, Ripe, Black, Cherry, Tannin, Power, Concentrated, Elegant, Cassis, Powerful. The 1996 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1996 but no other wine from Château Montrose: Underbrush, Soil, Loamy, Irregular, Saddle, Jammy, Glycerin, Hefty, Delineated, Sugar. The wine has been ready to drink for 9 years (since 2009) and should be consumed within the next 7 years (by 2025). It normally takes wines from Château Montrose around 9 years to be ready to start drinking, and 19 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Latour 2003, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2009, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Margaux 2006; but better value alternatives would be Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Palmer 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very low value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
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Prices & Deals for Château Montrose 1996
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-31 |
gbp |
350 |