WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 947; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2000 which is 889. 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 2000 shares all of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2000 but no other wine from Château Montrose: Unreal, Infantile, Backwardness, Special, Wait, Hickory. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12% vs 12.5%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 2000 (12% vs 12.88%). The wine has been ready to drink for 10 years (since 2008) and should be consumed within the next 22 years (by 2040). 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 Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Margaux 2006, Château Latour 2009, Château Latour 2003, Château Ausone 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Les Forts de Latour 2005.
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, 80% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château Montrose 2000
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-13 |
gbp |
194 |