WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 929; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2012 which is 871. 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 2012 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2012 but no other wine from Château Montrose: Fruitiness, Magnificent, Epic, Bilberry, Suppleness, Heft, Imposing, Tar, Tangy, Watering. The wine will be ready to drink in 2 years (in 2020) and should be consumed within the next 17 years (by 2035). 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 Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Palmer 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Giscours 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Branaire-Ducru 2010.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers average value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château Montrose 2012
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-24 |
gbp |
37 |