Andy Frieden, JJ Buckley, April 2011

64% cabernet sauvignon and 36% merlot. 20% new oak. This wine represents 36 percent of total production with average yields at 45hl/ha and average vine age of 20 years. Harvest began on Sep 27 with merlot and ended on Oct 15 with cabernet. 13.7% alcohol. Restrained power but shows its elegance with layers of aromas wrapped around a core of black and blue fruit with a perfume of crushed flowers. Blackberry and cassis fill the attack, which builds to a peak of black raspberry, and the finish is pretty and long. The tannins are a bit more open and broad shouldered and will need some time before the drinking window arrives, probably 3-10 years.

91 -92 points,

James Suckling, jamessuckling.com, April 2011

The finesse in this wine is impressive for a second wine with wonderful polish. The finish is very beautiful. 64% Cabernet Sauvignon and 36% Merlot.

Jancis Robinson, April 2011

64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 36% of total production. Very deep crimson. Lovely scented top note and then sumptuously round texture. Fresh and lively with good muscles. Excellent balance and really very flattering without being overripe or sweet. It finishes dry and minerally. Fine skeined. Really a very fine wine indeed - well done! Provided you don't mind a lack of flesh in the middle...17 out of 20

90 -92 points,

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, March 2011

Tasted at the Château, the La Dame represents 36% of total production and is a blend of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon and 36% Merlot. It demonstrates great purity on the nose, a floral note that I have not encountered on La Dame before (perhaps more feminine in keeping with the name?) The palate is very smooth and refined, silky in the mouth with succulent blackcurrant and cassis towards the finish that belies some fine tannins underneath. It is just...delicious now and one hopes, in bottle. Drink 2013-2020. T

94 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, March 2013

One of the best second wines, and possibly the best since the 1990 is the 2010 La Dame de Montrose. This represents 36% of the production and is a blend of two grapes - 64% Cabernet Sauvignon and 36% Merlot. A superb second wine, opulent and substantively textured, it shares more in common with a flamboyant, exuberant year such as 2009 than most 2010s. Dense purple, its oodles of fruit, luxurious mouthfeel and terrific finish make it a sleeper of the vintage. It's a wine to buy in abundant quantities and drink over the next 10-15+ years. Although Jean Delmas remains a consultant at Montrose, he has yielded his primary responsibilities over to a younger staff, but he still believes the 2010 Montrose is one of the all-time great wines ever produced at this estate, equaling or exceeding the quality of the 1929, 1945, 1959, 1961, 1989, 1990 or 2009. --Robert Parker

93 points,

Wine Enthusiast, May 2013

Montrose's second wine has something of the same gravity as the top wine from the estate. It shows firm tannins as well as black currant fruits. These flavors are followed by spice, leather and drying tannins. It does have a sense of elegance that promises well for its mid-term aging, -R.V.

91 -94 points,

Wine Spectator, March 2011

Bright damson plum, cherry and black currant fruit races along in this invigorating red, with mouthwatering acidity and a superfresh, iron-filled finish that has a nice rapier feel. Sleek and long. -J.M.

About Winery

The second label of Chateau Montrose, La Dame de Montrose is an excellent buy, showing both the hallmarks of the St. Estephe region as well as the Chateau. <

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