Chateau Montrose, Saint-Estephe, France 2009 Las Perdices Punch bowl aromas of berry

Punch bowl aromas of berry fruits and plum are simple and nonspecific but clean and welcoming

smoke and a superior berry tincture

it's a rather powerful

Garnacha Peluda and Cariñena with some 5% white grapes

which is not far off the quality of its much more famous neighbor

Chateau Montrose, Saint-Estephe, France 2009 Las Perdices Punch bowl aromas of berryThe 2009 Chteau Montrose is just pure perfection, and it doesn't get any better. This magical Saint Estphe is still youthful yet offers incredible pleasure in its assorted black and red fruits as well as notes of smoked tobacco, licorice, graphite, and scorched earth. A wine that has always been open and satisfying since release, it's still full bodied and has a broad, expansive, velvety mouthfeel, gorgeous and still present tannins, and a great,