Decanter (2022) 94 / 100

Generous nose filled with sweet blackcurrant fruit. This is dense and impactful, chewy with fine but grippy tannins making their presence known straight away. I love the texture though, it's mouth coating in the best way - refined, with bright berry fruit and liquorice edges, particularly on the finish. Everything feels in balance with plenty going on and lots to like. A blend of 48% Cabernet Sauvignon and 45% Merlot (which is unusual because normally there is a majority of Merlot) with 3% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot. Drinking Window 2023 - 2030

Yves Beck (2021) 94 / 100

Bouquet complexe, de bonne intensité, révélant des nuances fruitées et florales au travers de parfums de violettes, de mûres et de poivre noir. Touche de malt. Belle densité en bouche, excellente symbiose entre la vivacité de la structure acide et la finesse des tannins. Une Dame de Montrose imposante !

RVF 93 / 100
James Suckling (2022) 93 / 100

Juicy and pleasantly chewy with milk chocolate, walnut and currant aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied, creamy and flavorful. Second wine of Montrose. Drink after 2024.

Jeff Leve (2022) 93 / 100

Ripe sweet, dark red berries surrounded by cedar, tobacco wrapper, spice and wet forest aromatics is at work on the nose. On the palate there is more than ample, soft, ripe, sweet, crisp, elegant, earthy red fruits with a spicy touch on the backend to offer loads of pleasure with just a year or two of cellaring. This is a top vintage for La Dame de Montrose for drinking until the Grand Vin has a chance to develop and mature. Drink from 2024-2040.

Bettane & Desseauve (2020) 92 / 100

Couleur généreuse, et bouche en accord, avec une vraie vinosité stéphanoise et un boisé intégré, tout en ménageant plus de souplesse immédiate que le grand vin. Prix justifié.

Le Figaro (2020) 92 / 100

Nez délicat, un peu capricieux mais joli, avec des arômes de fruits bleus et une pointe de chocolat noir. Un second vin sérieux avec de la salinité et de la minéralité. Belle retenue et savoureux équilibre.

Wine Spectator (2022) 92 / 100

Very solid, with a core of lightly steeped plum and blackberry fruit, supported by a streak of iron and framed by smoldering tobacco and dark earth notes. Good energy throughout as well, with a mouthwatering echo at the end. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2023 through 2032. — JM

Vinous (N. Martin) (2021) 91 / 100

The 2019 La Dame de Montrose, which I tasted in June and September 2021, has a fresh mulberry, black plum and granite-scented bouquet that is quite precocious; touches of morel appear in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins, quite structured and almost Pauillac-like, thanks to veins of graphite toward the finish provided by the 48% Cabernet Sauvignon. Saline on the aftertaste, though not tremendously long, this is a very promising Deuxième Vin. 2025-2043

JM Quarin (2022) 91 / 100

Couleur sombre, vive et intense. Nez très aromatique, au fruité mûr. Juteux en entrée de bouche, savoureux au milieu, raffiné au toucher, le vin grandit en finale sur des saveurs d'encre et un profil frais, mais juteux. Bonne longueur à la tannicité enveloppée.

Appellation	Saint-Estèphe
Classement	2nd vin
Encépagement	Cabernet Sauvignon 65 % - Merlot Noir 25 % - Cabernet Franc 10 %
Sols et sous-sol	Grosses graves d’une profondeur variant de 4 à 6 mètres
Elevage	Barriques neuves 50 % durant 19 mois