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With
Château Montrose
Featuring Special Guest Lorraine Watrin |
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Nine-Ten Restaurant
7:00pm PDT + Saturday 14 July 2018 |
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14 July 2018
7:00pm PDT
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| Nine-Ten Restaurant
(In the Grande Colonial Hotel)
910 Prospect St
La Jolla CA 92037-4144
www.Nine-Ten.com
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| $225 + tax
Per Diner, All-Inclusive |
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| | | | | Join Spectrum Wine and the iconic Château Montrose for a special, five-course summer tasting menu at acclaimed Chef Jason Knibb's restaurant Nine-Ten within the beautiful Grande Colonial Hotel La Jolla.
With history dating back (at least) to Etienne Théodore Dumoulin's plantings in 1815, Château Montrose has over the centuries come to define the power, grace, and longevity of which the finest wines of Bordeaux are capable.
We will be pouring some of the Château's greatest vintages dating back to the extraordinary 1975 vintage.
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La Dame de Montrose 2015 “A very refined red with berries, chocolate and walnuts. Full body and a round, juicy texture. Spicy and salty. Delicious already.” 94 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com
La Dame de Montrose 2014 “What a nose for a second wine! Lovely cassis and delicately leafy/earthy aromas. It’s a rare beast: a really mineral red Bordeaux. This has excellent balance of ripeness and fresh dry tannins and acidity. Long, clean finish.” 93 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com
La Dame de Montrose 2010 “If this is the second wine of Château Montrose, I’d like to taste the grand vin! This is a delightful wine: the nose offers leafy and red-fruited Cabernet aromas – bright, with a high note of violet. Very stylish on nose and palate, with no sign of a super-ripe year. Lovely wine of real class.” 95 Huon Hooke, HuonHooke.com
La Dame de Montrose 2000 “Beautiful nose of violets and cedar with lovely savory herbs and hints of cassis. This is a delicious wine at its peak with velvety tannins and supple texture. A very pretty wine” 91 Jeannie-Cho Lee MW, WineNote.JeannieChoLee.com
Château Montrose 2009 “. . . this wine seems always open for business, so to speak, much like the great 1982s . . . . Jean Bernard Delmas’s goal was to find perfect equilibrium between freshness and concentration, given its incredible opulence and the voluptuous character this vintage offered. That’s what this wine has in abundance. With an astounding dense purple color, the wine has velvety, sweet tannins, and an extremely open-knit and opulent blueberry, blackberry and crème de cassis nose. There is scorched earth, vanilla and, again, telltale licorice and spice. It is unctuously textured – thicker and juicier than the 2010 and more forward . . . . it has at least 50+ years of aging potential.” 100 Robert M. Parker, Jr, The Wine Advocate
Château Montrose 2005 “Tasted at the vertical in London, the 2005 Montrose came and delivered the goods. This was the best example of the 2005 that I have tasted, perhaps a wine that is going to prove that, the longer wine lovers can resist temptation . . . . The bouquet is extremely detailed, displaying more red berry fruit compared to the 2010 Montrose that leans towards black. Graphite and cedar emerge with time, even an unusual floral scent that is uncommon with respect to this property, whilst all the time retaining fantastic focus and delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with a ferrous tincture on the entry. There are the first signs of secondary notes (dried leaves and bay leaf), but it is the tannic backbone and the precision that really defines this Montrose at the moment. For certain, it is masculine and structured, yet it has enormous potential, perhaps more than was suggested when it was first released? This is for the long term, but you know that already.” 97 Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate
Château Montrose 2001 “This has a very deep garnet core. The nose is very broody and introspective with tightly coiled earthy black fruits, opening to offer limestone, graphite and cooked meat. Good delineation and complexity. The palate is medium-bodied, very classic in style with dry grippy tannins and graphite infused black fruits. Firm backbone, very Pauillac in style with great definition and length on the finish. It has the edge over Cos d’Estournel this year.” 95 Neal Martin, Wine Journal
Chateau Montrose 2000 "Just starting to open, it shows beautiful spices and dark fruit on the nose and palate. It’s full-bodied with ultra-fine, integrated tannins and an extremely complex, refined finish."
96 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com
Château Montrose 1998 “Dark red. Lively. Good intensity. Young. Brilliant. Clean. Average color intensity. Fruity. Fine touches of caramel and licorice. Pure and fine. More powerful. More saline. Soft entry on the palate, very fruity, rounded and savory, developed, medium to full-bodied. The wine evolves toward juicy notes, always close to the fruit and melting in the mouth, with savor and power. It leaves in the finish a beautiful note of ripe fruit with no hard tannins, even if they are present; they are very palate-coating. Beautifully fine wine.” 92 Jean-Marc Quarin, Quarin.com
Château Montrose 1990 “. . . a regal Saint-Estèphe. It shows approximately the same evolution as the 1989 in bottle, but unsurprisingly showed less bricking in magnum format. The bouquet is cut from a different cloth to the 1989 and attests to that warm vintage: hickory, clove, undergrowth and wild fennel, later garrigue-like scents and terracotta, the latter two more pronounced on the bottle format compared to the youthful magnum. The palate is full-bodied and powerful, yet the balance is perfect, a ballerina-like poise with the structure of the Forth Bridge. It is a multi-layered Montrose that offers enormous length, fresh and vibrant with the magnum demonstrating tangible mineralité and tension as it fans out on the crescendo of a finish—a fanfare for Saint-Estèphe in all its glory. Improving all the time in the glass, this example of 1990 Montrose is a privilege to behold . . . . if you do come across the 1990 Montrose like this, you are in the presence of a king.” 100 Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate
Château Montrose 1986 “Wonderful clean berry fruit with currant, light mint and mineral following through to a full, firm palate with long, silky tannins and a mineral, berry and spice aftertaste. Lovely wine. Firm. This is squeaky clean and beautiful. Enjoyable now but better to wait a few years still.” 95 James Suckling, Wine Spectator
Château Montrose 1975 “Dark red. Dense. Black highlights. Slight evolution. Brilliant color. Beautiful. Clean. Very intense, rich and complex. Fruity, woody, and spicy. Quite cool notes. Intense. Shades of tawny yet always fruity with notes of crème fraîche, wood, and liquorice. Good. Clean attack: ample and suave. Has developed a powerful structure of a round, concentrated form which evolves to show its notable balance; tasty, tasty, very complex, fruity, and very spicy, progressing toward a fat finale, with slightly melted tannins, and very long-finishing. Very stylish. Great wine, a bit austere, but racy with indefinitely mouth-puckering tannins.” 95 Jean-Marc Quarin, Quarin.com
Château Suduiraut 1975
"It has a mature bouquet with mandarin, tangerine, orange rind, lanolin and dried honey that lacks sweetness but is very well defined. The palate is beautifully balanced and fresh with quince and orange rind, a touch of honeycomb towards the long finish that seems dry when compared to the more extravagant 2001. Certainly, this is the best Suduiraut of the decade."
93 Neal Martin, Wine Journal |
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