Why this vintage
- 100/100 from Wine Advocateand 5 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2022 vintage in Saint-EstèpheThree heatwaves and extreme drought gave, against all odds, wines of exceptional concentration without harshness — the great sun-drenched year.
Critic scores
- Wine Advocate100
- Vinous100
- Jeb Dunnuck100
- James Suckling99
- Wine Enthusiast97
- Wine Spectator96
The 2022 vintage in Saint-Estèphe
Vintage benchmark: 98/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Three heatwaves and extreme drought gave, against all odds, wines of exceptional concentration without harshness — the great sun-drenched year.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Estèphe. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
The first nose is surprisingly open, intense, complex and frank. We find subtle aromas of jasmine and Morello cherries. When breathing, mentholated, pomaded notes, then aromas of blond tobacco, spices (pepper), baskets of red fruits (blackberries) emerge. On the palate, the attack is frank, fresh and invigorating. The mouth widens very quickly in the middle, to become suave and saline. The tannic structure is powerful but contained in a velvet glove. The final, persevering, does not diminish in intensity and tirelessly plays this same precise singular musical score. The 2022 Vintage is the expression of the Montrose vibrant energy harmoniously tamed.
Blend of the 2022 vintage
- 66 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 25 % Merlot
- 8 % Cabernet Franc
- 1 % Petit Verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2022 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2022 sheet
- 14.5 % vol.Alcohol
- 31 hl/haYield
Terroir
This is a 95 ha vineyard in a single block, something extremely rare in the Médoc, planted on a very well exposed gravel rise on the banks of the Gironde. The vineyard thus overlooks the estuary. The proximity of this considerable stretch of water, known locally as the river, has a very moderating climatic effect on the vineyard. The river softens and tempers the rigours of the climate. This proximity to water and to the tides eases the severity of winter cold and moderates excessively hot summers. The name Montrose is said to derive distantly from the wild heather moorland that once covered this slope, whose pretty wine-lee colour is well known.
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Texts and documents 2022
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 28, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.