Saint-Estèphe · vintage 2024
Why this vintage
- 96-97 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2024 vintage in Saint-EstèpheA rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.
Critic scores
- James Suckling96-97
- Jeb Dunnuck94-97
- Vinous94-96
- Wine Advocate93-95
The 2024 vintage in Saint-Estèphe
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.
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
Château Montrose 2024 finds its ultimate expression at Terrace 4, its original terroir. It is distinguished by its exceptional energy and great complexity. Its nose combines blackberry, blond tobacco and graphite. On the palate, the approach is dark. The wine turns out to be round, silky, chiselled, with impressive amplitude. The tannins, powerful and precise, create a structure of great elegance, with a finish that stretches to infinity, like a wave carried by the lace of the grain.
Blend of the 2024 vintage
- 80 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 17 % Merlot
- 3 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2024 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 2024 sheet
- 250,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Vatting for 3 weeks in thermo-regulated steel vats - Frequent pump-over - Malolactic fermentation in vats
Ageing
16 to 18 months in French oak barrels (60% new) - Fining with egg white
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 2024
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 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.