Château Montrose 2025

Critic scores

• Wine Advocate98-100
• Vinous98-100
• Jeb Dunnuck97-100
• James Suckling97-98

The 2025 vintage in Saint-Estèphe

Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched.

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.

Figures from the 2025 sheet

• 13.5 % vol.Alcohol

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.