2009 Chateau Montrose St Estephe Deuxieme Grand Cru Classe from this lot has the following scores - The Wine Advocate 100 points, Jeb Dunnuck 100 points, Jeff Leve The Wine Cellar Insider 100 points, The Wine Independent 100 points. This is the tasting note for 2009 Chateau Montrose St Estephe Deuxieme Grand Cru Classe from Robert Parker - with a score of 100. A brilliant wine that stands out as one of the high points of the vintage, the 2009 Montrose unwinds in the glass with a rich and incipiently complex bouquet of dark berries, cigar wrapper and loamy soil, framed by a deftly judged touch of new oak. Full-bodied, broad and enveloping, it's a velvety, layered and impressively dynamic wine that's deep and concentrated, exhibiting terrific balance and a long, resonant finish. While it is still five or six years away from showing all its cards, I have drunk this benchmark for contemporary Montrose with immense pleasure three times this year. In style, it's hard to find an obvious comparison (and I have drunk Montrose back to 1895), but I would be inclined to invoke a fresher, more complete and more powerful version of the estate's very successful 2003.