Tasted at the chateau, the 1958 Montrose is an off-vintage that Robert Parker praised during his vertical in 2014, so I was eager to see how it showed. It certainly has retained an attractive bouquet with vestiges of red berry fruit, algae, candied orange peel and leather. It actually seemed to grow in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin. There is much more weight and presence here than I was expecting, plenty of dark berry fruit mixed with iodine and sage. To criticism this wine, it does seem to run out of idea about three-quarters of the way through and as a consequence, the finish feels rather one-dimensional and more how you would expect a 1958 Left Bank to perform after 58 years. Still, it would not surprise me if better bottles are out there, such as the one tasted by Robert Parker. Tasted September 2016.
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