2015 Château Montlandrie

Château Montlandrie is owned and operated by Denis Durantou, widely regarded as a “winemaker’s winemaker.” His flagship property is Château L’Eglise Clinet, one of the jewels of the Pomerol, and Château Montlandrie is his boutique property on a 260-foot high plateau in the Côtes de Castillon. The 30-acre Montlandrie has been a wine estate since the 1800s, but Durantou acquired it in 2009. His debut vintage of Château Montlandrie was the 2009. The estate is planted to 65% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon. Château Montlandrie has earned ratings in the low 90s, and has been described by Vinous as “powerful, explosive” boasting “notable depth and intensity.”

Bordeaux is the world’s most famous fine-wine producing region. Even non-wine drinkers recognize the names of Bordeaux’s celebrated wines, such as Margaux and Lafite-Rothschild. Located near the Atlantic coast in southwest France, the region takes its name from the seaport city of Bordeaux, a wine trading center with an outstanding site on the Garonne River and easy access to the Atlantic. Like most French wine regions, Bordeaux’s first vineyards were planted by the Romans more than 2,000 years ago, then tended by medieval monks. Aristocrats and nobility later owned the region’s best estates and today estates are owned by everyone from non-French business conglomerates to families who have been proprietors for generations. Bordeaux has nearly 280,000 acres of vineyards, 57 appellations and 10,000 wine-producing châteaux. Bordeaux is bifurcated by the Gironde Estuary into so-called “right bank” and “left bank” appellations. Bordeaux’s red wines are blends of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec. It also makes white wines of Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle. There are several classification systems in Bordeaux. All are attempts to rank the estates based on the historic quality of the wines.