Château Monbousquet Blanc d'Exception
- White
- France
- Bordeaux
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Sémillon
- Muscadelle
- Tracked vintages
- 12
- Community notes
- 50
- Merchant offers
- 6
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 92/ 1002021 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 84/ 10050 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £35per 75 cl2017 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
- Drinking window
- 2023–2030peak2021 vintage
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 6 community ratings (a small sample), read 2026-08-12. Style: Bordeaux White.
- Body4.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Tree fruit · peach, apricot, stone fruit, melon, apple
- Oak · butter, oak, vanilla, caramel
- Earth · honey, stone, minerals, mushroom, petroleum
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, orange peel, lemon peel
- Yeast and lees · cream, oil, cheese
- Vegetal · gooseberry, straw, grass, hay
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon, Muscadelle. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 202192
- 202092
- 201991
- 201892
- 201790£35 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
- 201690unit not stated
- 201590
- 201292
- 201191
- 200890
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2021
- 92 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2021
- peak, window 2023–2030
- Lowest price
- 2017
- £35 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | £35 | 90.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021 |
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