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Troplong Mondot 2005 75cl

Grand Cru Classé | St. Emilion | Bordeaux | France
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100 Robert Parker
The 2005 Troplong Mondot is a blend of 90% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc. It was emotional tasting this wine, thinking of the late Christine Valette, who made this compelling wine while battling with considerable courage against an insidious disease. It is a great effort and a superstar of the vintage. Dense purple, it offers notes of white chocolate, blackberry, cassis and licorice as well as a hint of truffle and some subtle background oak. Full-bodied, multi-layered, and spectacularly pure and rich, it is a tour de force, and a great tribute to an incredible woman. Remarkably youthful, this wine probably needs another 4-8 years of bottle age, and should keep for 20 or more years. Kudos to the late Christine Valette!
96 Wine Spectator
Exhibits aromas of coffee, ripe fruit, wild mushroom and blackberry. Dark and very complex. Full-bodied and chewy, yet velvety and beautiful, with intense flavors of blackberry, chocolate and tobacco. Very, very long This is layered and gorgeous. Best after 2016. 6,250 cases made. –JS
18 Rene Gabriel
Dunkles tiefes Granat mit lila Schimmer. Intensives, nach schwarzen Kirschenkompott duftendes Bouquet, intensiv und auch rauchig sowie tiefgründig. Fester, satter Gaumen, erst aussen Schmelz zeigend, dann innen hart zupackend, viel Heidelbeeren in sich tragen und eine verlangende Konzentration mit einer noch fordernden Adstringenz zeigend. Die Frage stellt sich ob das ein ganz grosser, oder wie leider schon zu oft ein ganz harter Troplong ist. Wenn er seine eigenen Tannine verdaut, so ist der erste Teil der Frage bejaht und er legt noch zwei ganze Punkte in 5 Jahren zu! (17/20). 08: Zeigt sich sehr exotisch, fleischig, die Tendenz ist aber aufsteigend. trinken (2011 - 2020)
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Château Troplong Mondot
A ceaseless luminary in Saint-Émilion over the past couple decades, Château Troplong-Mondot continues to validate its relatively new Premier Grand Cru Classé status vintage after vintage. In the northeast of the appellation, there are 33-hectares of vines well-sited along the hills of Mondot, the bulk of which remains Merlot is perfectly reflected in the wine as full, rich, plump and fleshy details. Since the 1980s, Christine Valette and her husband, Xavier Pariente have put in tremendous efforts to better the viticultural and vinification methods used. The fruit is now hand-harvested with meticulous sorting rituals, fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks before the wine is aged in new French oak barriques for 18 months. The results are self-evident, the impressive Grand Vin, Troplong-Mondot is a corpulent but refined Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc Saint-Émilion blend.