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Troplong Mondot 2021 37.50cl

1er Grand Cru Classé B | St. Emilion | Bordeaux | France
CHF 49.75
Critics scores
95 Robert Parker
The 2021 Troplong Mondot shows considerable promise, exhibiting aromas of plums and wild berries mingled with notions of sweet spices, rose petals, vine smoke and raw cocoa, followed by a medium to full-bodied, seamless palate endowed with impressive intensity and texture. Built around beautifully refined, powdery tannins and lively acids, it concludes with a long, mouthwateringly saline finish. Macerations here were long but gentle, including a long cold soak before fermentation, and the blend, after much deliberation, is 85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Cabernet Franc. Tasted four times.
Producer
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.