Château Troplong Mondot, 1er Grand Cru Classé, St Emilion, 2003

Name: Château Troplong Mondot, 1er Grand Cru Classé, St Emilion
Brand: Château Troplong Mondot
Price: 1244.66 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

Always one of St Emilion’s most dense and structured wines, Christine Valette has fashioned a big-framed, chunky 2003. Explosive dark chocolate, liquorice and black cherry aromas. Meaty, extravagant blackberry flavours, solid tannic structure

critic reviews

94/100Robert Parker,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Troplong Mondots 2003 is a brilliant success in this vintage, largely because of the limestone soils and incredibly low yields. There are nearly 70 acres of vines in production, yields were tiny, and the harvest was early. Nevertheless, there is an opulence and youthfulness in this wine that suggest it has at least a decade of life left. A luxurious effort with high glycerin, loads of blueberry, mulberry, black currant, licorice and charcoal ember-like notes, full body, low acidity and sweet tannin, this beauty is close to full maturity and can be drunk now as well as over the next decade.

DRINKING WINDOW 2014 - 2024

date of review 08/2014

92/100Stephen Tanzer,Vinous

Red-ruby. Sappy aromas of very ripe redcurrant, tobacco and minerals. Fat, sexy and deep, with flavors of redcurrant, plum, tobacco and spice lifted by the wine's mineral component. Wonderfully rich, full-blown wine, finishing with serious toothcoating tannins that call for at least four or five years of patience. This is close to 14% alcohol, but even this vintage of Troplong-Mondot has more acidity than the 1990.

date of review 05/2006