Château La Mondotte, St Emilion Grand Cru, 2022

Name: Château La Mondotte, St Emilion Grand Cru
Brand: Château La Mondotte
Price: 864 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2022 2023 2024

critic reviews

97/100Chris Kissack,The Wine Independent

This is a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, matured in 40% new oak barrels, with 60% old barrels and vats, for 16 months. A very polished style on the nose, with a darker fruit profile on the nose here, with curranty fruits laced with threads of liquorice, black olive, tar and smoke. There is a broad, sweet, but tightly defined texture on the palate, relaxing in the middle to reveal notes of toasted currants, liquorice and olive like the nose, with the same elegant and powdery backbone of tannins underneath it all. This is beautifully composed, dark and sinewy, but controlled and finessed, the finish riven with deliciously elegant tannic grip. A great La Mondotte here. The alcohol on the label is 14%.

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2063

date of review 06/2025

95/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2022 La Mondotte presents a poised and focused bouquet with blackberry and bilberry fruit, touches of licorice and pencil box notes from the Cabernet Franc. It shows fine delineation. The palate is fresh and taut on entry with a slightly powdery texture, good vigor and a generous sprinkling of white pepper toward the finish that lingers in the mouth. This precise La Mondotte boasts impressive persistence, leaving the tongue tingling 30 seconds after the wine departs.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2050

date of review 02/2025

94/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Fresh flowers of lilies, peonies and roses on the opening aromatics, heading towards cherry pit and rapberry puree fruits, this works within the vintage but gives quite a different expression of it, with nuance and charm. Ludovic de Niepperg winemaker, who previously worked at Harlan in Napa before returning to the family estates. 40% new oak, 45hl/h yield, harvest Septmber 3 to 23. Certified organic since 2014, no till farming since 2022. An estate sat between Troplong Mondot and Tertre Roteboeuf, on silt-sand and clay soils above limestone mother rock, with vines aged between 30 and 60 years old.

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2042

date of review 05/2023

93-95/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2022 La Mondotte is deep and concentrated, unwinding in the glass with brooding aromas of wild berries, licorice, violets and black truffle. Full-bodied, ample and layered, it's deep and youthfully introverted, its concentrated core of fruit girdled by lively acids and sweet, beautifully powdery tannins.

date of review 04/2023