2024 Troplong Mondot

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

This has the Troplong terroir and intensity visually, immediately clear, with violets, squid ink, slate, roses, liquorice root. Love the chalky oyster shell salinity on the finish, delivers exceptional balance and lift, with interesting texture that is grippy with pumice stone tannins. No chaptilisation, because this is a location with natural density and you really see it here. Brilliantly silky, this has depth and yet is savoury, touch of whole cluster winemaking. 55% new oak, with 19% oak casks and the rest one year old.
95/100 Jane Anson

(Saint-Émilion; 85% Merlot; 13% Cabernet Sauvignon; 2% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 35 hl/ha after very strict densimetric sorting [the vineyard was picked at around 45 hl/ha]; botrytis was the major issue not mildew or uneven floraison; pH 3.38; 13.5% alcohol; 55% new oak and with more foudres replacing the second-fill barrels; tasted with Aymeric de Gironde at the property). This is incredibly impressive and really shows the value of limestone terroirs in a vintage like this. A little introspective at first. Dark fruits of the forest with a certain creaminess, a little black cherry (darker than Mondot), brambles, mulberries and black raspberry. All very pure and pixilated in their detail. One of the most concentrated and compact wines of the vintages with a density in the mid-palate that is very rare. Just a little black currant and that leafiness with aeration, above in the mouth. Crystalline in texture but, unlike many of its peers, this is velvet, not the light silk or cashmere of, say, Clos Fourtet or Beau-Séjour Bécot. One of the greatest successes in a tricky vintage. I love the dark-fruited blackhole core around which the fresh juiciness circulates, releasing eddies and ripples of freshness. Vibrant and energetic. Vivacious. This grows in the glass with more and more black cherry fruit and more and more graphite to accompany it. Big, bold, plump and plush but never austere and not at all over-loaded. This remains wonderfully delineated and with great precision and clarity sustained all the way to the asymptotic finish.
94-96/100+ Colin Hay; The Drinks Business

Deep garnet-purple colored. Needs a lot of shaking to wake up wonderfully pure notes of red currant jelly, fresh blackberries, and licorice, plus hints of cardamom, mint tea, and lilacs. The light to medium-bodied palate shimmers with vibrant red and black berry flavors, supported by fine-grained tannins and fantastic tension, finishing long and minerally. Seriously good!
95-97/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown; The Wine Independent