Community Tasting Notes 7

• StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 17, 2023 - Troplong Mondot: 1959-2012 (Stockholm, Sweden): Semi-blind (knew which 17 vintages that were being served).
  
  Dark colour.
  
  light oxidative aromatics, but youthful. Felt like the youngest wine in this flight.
  A well-balanced wine but a bit over on the thinner side of things. Tannins are chewy in a good way. Cassis, iron (blood), ginger, black tea, fresh vegetables, lukewarm cola-flavored gummies.
  
  2 hours later: More rich, PHAT and the tannic structure is even stronger than before. (Makes you wonder what a monster this must have been in the early 60'ies!!!) Nothing to suggest this is a very old Bdx.
  
  My guess: 1983
  What a youthful beauty! Wow!

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• fcxj wrote: 88 points

  February 8, 2018 - 1959 dinner. Clean look with only slightly detracting nuttiness.

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• Alex H wrote: 92 points

  June 5, 2015 - The wotn for the troplong vertical. This is beautifully and gracefully aged. Clean bright glowing red fruits that is almost burg like lithe but of cos this still displays all the rich round plumpish merlot dominant right bank characteristics. However this has now developed all sorta of interesting cigar , tobacco leaves seeped in aged puer tea notes. Some sweet fresh leather , fresh mushrooms earth and finishing with Darjeeling.

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• William Kelley Likes this wine: 89 points

  January 9, 2015 - The 1959 Troplong Mondot is still very youthful, with a saturated ruby-black hue, and there is no hurry to drink it up. The nose is a blend of quite plummy, figgy black fruit with some top notes of chocolate and herbs. On the palate, the wine is rather rustic, with massive volume but some rather coarse tannin: as if made from fruit of widely varying maturity, some over-ripe, some under-ripe. The overall impression is rather rustic, and the '59 probably ranks somewhat behind the '61 and '64 at this address, although I begin to think the estate is simply not a very interesting terroir to begin with.

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• therussianalias wrote: 89 points

  December 17, 2014 - "Licorice and rancid milk chocolate," said Mark Savage, who generously brought this wine to dinner. To me the nose suggested power and extraction, which were confirmed on the palate by some resilient stringy tannins and, dare I say it, some dark-chocolate astringency. The savoury palate lingered like cigar smoke, with hints of tar as the finish wore on.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1959
• Type Red
• Producer Château Troplong Mondot
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru

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• In Cellars 7 (64%)
• Consumed 3 (27%)

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