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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.2 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 34 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Haggis on 3/10/2024 & rated 93 points: This is still young, but I couldn't resist opening one just to see where it is. Loaded with plum, cocoa, with some licorice and a stony/graphite hint. I drank this over 4 days and it was definitely much more open and appealing on days 2 and 3. This is not a "tannic monster," so is quite nice even at this youthful stage. Drink, with a long decant or, preferably, hold for at least 7+ yrs. This will definitely reward patience. (503 views) | | | Tasted by tob100 on 1/1/2024 & rated 97 points: Decanted 3.5 hours in Zalto decanter and poured back in bottle, after that.
Tasted in Zalto Bordeaux glass
The nose:
Beautiful bouquet. Dark chocolate, purple flowers, liqurice, dark stone fruits. You can kind of sniff hos silky the texture is.
The palate:
Same from the nose. Big beautiful bouquet again. Purple flowers with the chocolate, a great combo. Liqurice as well.
The fruits comes secondary on this and when it kicks in so beautiful with Blackberry blackcurrant, plum.
Fresh, vibrant, extremely silky texture, its melting in your mouth.
Tannin medium+
Acidity medium
Body medium+
Its random that I picked this wine for New years, but the level of fruits, the bouquet and the secondary notes matches up perfectly in the wine, to drink at this time of the year. You know, Thanksgiving, Christmas and new years. At least for me.
Not quite done with the development but fantastic at this stage, after a good decant - you just want more and more
95 Points (838 views) | | | Tasted by Maxime0703 on 9/26/2023 & rated 95 points: Nez chocolat et sous bois. Mélange assez intéressant. La signature de ce vin fait penser a à vieux vin en phase de développement mais cela cache en vérité une splendeur et richesse (1267 views) | | | Tasted by KeithAkers on 9/19/2023 & rated 93 points: This was available by Coravin pour in Saint-Emilion. The nose was wide open and powerful with loads of black cherries, crushed rocks, violets, raspberries, kirsch, currants, licorice, cedar, smoke, and some toast notes. The Full bodied feel is big and broad shouldered with medium acidity and youthful, medium+ tannins. This is really hitting its stride right now. This is a bigger boy that has tamed down somewhat, but it will always have that larger quality to it. (933 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 9/18/2023: Troplong Mondot (Bottega Coco): "Served blind.
Vanilla, plums, chocolate, sweet spice. Juicy, freshy, fleshy, plummy, silky tannic burr, rather lovely and well balanced.
This was obviously Troplong and I managed to work out the vintage via a process of elimination." (1380 views) | | | Tasted by cmartinelli on 6/16/2023: Tasted over 2 nights. Opaque purple in the glass, a hint of deep ruby at the rim. On the nose, all the dark notes - chocolate/cocoa, espresso bean, dark cedar. Taste? In a word, overpowering. Pushed to the edge in terms of fruit and sweetness. The characteristics are more like port to me. Is this what people mean by overly extracted? The label says 14.5 but I want to say there's a foreign object involved, brass knuckles or a steel toe. Feels more like one of those 16% bruisers. What I will say is that this does have the structure to go another 5-10, if this is your thing. (1729 views) | | | Tasted by John McCabe on 4/17/2023 & rated 93 points: Had this alongside the '19 which I opened the previous day. The historic house style was quite evident, with plenty of power. Showing pretty well, but like most from the '14 Bordeaux vintage, this may benefit from more time. This was overpriced I think - seems like I paid about $93 after tax, upon release. (1868 views) | | | Tasted by remyworldpeace on 2/21/2023 & rated 93 points: Vertical and Lunch with Chateau Troplong Mondot - Singapore 2023: Nice powerful nose! Fruit, spices and a touch of chocolate. Concentrated yet balanced. Creamy strawberry with some tertiary notes beginning to show.
Like many 2014s, this is drinking very well now but will have a long drinking window ahead. Almost gave this 94pts... (1996 views) | | | Tasted by Cailles on 11/23/2022 & rated 91 points: 20 Vintages of Troplong Mondot: This was a trainwreck of a vertical tasting. An average of meager 86.8 pts, only 6 wines with a rating of more than 90pts. Almost all wines pre 2017 and a winemaker/style change have dried out. Too much extraction and heavy oak treatment produced wines that did not age well, have no fruit and charm left. I don’t have group ratings but the sentiment in the room was similar (this was the fastest tasting ever with this group). It was a root day but that can’t explain everything. Also, the provenance or storage of the bottles was no issue (all bought En Primeur, stored perfectly since). Troplong Mondot seems to be a victim of a series of bad choices, mainly the wrong consultant. Luckily, the future looks brighter.
TN: Fine dark fruited nose, slightly sugary. Best nose so far. On the palate this is ripe but slightly alcoholic. With a good velvety texture, quite round and good. Not as drying out as most others. Others found it very drying though.
(3113 views) | | | Tasted by John McCabe on 5/14/2022 & rated 93 points: This exceeded expectations. I was thinking this might be still a bit tightly coiled and brooding, especially for the vintage which I used to find a bit austere and closed, but things are quite open for business. This has a very bright core of sweet fruit, then shrouded by so much darker notes of forest floor, treacle, maybe oyster shell. This has the classic notes I associate with this producer, having had the '05 and '10 and this was quite impressive and perhaps good value by comparison. 93+pts. (3302 views) | | | Tasted by Yagil on 3/3/2022 & rated 91 points: wine buddies monthly meeting at Adina's (at Adina's): too young, too tight;
requires further aging of 5 years more, at least (3134 views) | | | Tasted by dhwesley on 12/26/2021 & rated 92 points: Very little sediment, limpid purple in color. Direct from the bottle, the nose is already nicely aromatic, fresh and floral; violet, rose. On the tongue, well balanced, tannins are quite evident but not overwhelming; followed by tart cherries and a hint of oak. Nice finish with herbal characteristics.
A few hours of decanting confirms the initial impressions. This is already nicely balanced and well integrated, tannic with a cherry note, a nice finish and a hint of funk, very drinkable now. Nicely complimented a beef tenderloin roast. (2837 views) | | | Tasted by CLL on 3/6/2021 & rated 96 points: Rating transferred from Vivino in Jan 2021 and translated to 100 point scale. (3362 views) | | | Tasted by MJP Hou TX on 1/23/2021 & rated 92 points: Similar notes as last year. Again a Pappas Steakhouse purchase. PNP-plush, ripe and big this time around. Almost too big for me but none the less enjoyable with food. Followed this bottle with a 2016 Gravette de Certan and that was the perfect follow up! (4856 views) | | | Tasted by dnnk88 on 4/22/2020 & rated 91 points: 3rd CB Wine Night - Merlots!: Young still (4222 views) | | | Tasted by Order66 on 4/1/2020 & rated 85 points: I’m not sure what happened with Troplong Mondot. In the old days, this was a wine with power and substance. The 2014 is more “new world-ish” than I’d like. It’s very jammy, with clunky woody scents. Not super sweet but enough to make me double think whether this was Bordeaux or Australia Shiraz-Cabernet. It’s drinkable, but nothing close to Angelus, Gaffeliere or Beausejour-Becot. I’d say drink up sooner than later. (4018 views) | | | Tasted by MJP Hou TX on 1/10/2020 & rated 93 points: Half bottle purchase at Pappas Steakhouse after a wine tasting of VHR 2012 & 2017. Tongue Fatigue with 17 so I need to move to my next favorite region. Right bank BDX
Fantastic bottle considering youth and QPR. Balanced mouthfeel. Lovely nose. MS McDonald thank you for the confirming the pick with enthusiasm! (5469 views) | | | Tasted by Milliontown on 5/1/2019 & rated 93 points: Dark inky red. Plush classical claret fruit profile, all cassis and blackberry jam with background notes of cedar and graphite. Palate is quite fresh and vibrant with pronounced acidity, almost explosive fruit, just bursting with ripe cherry, strawberry jam, blackcurrant. The acid is prominent but I dig it. Helps the sense of minerality and texture. Faint, fine sandy tannins. Some bitterness to finish. (4610 views) | | | Tasted by chatters on 4/30/2019: Working with wine 2019 seminar 1 - Bordeaux (Est. Restaurant, George Street, Sydney): Medium minus intensity aromas of plums, cherry, liquorice, biscuit, a touch of new oak and some mocha. In the mouth it's juicy and fleshy with softly grained tannins which persist hand in hand with the slightly warm, plummy fruit. A little cocoa powder here as well for me, With time in the glass this softens further and becomes more integrated, especially on the palate. Rather lovely. (4035 views) | | | Tasted by dnnk88 on 3/20/2019 & rated 91 points: Creme and cassis bouquet, still seemingly closed. Bitter, blackberries, dark choc, mint, wet rocks on palate. Still young. Fresh with slight edges. Slightly flat on the finish but got better with more time. Nonetheless, a crowd pleaser tonight. Cellaring should do this good - keep it away for 3 - 5 years. (3382 views) | | | Tasted by camdawg on 12/28/2018 & rated 94 points: The first taste was pretty tannic. I can tell this is a very big wine. The tannins obscured the fruit a bit at first, but there's a lot of clean, delicious red fruit.
Along with the fruit, I tasted earth, along with some mint and graphite. I also noticed the wine had a dusty, smoky feel in my mouth.
The wine was better on the second day. The tannins had relaxed and integrated, allowing me to enjoy new blackberry flavors and a silky texture.
The wine is great now, and will likely be top notch with a few years of cellaring. (3447 views) | | | Tasted by jkvedar on 2/21/2018 & rated 91 points: Classic St.Emilion with peppery front palate and round mid-palate. Well-balanced. Food friendly (4230 views) | | | Tasted by BillyT on 11/29/2017 & rated 93 points: I will defer to Jeff Leve comments because they are spot on. So why did I give it a 93 and not a 95 as Jeff did? Well, I think Bordeaux has sold out since 2005 and are making more 'California'sk' wines and not remaining true to their roots. GREAT wine, YES, Bordeaux...well 'New World' maybe but not the Bordeaux from back in the day. This is where scoring wines becomes difficult for me. I loved the wine so do I score it 95 like Jeff or do I impose my characteristic trait requirement of what 'I' think Bordeaux should be and downgrade the score? Don't know but here it is. (3901 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 7/11/2017 & rated 95 points: Deep in color, the wine is round, concentrated and loaded with dark chocolate covered cherries and plums, smoke, licorice and truffle. With depth of flavor, intensity and richness, this is a full bodied effort that will reward a decade in the cellar, before everything really comes together here. (6022 views) | | | Tasted by Millennial Drinkers on 5/13/2017 & rated 92 points: First red wine of the tasting and third wine in flight one for the Bordeaux Master's Class at Heart's Delight.
Deep opaque ruby red. Dark fruity nose with black currants and black cherries. Strong earthiness and stoney note undertones. Heavy tannins (7.5/10) and medium bodied. Sweet spices and dusty on the front end. Followed by a touch of dark cocoa and herbal notes such as eucalyptus. Slatey long finish. Drink till 2032. (4079 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Vinous, Test of Endurance: Bordeaux 2014 Ten Years On (Mar 2024) (3/1/2024)
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Winedoctor, November 2018 (11/1/2018)
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Decanter, Bordeaux tastes of change: Brook's comparison: An excellent St-Emilion, from a vintage of moderation and a vintage of excess (5/29/2018)
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Vinous, Bordeaux 2014: The Southwold Tasting (Mar 2018) (3/18/2018)
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JebDunnuck.com, Let the Good Times Roll: 2015 Bordeaux from Bottle (11/30/2017)
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Decanter, Bordeaux 2014 EP Right Bank & Sauternes (4/12/2015)
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| Château Troplong Mondot Producer website -- Read more about Chateau Troplong MondotRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux)
History of Bordeaux
History of 1855 Bordeaux Classification
"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanLibournais Libournais (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) - Read more about St. Emilion and its wines - Read more about Pomerol and its wines
Saint Emilion Grat Classified Growth, Classified Growths, Grands Crus Classes, GCC
In 1954, while the "Graves" growths had just published their own classification, the wine syndicate of Saint-Emilion, composed by wine growers, brokers and wine traders with the approval of the INAO - Institut National des Appellations d'Origine (A.O.C), decided to work on a classification for the wines of Saint Emilion. Initially, four grades were defined. These were reduced to two - First Great Classified Growth (A and B) and Great Classified Growth - in 1984.
As of Medoc's 1855 historical grading, the Saint-Emilion Great Classified Growth classification is not only based on qualitative criteria by tasting the wines on a ten years period previous to the assessment, but also on commercial considerations such as:
- sales price levels
- national and international commercial distribution
- the estate's reputation on the market
Properties who don't manage to join the club of about sixty Classified Growths are given the denomination of Great Growth ("Grand Cru"), while the remaining wineries of the A.O.C are simply reported as "Saint-Emilion". It is to be noted that the owners must officially apply to appear in the official classification. Thus for example the famous Chateau Tertre-Roteboeuf, whose quality and reputation would easily justify to be listed among the First Great Classified Growths, does not appear here by the will of its owner, François Mitjaville.
The Saint-Emilion Great Growth classification was revised in 1969, 1985, 1996 and 2006. The only two guaranteed vintage (A.O.C) who can apply to the classification are the "Saint-Emilion Grand Cru" and "Saint-Emilion" areas.
By grading 61 properties, the 2006 revision confirmed many growths from the former classification, but also caused a number of surprises and a few inevitable disappointments. Many observers thought that the impressive progression of Perse's Chateau Pavie since 1998 would be rewarded by an upgrade into the First Great Classified Growths (A) category, but finally such was not the case.
Among the estates promoted to the First Great Classified Growths B category are Chateau Troplong-Mondot and Pavie-Macquin, whose efforts made since the Nineties fully justify their new grade. It should be noted that no First Great Classified Growth was relegated to the lower Great Classified Growth class.
Promoted growths from the status of Great Growth ("Grand Cru") to Great Classified Growth ("Grand Cru Classe") are: Chateaux Bellefont-Belcier, Destieux, Fleur Cardinale, Grand Corbin, Grand Corbin-Despagne and Monbousquet.
The demoted growths from the status of Great Classified Growth to Great Growth are: Chateaux Bellevue, Cadet Bon, Faurie de Souchard, Guadet Saint-Julien, La Tour du Pin-Figeac (Belivier), La Tour du Pin-Figeac (Moueix), Lamarzelle, Petite Faurie de Soutard, Tertre Daugay, Villemaurine and Yon-Figeac. If the recent samples of some of the above mentioned properties may justify their current downgrade, there are great chances that estates like Bellevue, Tertre Daugay or Yon-Figeac will be upgraded to their previous rankings by the next revision in 2016 as the progresses noted after 2000, but not entering in the range of vintages (1993 - 2002) appointed for the criteria of selection for the 2006 classification, are noticable.
The two following estates have completely disappeared from the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classification: Curé-Bon-la-Madeleine (integrated meanwhile to Chateau Canon) and La Clusière (integrated meanwhile to Chateau Pavie).
Finally, no estate considered as "garagiste" has integrated the classification. Valandraud, Mondotte, Le Dome, Bellevue-Mondotte or Magrez-Fombrauge have, for the least, the potential to be ranked as Great Classified Growths. In sight of the very fine quality reached by the above mentioned estates in recent vintages as well as all the innovative wine making methods used by the "garagistes", it remains to be seen whether the authorities will dare to cross the line in 2016..?St. Émilion Grand Cru Les Vins de St. Émilion (Syndicate Vitocole de Saint-Emilion) – Read about St. Emilion
Vins de Bordeaux:
Grape Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot
Soil: Sandy soils with alluvial gravel deposits
Surface Area: 4,160 ha |
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