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• no oak Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 6, 2022 - Purchased upon release in 1993 for $20/bottle. At that time, the 1990 Troplong Mondot, L'Angelus, and Montrose where the greatest young Bordeaux wines I have ever tasted. A couple of years later, they all shut down.
  
  Now 32 years old, the bottle of Troplong Mondot that we opened had a hint of being a little tired on the nose, but not unpleasantly so since the wine remains aromatic. However, there is a big disconnect between the palate and the nose. The wine is still tannic and tastes much younger than its age. A very pleasant wine to drink, while it has emerged from the closed state, it still does not appear to be at its peak.
  
  Note: another commenter responded to my post that the wine becomes special after a 3 to 4 hour decant. We left the bottle for 5 hours before consuming and my review was based on that. Of course, at this age, there is certainly going to be some bottle-to-bottle and cellar-to-cellar variation.

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3 Comments

• djhammond commented:

  8/9/22, 11:29 AM - This really benefits from extended decanting and bursts into life after 3 or 4 hours in the decanter becoming something very special.

• no oak commented:

  8/9/22, 11:35 AM - Yes, after reading other posts, we decanted the wine for 5 hours. My review is based on a 5 hour decant.

• DickMull commented:

  9/17/22, 6:07 PM - Thank you for this. I also bought a case upon release, and still have 2 bottles I’ve saved, after drinking most of it quite a while ago. Glad to hear no rush to drink them!

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