12/7/2020 - Saint-Exupéry Likes this wine:

Open and accessible like most St. Émilion from 2012. Medium intensity aromas of plums, cherry and a touch of new oak. In the mouth it's juicy and fleshy with softly grained tannins. With time in the glass this softens further and becomes more integrated. While certainly fairly modern in style, there is ample balance and the wine is easily identifiable as right bank Bordeaux. A good vintage for Troplong Mondot. Drink from now on until 2030.

10/7/2014 - eboracum wrote:

IIRC this is the first Palette I have consumed from a producer other than Chäteau Simone. Colour was a quite dense red. Nose was quite subdued at first but with some airing released aromas of damson style plum infused with wet leather and hints of spice. On the palate I would not attribute this, blind, to a region from so far south nor to its cocktail of grape varieties. It was medium/full bodied with a quite savoury and fresh character with more lively and tangy acidity and sharper focus than I expect from this latitude. Dense fruit with a damson character and wet leather was confirmed and there was a firm tannic structure leading to a decently long finish. I do not know how far this non-Mediterranean showing is attributable to the northern exposure and how much to the vintage, which in close-by southern Côtes du Rhône produced much slimmer and fresher wines than usual which, in the best examples, enjoyed IMO much finer aromatics than in warmer years. I guess than there is more development potential here. Good with + potential.