2014 Château Troplong Mondot

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  3/10/2024 - Haggis Likes this wine: 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.

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  1/1/2024 - tob100 Likes this wine: 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

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  9/26/2023 - Maxime0703 wrote: 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

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  9/19/2023 - KeithAkers wrote: 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.

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  9/18/2023 - chatters wrote:

  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."

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