1999 La Mondotte

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  9/24/2023 - Canoehead Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Aged Reds Dinner - Savoury Roast Pork Tenderloin with mushroom ragout, rice pilaf and sautéed green peas and leeks. Decanted for almost two hours and the funkiness on the nose was refusing to yield and let the fruit shine through. Probably a bit of Brett lingering. Finally, in the glass and on the palate the wine was stable and enjoyable. Minty, grainy dark red and blue fruits. Tannins were a tad grippy but grabbed onto the food and became seamless. Was it worth the wait for >20 years. Tonight…yes.

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  8/20/2021 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Best bottle (Restaurant Brunnenstube, Beinstein): Tasted blind.
  Deep purple, ruby color. Classic right bank BDX nose, some spices and green notes from the CabFranc, very youthful.
  On the palate very deep, lots of ripe red fruit, mineral notes, herbs. Lush, power and pressure, wonderful tannin and overall structure and texture. Long and lingering. Still with upscale potential 93-94+

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  8/3/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Rare wines: A very dark hue with a nose of vanilla. Over-extracted and plummy, rather modern and fruit-forward. Almost port-like, has a chocolate note that I really don’t like in wines. Stood up to the beef well though.

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  8/3/2021 - Dibbs Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A ripe, extracted right bank which has become more of a norm in St. Emilion than an exception nowadays. I really had liked the 2000 vintage before as it had a lot of power without being jammy or overripe. This wine is somewhere in the middle, doesn't really have the elegance or the power. It is probably due to the vintage being a weak one. This wine still has a long life ahead of itself.

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  5/23/2021 - RWG Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Really nice, good spot right now but no signs of decline, black currant and menthol, super nice wine.

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