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2019 Château Troplong Mondot, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot
Not ready
Product: 20198015141
2019 Château Troplong Mondot, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Description

It’s a really good result for Aymeric de Gironde this year, as he continues to shape Troplong's famously powerful terroir. As with last year, the proportion of new oak has been reduced to 60% and this year there are experiments with amphorae. The wine is certainly generous, with its typical muscle and liquorice notes, and there is bounce and energy on the palate too. The wine is more persuasive than 2018 and feels better knit. It has the roundness of 2015 with the precision of 2016, thinks Aymeric. Drink 2027-2045.

Blend: 85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc

Mark Pardoe MW, Wine Director

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Merlot
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Troplong Mondot

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Saint-Emilion

Saint-Emilion

First officially classified in 1954, St-Émilion is one of Bordeaux's largest winemaking appellations, producing more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St Estèphe, Pauillac, St Julien and Margaux combined. Many of the region's finest vineyards can be found atop the steep limestone slopes of the village itself, although a fledgling band of garagiste producers are eschewing terroir to make small-batch, deeply-concentrated wines from their homes.
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Château Troplong Mondot

Château Troplong Mondot is a wine estate in St Émilion on the Right Bank of Bordeaux. Ranked a Premier Grand Cru Classé B in 2006, the estate occupies an enviable terroir atop St Émilion’s famed limestone plateau.
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