2020 Chateau Troplong Mondot Saint-Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classe 750 ml

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100 pts

Decanter

A sensational Troplong. Vibrant and vivid, this makes you smile from the first smell: milk chocolate, floral notes of roses and lavender, wet stones, liquorice, cinnamon and ripe bramble fruits. Round and thrilling on the palate, tannins are abundant with a chalky blueberry coolness while a salty tang settles around the mouth. Lovely precision and purity of fruit; you feel the sharp definition - still linear which makes it less immediately charming than the 2019 but giving undeniable complexity. Deep but not heady, this remains pure and detailed, with a leanness from the terroir really setting this apart. After a few minutes, the glamour starts to appear giving a salivating, succulent and moreish aspect to the finish. An absolute beauty.

98+ pts

Wine Advocate

The 2020 Troplong Mondot may prove to be even better than the brilliant 2019, and it is one of the Right Bank's finest wines in this vintage. Unwinding in the glass with deep aromas of mulberries, blackberries and red cherries mingled with hints of rose petal, licorice and exotic spices, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with a satiny attack that segues into a vibrant, polished mid-palate, concluding with a long, resonant finish. Having seen only 65% new oak and with malolactic fermentation completed in tank rather than in barrel, it's remarkably pure and seamless. With the 2020 vintage, this estate's stylistic redemption appears to be complete.

98 pts

Vinous

The 2020 Troplong Mondot is fabulous. Rich, dark and expansive, the 2020 is wonderfully exuberant right out of the gate. Black cherry, plum, gravel, incense and licorice are all dialed up. There's tremendous breadth and power, but without the excess weight of the past. Even so, the 2020 is a big, big wine that needs the better part of a decade to soften. All the classic Troplong structure is there, but buffered by vibrant acids and tons of supporting minerality. Harvest started on September 5 and finished on October 8, a very wide window for the Right Bank, and a reminder of how different the parcels are. The 2020 was done in 60% new oak, 12% foudres, and 28% once-used barrels.

98 pts

Wine Enthusiast

Cellar Selection. This firmly structured wine with its high percentage of Merlot is powerful and dense. The bold black fruits and perfumed density are impressive. It will age, ready to drink from 2028.

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Château Troplong Mondot sits at the highest point in the Saint-Émilion appellation, its vines cascading down a hillside and back up another in a full 360-degree sweep of exposure. The clay and limestone soils here are among the most prized on the Right Bank—cool enough to preserve freshness, mineral-rich enough to build structure, and ideally suited to the Merlot that dominates the estate's plantings.

The estate takes its name from Raymond Troplong, a 19th-century French jurist and senator who acquired the property in 1848 and expanded it into one of Saint-Émilion's most significant holdings. Today it is one of only a handful of estates to hold Premier Grand Cru Classé status—the appellation's highest designation—and its position on the plateau above the town of Saint-Émilion has long made it one of the Right Bank's most coveted addresses.

Estate director Aymeric de Gironde and consultant Thomas Duclos have spent years refining their approach to this exceptional terroir, and the 2020 vintage gave them every opportunity to show what it can do. The growing season was warm and dry, producing fruit of exceptional concentration across Bordeaux. On the Right Bank, clay soils helped retain just enough moisture to keep the vines in balance—and the estates that farmed with care were rewarded with some of the most compelling wines in a generation.

At Troplong Mondot, that care extended deep into the winery. Harvest took place only in the early morning hours to protect the fruit from the heat, with grapes chilled to around five degrees before fermentation. A cold maceration averaged ten days—some tanks pushed to fifteen—followed by a rapid, efficient fermentation. As in 2019, malolactic fermentation was completed in tank rather than in barrel, a decision that, in de Gironde's words, "brings a bit more purity to the wines."

The result is a wine of remarkable precision and depth: dark fruit, rose petal, and licorice on the nose, a palate of satiny concentration, and a finish of extraordinary length. Decanter awarded it a perfect 100 points—one of just three Right Bank wines to receive that distinction in 2020—calling it "an absolute beauty."