Château Troplong Mondot

Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

2023

Blend

84% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc

Wine designation

Château Troplong Mondot, Red, 2023
Category: Saint-Emilion Grand Cru,
1er Grand Cru Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux

Food pairing

Pair with some of Bordeaux’s finest dishes: an entrecôte with a shallot sauce to a roasted duck with a Porto reduction.

Château Troplong Mondot

Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

2023

Tasting notes

A Bordeaux wine with a fine, aromatic nose. Notes of concentrated black fruits such as blackberry and blueberry. Some spicy aromas. Very well-structured, with perfectly integrated silky tannins. Power, balance and finesse make this Troplong Mondot a great wine in progress. A fine tension on the finish, thanks to acidity that lasts.

Vineyard

Vineyard size: 43 hectares
Soil composition: Clay-limestone, sedimentary fragments of flint and limestone

Winemaking

Aging: Oak Barrels
12 to 18 months, 75% to 80% new barrels
Type of oak: French

Heritage in the vineyard

Domaine

Originally called Château Mondot, it belonged to Romain Desèze, defender of King Louis XVI. It was later owned by Raymond Troplong, a lawyer and politician, who acquired it in 1850 and gave it its definitive name. The Troplong-Mondot success story is indisputably linked to the Valette family, Bordeaux wine merchants who bought the estate in the 1920s. From the 1980s onwards, Christine Valette-Pariente and her husband Xavier Paliente guided the estate towards excellence, placing it in the pantheon of great wines. The estate has belonged to the SCOR Group since 2017, with Aymeric de Gironde taking the reins as Managing Director, keen to place Troplong-Mondot among the finest wines on the international wine scene.

Green in the vineyard

Environmental practices

The vineyard is run entirely using integrated viticulture methods.