2021 Château Troplong Mondot

Lovely density here with a solid center-palate of fruit and fine tannins. Medium body. Underlying salinity and oyster-shell character in the finish. Well defined. Grows at the end.

Bright purple rim to the wine. So many aromas on the nose, really captivating and full - dark chocolate, pink flowers giving a soft perfume, cinnamon, raspberries, black cherries and liquorice too - all intensifying over twenty minutes in the glass. Super bright and charged on the palate, this is off like a firecracker from the initial impact, giving tangy strawberry, red cherry and raspberry fruit flavours. It's got power no doubt, but a delicate, light style, not so concentrated and intense more lifted and aerial with tension. So much energy here, the flavours come in waves on the palate, red fruits, cooling blue fruits, exotic spices, flowers and fresh minty, stone notes with a real mineral salinity on the finish. It's perhaps not so weighty or full in the mouth like previous more opulent vintages, but there is clarity and definition of elements on show. I love the mineral finish, so Troplong. Extremely refined. First vintage in the new cellar facilities which helped with precision.

The 2021 Troplong Mondot is shockingly raw and untamed, but in the very best sense of those terms. A wine of energy and pure power, the 2021 is going to need a number of years to be at its best, but it is certainly very impressive in the early going. The 2021 clocks in at 13.5%, which has not been seen here since the 1990s. The 2021 is not an easy wine to taste at this stage, as it is not fully formed. I won't be surprised if the 2021 turns out even better than this note suggests. It is a dazzling wine by any measure, and a far cry from the wines of decade ago, when the malolactic fermentations were often not finished when en primeur samples were presented! Superb.

Von Troplong Mondot gibt es nur gute News: kein Frost, kein Mehltau und ein grosser Wein mit 20/20 Punkten! 2021 war der erste Jahrgang, der im neuen Weinkeller vinifiziert wurde. Troplong Mondot hat sich damit auf wunderbare Art entwickelt. Der 2021er präsentiert sich schon in der Nase wie ein Wirbelwind, Eleganz und Frische, etwas Röstaro- men und viel schwarze Früchte. Ja, und es geht so weiter im Gaumen, das ist richtig tiefgründig, höchst aromatisch, seidige Tannine, die Fülle ist da, aber alles mit einer schönen Frische unterlegt, ein Feuerwerk von Frucht und Kräuteraromen.Der hallt unheimlich lang nach, einfach ein riesiger Genuss. Ich muss mich zusammenreissen, dass ich den Wein nur degus- tiere und nicht trinke.