2017 Château Troplong Mondot, St Emilion, Bordeaux

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2017 Château Troplong Mondot, St Emilion, BordeauxAt Ch. Troplong Mondot new chief executive Aymeric de Gironde talks about a return to a pre 1998 style. The 2017 is certainly a step in that direction. A blend of 85 percent Merlot, 13 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and two percent Cabernet Franc, it has wonderful, unctuous pleasing fruit notes of dark and blue fruit, mulberry, damson, blueberry and blackcurrant. This is a wine which is full of immediate appeal and sweet fruit. But there is an elegance to

Despite drought conditions

His 2015 reds are wines of grace and elegance

with some generosity from the grapes harvested from Ambonnay and Pouzy

A vintage of superb quality

elevated by its Armagnac cask finish

With the anticipated excitement around the quality of the 2002 vintage

smoky tobacco

the cool climate enhances its spicy

This is extremely elegant on the palate: linear and fine

whose name does suggest that grapes get very ripe here

Exhilarating

There is underlying power here