2024 Château Troplong Mondot, St-Emilion

2024 Château Troplong Mondot, St-Emilion

New release

Aged in 55% new wood, the 2024 Troplong Mondot is a blend of 85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon. It is a beautiful and elegant wine this vintage, full of finesse. It offers flavours of a little blood orange, wild cherry, some dried herbs, and a slight ferrous note. There are accents of a little exotic spice with charming floral notes of cherry and violets. A complex wine that keeps unfolding to reveal orange peel, pomegranate, kirsh notes. There is a fine seamless texture here it, opens with richer cherry fruit then tightens on the finish with a real sense of purity and salinity.

Critic score
95/100 info
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Case, 6 Bottles
En primeur info
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£432.00
Bottle
En primeur info
In stock
£72.00

Wine details

  • Region & country
    Saint-Emilion, Right Bank, Bordeaux, France
  • Maturity
    Young 2028 - 2052info
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Style
    Still
  • Unit Volume
    Bottle (75cl.)

Tasting notes

The 2024 Troplong Mondot was matured in 55% new oak, 26% in 20-hectolitre foudres and 19% in used barrels. It offers minerally, tightly wound black fruit, blueberry and light chalky scents. Very fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant yet tensile tannins. Like the Mondot, it is peppery in style, pretty and sapid towards the finish. Not a huge amount of persistence, yet this is still a serious Saint-Émilion that could well end up at the top of my banded score.

Neal Martin, vinous.com (May 2025)
(93—95)/100

The 2024 Troplong Mondot is a total stunner. As has been the case for some years now, the Grand Vin is blended before being barreled down, which means at the time of tasting en primeur, the wine has seen less wood than the vast majority of its peers. That lends this wine a certain raw energy that is impossible to miss. The purity and intensity of the flavors are simply remarkable. Troplong Mondot is one of the standouts of 2024. Even in this vintage, Troplong Mondot possesses remarkable textural presence, but that richness is matched by notable freshness and linear drive. It was deeply impressive on the two occasions I tasted it. Élevage is planned to be 55% in new oak, 26% in 20HL barrels and 19% in once-used barrels.

Antonio Galloni, vinous.com (April 2025)
(95—97)/100

This has the Troplong terroir and intensity visually, immediately clear, with violets, squid ink, slate, roses, liquorice root. Love the chalky oyster shell salinity on the finish, delivers exceptional balance and lift, with interesting texture that is grippy with pumice stone tannins. No chaptilisation, because this is a location with natural density and you really see it here. Brilliantly silky, this has depth and yet is savoury, touch of whole cluster winemaking. 55% new oak, with 19% oak casks and the rest one year old.

Jane Anson (April 2025)
95/100

The 2024 Troplong Mondot is a beauty, wafting from the glass with aromas of dark berries and licorice mingled with hints of violet and lavender. Medium to full-bodied, dense and deep, it's one of the more layered and muscular wines of the vintage, a quality this terroir seems to invariably deliver, with sweet tannins and lively acids, concluding with a long, expansive finish.

William Kelley, robertparker.com (April 2025)
(93—95)

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