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LA MONDOTTE

2019 Saint Emilion

Grapes Cab Franc, Merlot
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Saint Emilion & Satellites
Village Saint Emilion
ABV 13.5%

The 2019 La Mondotte is very subtle on the nose with red berries, briary and sous-bois scents, well-defined and quite transparent in style. The palate is fresh and somewhat peppery on the entry, with noticeable acidity for the vintage. Linear and strict, old school in many ways with a structured, foursquare finish. This obviously needs time in bottle. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting. Drinking range: 2025 - 2045 Rating: 92 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Feb 2023)


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The 2019 La Mondotte is a massive, imposing wine. Huge tannins wrap around a core of blackberry jam, graphite, crushed rocks, menthol, chocolate and licorice. It will be interesting to see if the 2019 softens at all, or if it remains a behemoth. I would like to see a bit more finesse. Power alone is interesting only to a point Drinking range: 2029 - 2044 Rating: 95 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Feb 2022)

The 2019 La Mondotte has a wonderful, pure bouquet of expressive black cherries, boysenberry, crushed violets and peony scents that flourish with aeration. Sensual yet succinctly controlled. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins, very smooth and cohesive. This is not a deep La Mondotte, and you might quibble about a slightly brief aftertaste, though I suspect this is more due to tasting in winter. Give this 3–4 years in bottle and it will gain depth and persistence to become a very fine Saint-Émilion. Drinking range: 2026 - 2050 Rating: 94 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Feb 2022)

Liquified rocks, gravel, blackberry jam, smoke, licorice and dried flowers are some of the many aromas and flavors that infuse La Mondotte with tremendous character. Brooding and potent, the 2019 possesses dazzling richness married to structure. I can't wait to taste it from bottle. It is a wine of tremendous breeding Rating: 94-96 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Jun 2020)

La Mondotte

La Mondotte has a less than remarkable history dating back at least to the 19th Century – things only get interesting after 1971, and even then it takes a while. In 1971 the von Neipperg family bought La Mondotte along with Clos de l’Oratoire and, surely the jewel in the crown, Château Canon la Gaffelière. Not much was expected of La Mondotte, it hadn’t made it into any St Emilion classifications, there wasn’t even a château or any wine making facilities there, the wine being made at Canon la Gaffelière and with little aplomb. Stephan von Neipperg took over the family’s St Emilion estates in 1983 and by the mid-90’s had taken the eminently sensible decision to absorb the vineyards of La Mondotte into the grander estate of Château Canon la Gaffelière, and the necessary application was made to the INAO. The INAO said no. In a fit of miraculous pique, Stephan, rather than doing away with La Mondotte, launched it at the world – in order to function as an estate in its own right a new winery and facilities were built at the vineyard, Stéphane Derenoncourt was brought in as winemaker and yields were slashed to some of the lowest in St Emilion. He might have built a château, but from the first vintage of the re-born Le Mondotte the “Château” prefix was gone. The first vintage was 1996 and it was an immediate hit. By the time the 2012 St Emilion classification was released, La Mondotte was a Premier Grand Cru Classé (B). La Mondotte is at the eastern end of the St Emilion plateau on very deep limestone soils. It sits next to Château Troplong Mondot. The vineyards are 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc, with an average age of 50 years. Yields are typically as low as 20hl/ha, and occasionally lower. The wine is aged exclusively in new wood for 18 to 24 months. La Mondotte is an unashamedly rich and concentrated style of St Emilion and has garnered much praise from Robert Parker.

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