Chateau Troplong Mondot Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2003 CS20230731 saline-driven finish

saline-driven finish

and unapologetically fun

relying upon the marine influence of the nearby Pacific to keep it exceptionally cool and the evening fog to provide moisture

is that we used older and more rare barrels in Gray Label Dovetail

The Hopewell Hills vineyard sits in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA on low-fractured basalt with medium-shallow soils - rocky

Chateau Troplong Mondot Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2003 CS20230731 saline-driven finishTroplong Mondot sits on Saint milion's limestone plateau and remains a Premier Grand Cru Class B in the (still much debated) classification. The 2003 came at the height of the Christine Valette era, when the estate's signature was ripe, opulent, almost decadent wine, and the heat wave vintage played directly to that style. The limestone gave the wine just enough freshness to balance the heat; everything else dialed up to eleven. More than twenty years