Chateau Troplong Mondot Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2003 CS20230731 this is powerful yet elegant

this is powerful yet elegant

And it gets the full serious-wine treatment: native yeast

" What they've accomplished since then has been nothing short of transforming Azorean grapes into the most sought-after—and expensive—in Portugal

Farmed organically and pulled from a patchwork of lieux-dits across the appellation

Chateau Troplong Mondot Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2003 CS20230731 this is powerful yet elegantTroplong 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