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La Mondotte 2010

St Emilion, Grand Cru

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Tasting Notes

Gorgeous nose with a great concentration of aromas such as chocolate, blackberries and licorice. Opens up with wild strawberries and lots of orange blossom. Full and concentrated on palate with super silky tannins and beautiful dark fruit. Lots of new wood in the finish that needs to integrate. This shows the essence of Mondotte. Drink from 2017.

Score: 96

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2017+ 04 February 2013

The 2010, a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc cropped at 20 hectoliters per hectare, is showing incredibly well, combining elegance, extraordinary crème de cassis and kirsch-like fruit, and notes of licorice, incense and vanillin in a fragrant, full-bodied, massively endowed style that is neither heavy nor overbearing. The freshness and overall precision of this wine reminds me stylistically of the brilliant 1998 as well as the 2000. This wine normally drinks well reasonably young, but I suspect the 2010 is going to require 5-7 years of cellaring and keep for 25-30+ years.

Score: 99

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2018-2048+ 01 February 2013

2010: Owner Stefan von Neipperg and winemaking consultant Stephane Derenoncourt have fashioned a prodigious wine in 2010. This 11.5-acre gem of an estate sits on clay and limestone soils above Pavie and Pavie Decesse. The 2010's final blend was 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. It offers unctuously-textured mulberry, boysenberry and blueberry fruit intertwined with notions of espresso roast, toast, smoke and graphite. Full-bodied with a skyscraper-like mouthfeel, silky tannins and a tremendous finish, it will be drinkable in 3-4 years and evolve for 20-25 or more. (96-98+Points)

Score: 96 - 98

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 04 May 2011

A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, cropped around 16th October and 22nd October respectively. This was punched down only three days, a slow fermentation, big problems with the malolactic (one plot unfinished and included in the blend.) The La Mondotte ’10 has a very pure, very attractive bouquet with macerated black cherries, griottes and a touch of honey that verges on marmalade. Fantastic definition. The palate is full-bodied with seamless tannins, very pure and sensual but with real backbone. Good weight in the mouth, imbued with a beguiling symmetry that reminds me of the 2005. Mellifluous on the finish. Very fine. Drink 2015-2025. Tasted March 2011.

Score: 94 - 96

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2015-2025 27 April 2011

Dark crimson. tarry, dry and intense and angst ridden with less obvious fruit than its stablemate Canon La Gaffelière, but very ambitious, very tarry and introvert.

Score: 17

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2018-2038 14 April 2011

Full-bodied and powerful but beautifully textured. A touch of the 'iron fist in a velvet glove'. Dense, ripe fruit on the nose with minerally lift. Suave texture and bags of tannin. Long finish.

Score: 18 - 19

Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2020-2035 01 April 2011

Shows the density of the vintage, with the charcoal, cocoa and melted black licorice notes holding sway over a core of plum, fig and blackberry fruit. Dark and brooding now, but the core of fruit remains succulent and visible through the end, with serious minerality lurking in the background. Power combined with great cut.

Score: 95 - 98

James Molesworth, Wine Spectator 31 March 2011