Chateau Troplong Mondot Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2003 CS20230731 The Hopewell Hills vineyard sits

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

this is cider made like Champagne: precise

this is powerful yet elegant

saline-driven finish

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Chateau Troplong Mondot Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2003 CS20230731 The Hopewell Hills vineyard sitsTroplong 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