2021, La Mondotte, SAINT-ÉMILION, 1er Grand Cru ClasséBordeaux Blend: Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon. The 2021 La Mondotte is a dense, potent beauty, with depths of black cherry, plum, gravel, scorched earth, leather, lavender and incense. In 2021, Mondotte is quite savoury and brooding, a style with freshness and less opulence than most years. It's also a wine that needs time. I imagine the 2021 will always be a pretty dark Saint milion. 95 Antonio Galloni, Vinous (2023). The 2021 La

92 Yohan Castaing

Definite slate and crushed stones

but they quickly soften and widen

The 2021 La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion offers up a complex

The 2021 Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge has a tertiary red berry and undergrowth-tinged bouquet that unfurls gradually in the glass

No chaptilisation

It has a gorgeous purple black centre

Unwinding in the glass with complex aromas of blackberries

Dark red cherry

and this vintage represents a new chapter

along with liqourice root

From their only vineyard on the Vosne-Romanée side of Nuits - which sits above Aux Murgers