2012 Château La Mondotte
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The 2012 La Mondotte has a fresh and more vigorous bouquet than its peers with cough candy-tinged red fruit, marmalade, brown spices and leather. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, good structure, quite solid in the mouth with grip on the finish. Maybe just a little austere on the finish, though this is drinking well at the moment. Fine. Tasted blind at the Southwold Ten-Year On tasting.
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Robert Parker
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Tasted blind. Blackish crimson. Strong cassis nose. Polished tannins. Finely honed. Just a little raw at the moment but not too exaggerated. Masses of Cabernet impression. (JR)
The 2012 La Mondotte is likely to require quite a bit of time to come together. Dense and powerful in the glass, yet with a vertical spine of structure, the 2012 has a lot to say. Smoke, graphite, black cherries, mocha and licorice flow through to the dense, powerful finish. The purity of the fruit is striking. La Mondotte, a 85% Merlot/15% Cabernet Franc blend emerges from a tiny estate with vineyards planted on a bed of limestone and clay.