2009 Red Wine from St Emilion

TheWineCellarInsider.com, 94 points: Round, opulent, forward and loaded with chocolate covered black cherries, plums, licorice, espresso and smoke, this lushly textured wine really delivers the goods. Read more...

jebdunnuck.com, 100 points: Pure perfection in a glass, the incredible 2009 Troplong Mondot offers off the chart notes of blackcurrants, licorice, truffles and saddle leather that just soar from the glass. This is a big, ripe, incredibly sexy wine...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: Aromas of nuts spices chocolate powder then changes to fruits and flowers. Fascinating. Full body with silky tannins and a wonderful intensity and super polished tannins with a long long finish. Super refined. Best Canon...

jamessuckling.com, 94 points: Love the soft and velvety tannin with the milk chocolate and fruit character. Full and silky. Long and delicious. So fine. Best wine from this estate in decades. Maybe ever. Best after 2017.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: It will be fascinating to follow the evolution of the 2009 Cheval Blanc versus the 2010 as well as the awesome 2005 2000 1998 and 1990. This famous estate's vineyard is situated at the juncture of Pomerol and the sandy...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The finest wine yet made by this estate run by Stephane Derenoncourt's wife Christine this blend of 78% Merlot and 22% Cabernet Franc tips the scales at 14+% alcohol. It exhibits copious aromas of blueberries raspberries...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: After tasting it three times from bottle I am convinced this prodigious wine is one of the greatest young Bordeaux I have ever tasted. Inky blue/purple with notes of camphor forest floor blackberry cassis sweet cherries...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: An absolutely spectacular effort the 2009 is one of the all-time great La Gaffelieres produced. One would have to go back to the 2005 1947 or 1961 to find this level of quality from this ancient historic vineyard planted...