An amazing tour de force in winemaking this massive opaque black/purple-colored offering boasts an extraordinarily pure nose of black fruits intermixed with cedar vanillin fudge and espresso. It is unctuously-textured with exhilarating levels of blackberry/cassis fruit and extract as well as multiple dimensions that unfold on the palate. The 50-second finish reveals moderately high tannin. Despite its similarity to dry vintage port it is not a wine to drink early. It is a colossal wine! Anticipated maturity: 2008-2035. The ultimate garage wine La Mondotte is ultra-concentrated frightfully expensive yet worth every cent.</P>

Extremely well-constructed young red. Black in color and massively grapey with loads of mineral menthol and toasted oak. Full-bodied with big velvety tannins and a long grapey finish. The leading new-wave wine of St.-Emilion. Best after 2010. 800 cases made. (JS)