2004 Chateau Troplong Mondotte

[TheEngineer]

I was looking forward to this wine. I tasted this wine at the winery a few years back and it was a fantastic, large scale, if a bit monolithic. So was excited to dig into this one. Nose was good, with good berries, tobacco, interesting, but the palate was less so, baby fat definitely gone, wine was a bit drying, dark fruits, medium plus bodied, still a nice drink, perhaps a bit high on the acidity, or maybe it was still shutdown. Will revisit in a few years.