France • Château Troplong Mondot, 33330 Saint-Émilion, France
Château Troplong Mondot is a leading Saint-Émilion estate, ranked Premier Grand Cru Classé and dramatically sited at the highest point of the appellation, overlooking the medieval village. Its origins go back to the 18th century, when the abbé Raymond de Sèze built the château in 1745 and established the Mondot estate. In 1850 the jurist Raymond-Théodore Troplong acquired and expanded the property, which later passed to the Valette family in the 20th century. Under Christine Valette-Pariente, from the early 1980s,…
