Saint-Émilion · vintage 1999
The 1999 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A stormy summer and hail reduced the harvest: supple, fruity wines, to be drunk today.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Blend of the 1999 vintage
- 85 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 1999 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with merlot, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 1999 sheet
- 75,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
In temperature-controlled stainless steel vats, conical, double-walled. Malolactic fermentation in vat
Ageing
14 months of ageing: 65% new barrels, 35% one-wine barrels (including a variable percentage of foudre and amphora)
Terroir
A thick limestone rock beneath the layer of heavy clay, together with the water table present in the subsoil, combine to give the old vines of Troplong Mondot (35 years of age on average, the oldest being in their nineties) the limited fertility required by great growths. This clay-limestone soil, typical of the côtes crus of Saint-Emilion, is mingled with sedimentary fragments of flint and limestone. It is perhaps to this unusual component that the wine's splendid robe and fine concentration should be attributed. The blend is 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Texts and documents 1999
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.