Trotanoy - Pomerol 2019 (750ml)
Jeb Dunnuck: 100 Points
Reminding me a little of the 1998 the 2019 Château Trotanoy is all Merlot sourced from a 7-hectare vineyard planted on dark clay and gravelly soils. A prodigious wine in every way it offers a serious dense powerful full-bodied style as well as notes of ripe black cherries damp earth tobacco cedar pencil and graphite. As with the other top wines in the vintage it has an incredible sense of purity and precision building firm tannins awesome mid-palate depth and a huge finish. It's not for those seeking instant gratification and is much more structured and backward than I would have thought from barrel. It needs a solid decade of bottle age and will have 40+ years of longevity. It's another brilliant brilliant wine from this team that I wish every reader could taste.
vVinous: 99 Points
The 2019 Trotanoy is blessed with ineffable delineation on the pure focused nose which features touches of pencil lead and sous-bois embroidered through a mélange of red and black fruit. Astounding. The palate is perfectly balanced with seamlessly integrated oak and a cashmere texture complete and oozing effortless class. I don?t know whether to drink or elope with this Pomerol. Better perhaps to stick it away in a cool damp cellar for a decade and then make all your friends jealous when you serve it. A serious contender for wine of the vintage.
James Suckling: 98 Points
Aromas of peanut brittle blackberries crushed stones violets and blueberries. Full-bodied and powerful with layers of creamy velvety and juicy tannins. A classic Trotanoy with true character of itself. Wonderful length and character. Best after 2027.
Wine Spectator: 97 Points
Dense and ripe but with a sleekness and sense of reserve as the core of cassis blackberry paste and fig pâte de fruit notes is flanked by warm earth roasted alder and tobacco notes. The finish is underscored by a bolt of cast iron with everything knitting steadily through to the end. Offers a serious tarry grip too. Best from 2026 through 2042. 1250 cases made 162 cases imported.
Wine Advocate: 95+ Points
The most powerful wine in the Mouiex portfolio this year is the 2019 Trotanoy a rich muscular effort that is also unusually open out of the gates for a young wine from this estate. Offering up aromas of cherries dark berries cedarwood rich spices sweet soil tones and creamy new oak it's full-bodied deep and textural with a lavish attack notable concentration and plenty of ripe tannin that asserts itself on the youthfully chewy finish.
