Trotanoy - Pomerol 2020 (1.5L)
Jeb Dunnuck: 100 Points
Reminding me slightly of the 1998 the dense ruby/purple-hued 2020 Château Trotanoy offers a classic concentrated structured regal style that this terroir seems to deliver with ease. Giving up a layered primordial bouquet of smoked tobacco black cherries iron graphite and gravelly earth it hits the palate with a massive array of fruit and tannins that somehow stays flawlessly balanced offering ripe silky yet building tannins flawless balance and a gorgeous finish. It's going to need a decade of bottle age to hit the early stages of maturity but this is pure Pomerol brilliance. Is there a better performing Château on the Right Bank today? Not in my opinion.
James Suckling: 100 Points
28 Mar 2023 ? Love the perfume and finesse here with fresh flowers blackberries crushed stones and cement. Cedar. Full and very long with tight and muscular tannins that go on for minutes. Tight and thoughtful. Soulful. Try after 2030.
The Wine Independent: 100 Points
The 2020 Trotanoy is 100% Merlot and has a deep garnet-purple color. It is shut down tight to begin needing a lot of patience and vigorous shaking to unlock notes of tar fertile loam licorice and black truffles leading to a core of preserved plums and fruitcake with emerging wafts of iron ore and unsmoked cigars. The full-bodied palate is almost impenetrable - densely laden with taut black fruits and earthy accents supported by very ripe grainy tannins and just enough freshness finishing long and profound. Give it 10-15 years at least and then prepare to be dazzled.
Decanter: 100 Points
A sure fire hit in 2020 and one of my absolute favourites of the vintage. Perfumed black cherries roses and dark chocolate on the nose: ripe and fresh aromas. The crystalline fruit purity and finesse is wonderful while still filling the mouth with a density to the crushed velvet-textured tannins that give the structure and cushioning. Seriously appealing and charming it?s big and clearly powerful with layers of black fruit but it has a sense of restraint where nothing feels overworked. Perfectly weighted with balance poise and persistence ? you know you're drinking something special here. (Drink between 2029-2048)
jaJane Anson: 100 Points
Vinous: 98 Points
The 2020 Trotanoy is tremendous. Even better it might not take forever to come around! Vertical in build with tons of explosive energy Trotanoy offers a beguiling mix of black cherry plum licorice incense dried herbs menthol and graphite. There is a ton of energy and structure along with the signature Trotanoy tannins but all the elements are so well-balanced.
Wine Spectator: 96 Points
Delivers a beam of alluring and lush mulberry raspberry and black currant puree flavors while maintaining form and focus with an underpinning of warm paving stone and humus for spine as well as focusing tobacco and alder accents along the edges. Clearly marked by the vintage but with density and definition that differentiate this from the pack. Best from 2026 through 2040. 1600 cases made 163 cases imported.
Wine Advocate: 94+ Points
The 2020 Trotanoy is the most powerful wine in the Mouiex portfolio this year delivering a rich bouquet of cherries dark berries fruitcakes licorice anise and brown sugar. Full-bodied rich and muscular with a ripe heady core of sun-kissed fruit and considerable structuring extract it concludes with a broad expansive finish that largely conceals the wine's 15% alcohol. Given its structure and substance it will certainly require some patience.
