2020 Chateau Trotanoy, Pomerol, Caes of 6 Btls
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100JD100LP100JA100JS100DR
Critic key
JD = Jeb DunnuckLP = Lisa Perrotti-BrownJS = James SucklingDR = DecanterJA = Jane Anson
- Rating
- JD100/LP100/JA100/JS100/DR100
- Producer
- Trotanoy
- Vintage
- 2020
- Region
- Bordeaux
- Appellation
- Pomerol
- Country
- France
- Format
- Caes
- Volume
- 750mL
- ABV
- 15.0
- Type
- Still
- Color
- Red
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Product Description
JD100 "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." JD Mar 2023
LP100 "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." LPB for TWI Mar 2023
JA100 "Muscular, powerful, precise and oh-so-clearly long ageing, this is Trotanoy at the height of its powers, and you could be nowhere else but Pomerol with this glass. Succulent black cherry and cassis fruits, riven through with cocoa bean, cigar box, cloves, toasted pepper, gunsmoke and liquorice. It digs in and grips on from beginning to end, so sure of itself and its place. The tannins remain closed right now, as you would expect at just three years old, but it is already hinting at the crushed rose petals and violet flowers that will unveil further over the next decade. This was a potential 100 point wine during my En Primeur tastings, and my in bottle re-taste has arrived a little later than usual, but I am thrilled to say that it fully lives up to expectations." JA for IB Jun 2023
JS100 "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." JS Mar 2023
DR100 "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." GH for DR Jan 2023
LP100 "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." LPB for TWI Mar 2023
JA100 "Muscular, powerful, precise and oh-so-clearly long ageing, this is Trotanoy at the height of its powers, and you could be nowhere else but Pomerol with this glass. Succulent black cherry and cassis fruits, riven through with cocoa bean, cigar box, cloves, toasted pepper, gunsmoke and liquorice. It digs in and grips on from beginning to end, so sure of itself and its place. The tannins remain closed right now, as you would expect at just three years old, but it is already hinting at the crushed rose petals and violet flowers that will unveil further over the next decade. This was a potential 100 point wine during my En Primeur tastings, and my in bottle re-taste has arrived a little later than usual, but I am thrilled to say that it fully lives up to expectations." JA for IB Jun 2023
JS100 "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." JS Mar 2023
DR100 "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." GH for DR Jan 2023