A classic Pomerol with brown sugar, chocolate and black olive aromas as well as ripe fruits. It’s full-bodied with super velvety tannins and a luscious and delicious finish.
Reviews:
- Wine Advocate: Tasted at the Trotanoy dinner at Sketch in London. This bottle of 1982 Trotanoy repeats the performance of the one served at Zachys 1982 dinner in Hong Kong. It has a wonderful Merlot-scented bouquet that is floral and exuberant, though intriguingly it develops more Cabernet Franc/meaty aromas with continued aeration. It becomes rounded and sensual with roasted chestnuts emerging with time. The palate has a sweet entry, as one would expect for this vintage. It is plush, smooth and rounded in the mouth with dark plum and mulberry notes, a saline tincture and that chestnut motif continuing right to the youthful finish. After 30 years, this still has many years ahead.
- John Gilman: At our January vertical tasting, we had a very, very good bottle of 1982 Trotanoy, but I have had even more open and opulent examples in the last few years. That said, with some extended aeration, this wine started to open up nicely and offered a superb bouquet of black plums, black cherries, new leather, a very complex base of soil tones, a nice touch of meatiness, vanillin oak and plenty of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is deep, full and powerful in profile, with a plush core, superb focus and grip, a very long and well-balanced finish and still just a bit of ripe tannin perking up the backend. This is a legendary vintage of Trotanoy that still has a very, very long life ahead of it. It is probably one of the greatest three or four wines ever made at this venerable estate.
Producer Information
Château Trotanoy is a Bordeaux wine estate in the Pomerol appellation, regarded as one of the great wines of the right bank. The Merlot-dominant wine is known for its decadent, rich style, and its prices are among the highest in Bordeaux. In the 18th Century, the estate was known as Trop Ennuie, or “Too Annoying”, due to the poor, hard-to-work nature of the soils here. These are made up of clay with deposits of gravel and iron, and are now considered as very good soils for viticulture. Château Trotanoy is located on the western side of the Pomerol plateau, not far from Pétrus and Lafleur, and covers 7 hectares (18 acres). Around 90 percent of this is planted to Merlot, with Cabernet Franc accounting for the remainder. Trotanoy was one of the few estates that was not destroyed in the frosts of 1956, and therefore has some of the oldest vines in the region. Fruit arriving at the vineyard passes through two laser-equipped optical sorting tables. The grand vin is fermented in small concrete vats and matured in oak – half of which is new – for around 18 months. A second wine, L’Esperance de Trotanoy, made its debut in 2009, but does not appear every year. Château Trotanoy has been a part of négociant JP Moueix since 1953, alongside Pétrus.
