Chateau Trotanoy 2021

WEINWISSER: "Der Trotanoy war bei den Primeurs-Verkostungen der beste Wein aus Pomerol und bestätigt seine Qualität nach der Abfüllung. Allerdings konnten wir den direkten Konkurrenten Pétrus noch nicht nachverkosten. Supertiefgründig und weit, enorm vielschichtig und mit extrem feinkörnigen Gerbstoffen bezeugt der Trotanoy 2021 seine grandiose Klasse. Das wird auch mit zunehmender Flaschenreife über Jahrzehnte ewig frisch bleiben. Grandios, wie das Terroir in diesem Jahrgang durchkommt. Ewig lang und weit, ein überragender und grandioser Trotanoy!"

JAMES SUCKLING: "Plum, chocolate, hazelnut and iodine aromas follow through to a medium body with firm and silky tannins and a savory finish. Hints of toasted oak and chocolate to the fruit on the palate. Balanced and classy. Seriously pretty. Trot personality. Give this three or four years to open and show more. Drink after 2025."

DECANTER: "Perfumed and vivid nose. Supple and alive, plump yet streamlined, too - the initial bounce of round, ripe fruit straightens and focuses like a laser with cool blue fruits and menthol touches supported by the grippy, salty tannins that keep the mouth full of texture. A serious wine yet nuanced, pure and fresh. Perhaps not the weight you’d usually expect, but this has total charm and really delivers an enjoyable, cellarable wine."

THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Chocolate-covered plums, black cherries, flowers, espresso, spice, and licorice create the intense perfume. The palate offers an elegant, firm, classy profile, which is the perfect backdrop for all the ripe, dark, red pit fruits, cocoa, and salty chocolate. There is intensity. vibrancy, and a regal, structure with a long, complex finish here that really works. As I wrote in my barrel tastings, in some ways, this reminds me of the best attributes from previous classic vintages that are now aged into maturity. Drink from 2027-2060."

WINE ENTHUSIAST: "Fresh aromas of blackberries are an enticing entry into a wine with ripe tannins. Clay with iron in the soil gives an important structure and layers of black currant fruits along with tannins. This is a big wine worth aging. Drink from 2028."

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "While the 2021 Trotanoy is the most muscular, structured wine in the Mouiex portfolio this year, by Trotanoy's standards, the wine is remarkably supple and charming, and it will only require a modicum of cellaring, even if it will reward more. Offering up aromas of dark cherries, plums and berries mingled with sweet soil tones, licorice and espresso roast, it's medium to full-bodied, with a broad attack, a creamy core of fruit and sweet, powdery tannins that only gently assert themselves on the finish."

JEB DUNNUCK: "Always a powerful, structured wine, the 2021 Château Trotanoy comes from 7.2 hectares of vines on the southern portion of the appellation and gravelly, clay, and iron-laced soils. All Merlot, it offers a deep ruby/plum hue to go with a medium-bodied, concentrated, inward style as well as classic Trotanoy notes of ripe dark fruits, woodsmoke, iron, and leather. Concentrated, with ripe, polished, yet building tannins, it has a seamless, pure mouthfeel, and a great finish. In comparison to the more round, up-front, and pleasure-bent Fleur-Petrus, this is much more straight, deep, and focused. Give bottles a solid 4-6 years and enjoy over the following two decades."

FALSTAFF: "Kräftiges Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, breitere Randaufhellung. Feine rotbeerige Nuancen, frische rote Herzkirschen, Preiselbeeren, zart nach Tabak, feine Kräuterwürze, einladendes Bukett. Saftig, komplex, reife Herzkirschen, finessenreiche Struktur, gut integrierte, tragende Tannine, mineralisch-salzig, ein eleganter Wein mit sehr guter Länge, sicheres Reifepotenzial."

LISA PERROTTI-BROWN: "The 2021 Trotanoy is 100% Merlot and it has a deep garnet-purple color. It sings of black cherries, mulberries, and fresh plums, soon opening out to reveal hints of lilacs, cinnamon stick, and clove oil. The medium-bodied palate delivers taut, muscular fruit with an approachable backbone of velvety tannins and bags of freshness, finishing on a lingering ferrous note. Very skillfully managed, this is a wonderfully accessible, delicious Trotanoy!"

WINE SPECTATOR: "This is silky at first, offering alluring blood orange and raspberry notes laced with rooibos tea, with a subtle mineral hint peeking through. Showing latent length, this puts on considerable weight as it airs in the glass, with dark earth and roasted tobacco notes expanding along with the fruit. Impressive for the vintage. Best from 2026 through 2040. 1,150 cases made, 138 cases imported."