2024 Trotanoy

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

A serious Trotanoy, as you would expect in the vintage, this has juice and restraint and a slow build. It grows on me more and more as it opens, spiralling with violet and peony flowers, graphite and slate, but it has less of the immediacy of La Fleur-Pétrus, and in this vintage, you might want to take your pleasures where you can find them. Instead this is one to bet on, knowing the exceptional ability of this estate to deliver over the long-term, even in difficult vintages. 50% new oak. Harvest 17 to 28 September, no chaptilisation. No plans for a 2nd wine (Esperance de Trotanoy) in this vintage.
94/100 Jane Anson

(Pomerol; 99.5% Merlot; 0.5% Cabernet Franc; tasted at JP Moueix in Libourne). Very elegant. Intensely dark to the core with lots of graphite generously enrobing the black cherry and crushed raspberry and blueberry fruit. There’s a little lilac florality, but it’s more subtle and disguised than in La Fleur-Pétrus and overall, this is a little less expressive for now. It’s deeper and richer in a way on the palate, with more gravitas and profundity, more concentration and density but perhaps at this stage a little less clarity and delineation. This will need time, rather like Certan de May. It’s a little difficult to read at this stage, but it’s definitely very impressive – and as it starts to open in the glass it does start to express more that lush, plump cedar and violet element that makes one’s heart beat faster for Trotanoy. Disguised power, subtle elegance and considerable promise.
95-97/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business

Deep garnet-purple colored. As usual at this nascent state, the 2024 Trotanoy is a little closed to start off, needing some swirling to unlock notes of fresh black raspberries and blackberries, followed by hints of tar, crushed rocks, and wild sage. The medium-bodied palate delivers mouth-filling red and black berry flavors with earthy undertones and compelling freshness, framed by firm, grainy tannins, finishing long and minerally. Beautiful!
93-95/100+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown; The Wine Independent