Red Wine: 2013 | Chateau Trotanoy
Barrel Sample. Concentrated and powerful, this shows that the vintage can produce fine wines. It is structured and solid, balanced by rich black fruits. The combination brings out a great balance, and promises to mature well.
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Producer: Chateau Trotanoy
Ratings: WA | 97 WS | 90-93
Vintage: 2013
Size: 750ml
ABV: 13,5%
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend, Cabernet Franc, Merlot
Country/Region: France, Bordeaux
Barrel Sample. Concentrated and powerful, this shows that the vintage can produce fine wines. It is structured and solid, balanced by rich black fruits. The combination brings out a great balance, and promises to mature well.
Reviews:
- Wine Advocate: Only 1,000 cases of the 2013 Trotanoy were produced (about half of the usual production). One of the stars as well as a major sleeper of the vintage, it is an atypically big, rich, full-boned effort with enough tannin and depth to require 2-3 years of cellaring. There is lots of purity as well as a strong, underlying, earthy, iron-like component intermixed with plenty of black cherry and black currant fruit, and hints of licorice and truffles. This impressive medium to full-bodied wine is atypically concentrated and rich for the vintage. Drink it over the next 12-15 years.
- Wine Spectator: Quite fresh in style, with almost racy red and black currant fruit alternating with raspberry coulis and damson plum notes. A singed mesquite edge frames the finish, with a lingering echo of graphite. Tasted non-blind.
Producer Information
Chteau 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. Chteau Trotanoy is located on the western side of the Pomerol plateau, not far from Ptrus 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. Chteau Trotanoy has been a part of ngociant JP Moueix since 1953, alongside Ptrus.
