2024 Trotanoy
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One of my favorite Château on the upper plateau in Pomerol, the 2024 Château Trotanoy is just about all Merlot yet includes a tiny splash (0.5%) of Cabernet Franc. Harvested from September 17-28 and aging in 50% new oak, its deeper ruby/purple opaque hue is followed by classic Trotanoy notes of ripe black cherries, currants, iron, graphite, and smoked tobacco. With medium-bodied richness, rock solid concentration, and the focused, structured style of the terroir, it's going to be up with the top wines in the vintage.
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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The 2024 Trotanoy is rich and muscular by the standards of the vintage, offering up aromas of minty blackberries, cherries and spices followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered palate with a dense core of fruit and plenty of structuring tannin that asserts itself on the youthfully chewy finish.
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.
The 2024 Trotanoy is super-classic. Vertical in build, the 2024 stains the palate with copious dark-toned fruit, graphite, licorice, dried herbs and lavender. It's a beautifully proportioned wine from start to finish. All the Trotanoy signatures are present, but without all of the tannic heft of some of the more imposing recent vintages. That's not a bad thing at all.
About the producer
Château Trotanoy was one of the first recognised Premier Cru sites on the Pomerol plateau, with records dating back to the late 1700s. Even back in the nineteenth century it was seen as the best site in Pomerol second only to Vieux Château Certan.