Trotanoy 2015

Tasted blind. Dark and lustrous. Sweet and round. Lots of vivacity and really together and gorgeous with great intensity. Very long but slightly drying on the end.Drink 2023-2033

Managed by the talented Moueix team, the 2015 Château Trotanoy is a ripe, hedonistic, heady beauty that boasts awesome notes of ripe cherry fruit, toasted spices, fruit cake, and forest floor, with more floral and incense nuances coming through with time in the glass. A blend of 93% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc, this full-bodied, sexy, exotic, and beautifully textured 2015 has sweet tannin, moderate acidity, and a great finish. It needs 4-5 years of bottle age to round into form but will impressive for 20+ years. 2022 - 2042

The fruit on the nose is rich and ripe the palate fleshy and supple. Ripe black plum on the mid palate is backed by fresher bramble slightly lighter at the back but there is sweetness and depth on the finish. 2025-40

The aroma of this wine is so enticing that you want to dab some behind your ears. Floral,leafy and very pure, with deftly interwoven oak, succulent tannins, balancing acidity and lotsof dark plum and bramble fruit. Fresh, yet extremely well structured. Drink: 2025-40

Trotanoy is powerful and omnipotent in 2015 with considerable structure and a very dry, long, domineering finish. Thegrip of tension on the finish is incredible and it heightens the briary, exotic notes which cavort on the surface of thisdoom-laded potion. Trotanoy is angry and it wants everyone to know. When you drink this wine, in two or three decade’stime, it will have reconciled its issues with world and will presumably present itself as a mild-mannered Titan, but forthe time being it is raucously tannic and immensely impressive.

The depth of fruit and length to this is spectacular with blackberry, wet earth, dark bitter chocolate and blueberry character. It’s full and powerful and absolutely seamless. Perhaps the greatest wine ever made here. 93% merlot and 7% cabernet franc.

Composed of 93% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc, the 2015 Trotanoy reveals a medium to deep garnet-purple color and comes prancing out of the glass with the most striking black fruit preserves, plum pudding, red currant jelly and blueberry compote notions, followed up by nuances of rose petals, chocolate box, licorice and menthol plus a waft of wild mushrooms. Full-bodied, rich and decadent, it fills the palate with generous perfumed black and blue fruit layers with a seductive frame of velvety tannins and seamless freshness, finishing very long and very minerally. 2023 - 2053

The 2015 Trotanoy has an intense bouquet, a mixture of red and black fruit, still with a little new oak to be subsumed but there is wonderful delineation here with hints of bay leaf and smoke emerging with time. The palate is grippy on the entry. This is a Pomerol with great backbone and structure and yet there is also wondrous delineation and complexity, a crescendo of flavor with black truffle and allspice emerging toward the persistent finish. Outstanding. Anticipated maturity: 2023 - 2055.

The 2015 Trotanoy is a blend of 93% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc. It has a fragrant bouquet, unusually understated and introverted for Trotanoy, with tightly wound, gravel-scented black fruit, touches of dried orange peel and truffle in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, tensile tannin. Again, this feels compact, dense, a coiled spring perhaps, but there is plenty of energy here. Perhaps in the long-term, the Hosanna and the La Fleur Petrus might be the picks from JP Moueix in this great Pomerol vintage, but Trotanoy always springs a surprise once in bottle. Trotanoy - an enigma eternal, but we would not want it any other way. Drink 2022-2045.

Notably dark crimson. Very savoury, with marked acidity and freshness. Yet it is more concentrated than any other J-P Moueix wine. A slow burner but should be exciting eventually. Drink 2025-2040