Jeb Dunnuck im April 2022:
Reminding me a little of the 1998, the 2019 Château Trotanoy is all Merlot sourced from a 7-hectare vineyard planted on dark clay and gravelly soils. A prodigious wine in every way, it offers a serious, dense, powerful, full-bodied style as well as notes of ripe black cherries, damp earth, tobacco, cedar pencil, and graphite. As with the other top wines in the vintage, it has an incredible sense of purity and precision, building, firm tannins, awesome mid-palate depth, and a huge finish. It's not for those seeking instant gratification and is much more structured and backward than I would have thought from barrel. It needs a solid decade of bottle age and will have 40+ years of longevity. It's another brilliant, brilliant wine from this team that I wish every reader could taste.
James Suckling über den Chateau Trotanoy 2019 Pomerol:
16 Jan, 2022 – Aromas of peanut brittle, blackberries, crushed stones, violets and blueberries. Full-bodied and powerful with layers of creamy, velvety and juicy tannins. A classic Trotanoy with true character of itself. Wonderful length and character. Best after 2027.
Antonio Galloni (Vinous) bewertet den Chateau Trotanoy 2019 Pomerol:
The 2019 Trotanoy is powerful and brooding, and yet it is also less forbidding at this stage than most vintages. The feeling is one of breadth and gravitas, as black fruit, gravel, smoke, tar and incense lend distinctly sepia-toned inflections throughout. Trotanoy needs time, as it always does, but the 2019 should start drinking well on the earlier side, in relative terms, of course.
Und Neal Martin (Vinous) beschreibt denChateau Trotanoy 2019 Pomerol:
The 2019 Trotanoy is blessed with ineffable delineation on the pure, focused nose, which features touches of pencil lead and sous-bois embroidered through a mélange of red and black fruit. Astounding. The palate is perfectly balanced with seamlessly integrated oak and a cashmere texture, complete and oozing effortless class. I don’t know whether to drink or elope with this Pomerol. Better, perhaps, to stick it away in a cool damp cellar for a decade and then make all your friends jealous when you serve it. A serious contender for wine of the vintage.
Für den Wine Spectator verköstigte James Molesworth den Chateau Trotanoy 2019 Pomerol:
Dense and ripe but with a sleekness and sense of reserve, as the core of cassis, blackberry paste and fig pâte de fruit notes is flanked by warm earth, roasted alder and tobacco notes. The finish is underscored by a bolt of cast iron, with everything knitting steadily through to the end. Offers a serious tarry grip, too. Best from 2026 through 2042. 1,250 cases made, 162 cases imported.
Der Chateau Trotanoy 2019 Pomerol am Gaumen der Falstaff-Verköstiger:
Dunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, dezente Randaufhellung. Dunkle Kirschen, aber auch feine rotbeerige Nuancen, zart nach Lakritze und Nougat, feiner Edelholzanklang. Stoffig, schokoladig, gleichzeitig voller Kirschfrucht und Frische, tragende, reife Tannine, mineralisch und anhaftend, zeigt sehr große Länge, wirkt bei aller Kraft ungemein lebendig im Abgang, bleibt sehr lange haften, großes Zukunftspotenzial.
