 | 2022 Ch. Trotanoy - Pomerol | € 265,00 (€ 320,65) |
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Trotanoy is een grandioze Pomerol en één van de allergrootste wijnen van Bordeaux. De kleine wijngaard van 7,2 hectare is legendarisch. Dieppaars in kleur met een prachtige neus van cassis. Daarop volgt een onstuimige attaque met zoethout, bramen en pruimen voor het de rijke tanninestructuur ontplooid dat straalt van onder glanzend fruit. De 2022 Trotanoy is een gebalde grand vin de garde en vertegenwoordigt gigantisch potentieel. 96% Merlot en 4% Cabernet Franc. IN DE PERS 97 Neal Martin – vinous.com (Januari 2025) The 2022 Trotanoy needs considerable coaxing from the glass to reveal blackberry, briar and light pencil box scents. The bouquet is so tightly coiled but has wonderful precision. The palate is medium-bodied and very harmonious. Finely chiseled tannins and a crisp line of acidity lead to a judiciously spiced, slightly peppery finish that urges you back for more. This will demand at least a decade in bottle before it shows what it is capable of. Drink 2035-2075. 96-98 Neal Martin – vinous.com (Mei 2023) The 2022 Trotanoy was picked 1-19 September. Clean and precise on the nose, yet obdurate (no surprise) and demanding that you will have to wait at least a decade. This is a Trotanoy that has resolved to keep everything up its sleeve aromatically. The palate is more compelling with its cathedral-like structure, judicious sprinkling of black pepper and its uncompromising grippy yet detailed finish. Immense…in a good way. Drink 2035-2075. 98 Antonio Galloni – vinous.com (Januari 2025) The 2022 Trotanoy is seriously beautiful. Intensely aromatic and also vertical in build, the 2022 speaks to refinement more than anything else. Dark-toned fruit, gravel, incense, licorice, chocolate, lavender and dried herbs open with some coaxing. Above all, I am blown away by the wine's balance and total sense of harmony. Trotanoy is rarely this sensual, especially in the early going. Drink 2032-2072. 95-97 Antonio Galloni – vinous.com (Mei 2023) The 2022 Trotanoy soars out of the glass with captivating aromatics. Surprisingly, Trotanoy, usually a powerhouse, comes across as quite refined at this stage. There's plenty of power, but not quite the imposing breadth of most years. I especially admire its density and overall complexity. Gravel, incense and scorched earth lend gravitas through to the deep, structured finish. 96-98+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown – thewineindependent.com (Mei 2023) A blend of 96% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc, the 2022 Trotanoy is deep garnet-purple in color. It is typically broody to start off with reluctant notions of tar, chargrill, and wild sage eventually giving way to a powerful core of plum preserves, black currant cordial, and blueberry pie, plus hints of rusty nails, cracked black pepper, fertile loam, and smoked meats. The full-bodied palate is so very taut and muscular, you could bounce a dime off it, delivering tightly wound layers of black fruits, earth, and mineral nuances, contained within a rock-solid frame of super-ripe, rounded tannins, finishing with epic length and depth. This is one for the lang-haul! 17,5+/20 James Lawther – jancisrobinson.com (Mei 2023) Aromatically lifted and fresh with more floral notes than usual. Sumptuous fruit on the palate, the texture smooth and refined but a big structure behind. Lively and long. Sublimated power. Drink 2030– 2048. 99-100 James Suckling – jamessuckling.com (April 2023) Floral and tensioned with precision that gives it incredible brightness. It’s dreamy and energetic with purity and serenity. Full-bodied yet structured and polished. Dynamic young wine. Merlot and cabernet franc blend. 97 Jane Anson – janeanson.com (Mei 2023) A masterclass in restrained structure and slow build. Never has the concentrated blue and black fruit and cooling mint balm of Trotanoy been more welcome. Think careful layers of cassis, creme de cassis, liqourice, slate, chocolate bock, rose petals, turmeric, graphite. You can see the intelligence and thought that has gone into capturing the essence of the property in a vintage that many Pomerols have been overwhelmed by. 7,2ha, harvest September 1 to 19. 96-98 Jeb Dunnuck – jebdunnuck.com (Mei 2023) Smoked earth, leather, graphite, and tobacco, as well as a massive amount of ripe red and black fruits, emerge from the 2022 Château Trotanoy, a rich, structured, powerful Pomerol with a stacked mid-palate, building tannins, and a great, great finish. It's one of the few Pomerols that has the capacity to match what they achieved in 2018 and 2020. 98-100 Ella Lister – lefigaro.fr (Mei 2023) - «comme la vue panoramique au sommet d'une montagne» Silencieux et méditatif au nez, un vin encore réservé offrant déjà une pureté grisante de fruits noirs, qui n'est pas sans rappeler la sérénité d'une fin d'après-midi d'été. Ce vin est déjà magnifique en bouche, avec un toucher qui jongle entre une sensation de cachemire, une fraîcheur délicate et une belle puissance. Le résultat est majestueux, comme la vue panoramique au sommet d'une montagne qui demeure impassible depuis des millénaires. 97-99 Jeff Leve – thewinecellarinsider.com (Mei 2023) Lilacs, roses, citrus peel, Asian spice, smoke, espresso, chocolate, and red pit fruits create the intoxicating perfume. On the palate, the wine is equal parts, silk, velvet, lift, and opulence. The fruits deliver purity, persistence, vibrancy, and a velvet-drenched, textual mid-palate, and finish. The wine is deeply concentrated, intense, and light on its feet, making it effortless to drink. The seamless endnotes hold your focus for at least 60 seconds. The wine blends 96% Merlot with 4% Cabernet Franc. 14.7% ABV, 3.9 pH. Yields were were only 22 hectoliters per hectare. The harvest took place September 1 - September 19. Drink from 2028-2055. 97-98 Alexandre Ma – alexandrema.com (Mei 2023) 99 Jean Marc Quarin – Quarin.fr (Mei 2023) 94 William Kelley – The Wine Advocate - robertparker.com (Maart 2025) The 2022 Trotanoy is very ripe and muscular, offering up aromas of sweet cassis, dark chocolate, baked plums and creamy new oak, followed by a full-bodied, firm and tannic palate, concluding with a heady, raisin-inflected finish. This powerful, sun-kissed Pomerol carries the biggest structural payload in the Mouiex portfolio this year. Drink 2027-2042. 94-95+ William Kelley – The Wine Advocate Issue 266 - robertparker.com (April 2023) The 2022 Trotanoy offers up rich aromas of blackberries, cherries, licorice and sweet spices, followed by a full-bodied, rich and tannic palate that's broad shouldered, powerful and concentrated. As ever, this is the most muscular, structured, robust wine in the Mouiex portfolio, a shorter than usual maceration notwithstanding, and it will require patience. TrotanoyHet basisbeginsel dat Trotanoy leidt is superlatieve majesteit. In zijn zelfzekere en beredeneerde stijl, vertoont het de absolute perfectie die slechts enkele Grands Vins kunnen bereiken. Trotanoy is oud Frans voor « trop anoi » of « trop ennuie » (waarmee verwezen wordt naar de lastige bodembewerking). De wijngaard van zo'n 7,2 hectare is één van de best georiënteerde percelen van Pomerol en is sinds 1953 eigendom van Ets Jean-Pierre Moueix. De bodems kunnen we opsplitsen in enerzijds graves rustend op klei en anderzijds "argiles noires profondes". Beide rusten op een substraat van "crasse de fer" die de wijnen zowel kracht, diepte als complexiteit bezorgen. De wijngaard bleef gedeeltelijk gespaard van de grote vorst die Bordeaux teisterde in de nacht van 19 op 20 februari 1956 en benadert een gemiddelde leeftijd van 35-40 jaar. Hij wordt over het algemeen geplukt over drie halve dagen. De vinificatie gebeurt in ciment en de élevage in de helft nieuwe eik. Trotanoy is uiterst begerenswaardig en grote millésimes mogen vele decennia lang worden gekelderd. Er worden jaarlijks slechts zo’n 2.000 kistjes gemaakt. Trotanoy zet een indrukwekkende reeks prachtige millésimes verder. Trotanoy 2005 tot 2012 rivaliseren telkens met Pétrus. Geen enkele Pomerol, tenzij misschien Lafeur, kan deze status ambiëren. Vroeger, tussen 1960 en 1975, was dit al het geval en nu dus opnieuw... MoueixChristian Moueix is net zoals zijn legendarische vader, Jean-Pierre Moueix, vereenzelvigd met Pomerol. Na zijn studies aan UC Davis eind de jaren 1960, vervoegde hij de Ets. Jean-Pierre Moueix waarvan hij de leiding nam. Zijn zoon Edouard staat nu aan zijn zijde. Hij bestuurt een indrukwekkend imperium dat ondermeer La Fleur Pétrus, Trotanoy en Hosanna omvat in Pomerol, Bélair Monange in Saint Emilion en Dominus in Napa Valley. In 2008 werd hij “Decanter Man of the Year”. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||