From 750ml, with mid-high shoulder fill….a bottle I’ve owned for ~20 years. Poured ruby red with just faint aging around the rim. After a slow start the fruit filled out further and achieved a nice balance with other components, which itself is a good sign. wonderful cigar, black pepper, sous bois, and delicate red fruit, it is no longer at its apogee but I’d say it’s gently on the downslope. It might sound a little mawkish but I felt a certain connection with the wine on that level. I’d be pulling corks to appreciate what is still an excellent wine and no doubt one of the best wines from this vintage
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A bit dirty and heavy initially, but cleaned up and improved quite a lot as the night progressed. Maybe not a perfect example, this bottle… but quite enjoyable in the end.
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Wow, simply stunning, and easily the best '75 I've had to date. Initially this opens with some tea leaf and mint notes, which give way to plum and eventually bright wild strawberry notes. This shows quite the evolution in flavor profile with aeration, moving from black to red fruits. It is a seamless and elegant wine with only a hint of those '75 tannins on the back end. Quite honestly, this is one of the top 5 wines I've had in my life.
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Thanks Jim brought this wine to serve in a double blind guess game. We all thought this was an aged Burgundy, pale brown color, floural nose and medium body with minerals. A wonderful wine!
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KYD BYO (Koan): Absolutely classic Bdx and an amazing performance. This is without a doubt the best wine I have ever tasted from this vintage. It is off course showing some age but still has some young fruit. Has a good intensity and slightly sweet fruit balanced by a lovely acidity. The tannin structure is nice and not "tough/harsh" which I normally find in this vintage! Amazing wine!! 96-97p
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Unfortunately slightly oxidized, which was enough to mask a lot of the qualities. But this nevertheless seems to be a very full, very masculine, very dark fruited and monolithic wine that I would probably like quite a lot. Alas.
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Dinner at Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck. Light garnet. Prominent secondary and tertiary aromas on the nose, characteristic of aged Bordeaux. Smooth, well rounded tannins. Distinct forest floor and mushrooms on the palate, delicate fruit, very elegant. This is a graceful wine, and has aged well.
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Chinese food and old Bordeaux? Sure! (Q by Peter Chang): Popped and poured. At first it did not seem nearly as impressive as what I had described as a “100-point wine” that fellow wine drinker Kevin Shin brought to a dinner a few months ago in Washington D.C. at Black Salt restaurant. But I do believe that that previous bottle – coming from the same “batch” Kevin said – had been decanted beforehand, because this second experience grew into the red wine of the lunch, if not the wine of the lunch! Compared to the Palmer, a deeper and riper sweet plum and dark fruit nose, presaging richness and depth. Over time in glass – I stress, over time – it got better and more multilayered, because the pop and pour impression on the palate is underwhelming. Within about one hour in glass, a gloriously ripe and truffled aspect dominates like perfume, and then turns to fine dark chocolate (not a modern caricature of chocolate, but elegance enveloping opulence). And as last time, I just wanted more of it. Thanks Kevin.
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Bordeaux and Peking Duck (Q by Peter Chang - Bethesda, Maryland): Pop and pour, not terribly expressive and the palate is a bit thin. With 30 minutes of air, beautiful complex nose displaying subtle black fruit, black cherry, blackberry jelly, caramel, black truffle, mocha, cep, leather and earth. Perfectly harmonious sensual palate, incredibly silky and polished. This gets better with air, drinking wonderfully.
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Trotanoy Vertical with Edouard Moueix (Nomad): For me this wine fell a bit flat. It lacked the nose of the other 1970s although it was better on the palate. Other (knowledgable) tasters noted that the 1975 is typically an epic vintage of Trotanoy but this may just not have been the best bottle. Trotanoy vertical 1945-1982 (+1998, 2009,2010)
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2017 Villa d’Este Wine Symposium - Kelly and Kevin's excellent adventure; 11/9/2017-11/14/2017 (Villa D’este, Lake Como and Milan): Pop and pour not as expressive as the last bottle less than a month ago, showing a bid of fine sediment resulting in a hint of metal in the nose. Still complex nose displaying black fruit, caramel, leather and dark milk chocolate. Excellent concentration, opulent black fruit, silky, good acidity and mineral, nicely integrated tannins and a long sweet red fruit and dark milk chocolate driven finish. Good showing but clearly suffered from travel shock.
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The Judgement of Paris - reloaded: This wine had it all. Wonderful aromas of earthy notes with Christmas cake, dark fruit. Soft mouthfeel, supporting bitterness at the end to buffer the richness. A very impressive aged Bordeaux. Confirms Trotanoy as my favorite Pomerol wine.
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A lost Friday afternoon gathering – 75 Trotanoy, 07 Roumier BM and 10 Jobard Les Tillets that we all guessed at the Roulot. (Blacksalt, Washington DC): Incredibly complex noble nose displaying subtle black fruit, caramel, milk chocolate, mocha, black truffle, lactic, cedar, leather and mineral. Excellent concentration, unbelievably layered subtle black fruit, silky and polished, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, still a hint of tannins and the finish that never ends. The nose and the palate of this particular bottle is so clean which is unusual from the 70’s Bordeaux. I am flabbergasted by the incredible showing. I recently acquired nine bottles and I am ecstatic.
I got curious and checked Bob’s old tn from Feb, 1996.
“This wine has been drinking splendidly for several years, exhibiting fabulous mocha/toffee/jammy black-cherry aromas in a complex, sweet, fragrant bouquet. Full-bodied, splendidly concentrated, velvety-textured, with a firm finish, this is a weighty, rich, complex, great vintage for Trotanoy.”
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1970s Bordeaux tasting (Wine Watch, Fort Lauderdale, Florida): I agree with SDR -- something was not right with this bottle. There was not TCA or VA, but something was off. It seemed very advanced with some oxidative notes. Dried cherry, curry, roasted meat, and cigar tobacco. Clunky on the palate. Abbreviated finish.
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Is it flawed? Maybe, but since I have never tasted it before, I don't know for sure. Highly unusual aroma of beef bouillon and tomato. Very advanced color, brown at the edge. Is it madeirized? It comes from a cellar from WW where every previous bottle has been impeccable and this bottle has ullage almost into neck. I don't think it is was corked either but something was not quite right. I thought it was "interesting" but no amount of wishful thinking could make it enjoyable. I should have poured it down the sink and brought something else to the restaurant.
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Hillside - Dirty Habit - Nopa (SF): Green tobacco pyrazines but developed. Slight rich olive and a bit of chocolate dried blackcurrant. Med plus body. Med plus tannins- still grippy. Med acid. Really plush slightly fading Black fruit. Extended finish.
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After two hours in decanter, this dark red beauty was pristine. The nose was forward with hints of tobacco and cedar and some tar and some dark berries. The full body was mouth-filling with tones of blackberry, currants, and had a great lingering finish.
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This was clearly the best bottle of 1975 Trotanoy I've ever tasted. Its opulent, lush, plummy, truffle laden qualities were impossible to resist. Sip after sip provided a true Pomerol tasting experience.
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holding up fantastically well, it's fragrant and mouthfilling with no signs of age catching up.
well stored bottle with BN fill level. black fruits, dark cherry liqueur and coffee dominate....it's seamless with no hard edges. doesn't taste a day over 25 years!
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From magnum. White pepper, sweet spice, red cherry, and some dark earth. An overall sweetness to the nose. Spearmint on the back of the nose. Blackberry and black cherry on the palate, light tar, sweet flowers and white and black pepper on the backpalate. Paired with roasted venison but has not yet developed the full array of secondary elements to pair perfectly. This has a long life in front of it, and in this format is at least ten years away from full maturity. 94-95
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Very dark opaque color. Very powerful aromas of plum, rhubarb and graphite. Firm tannins with bracing acidity. Flavors of graphite, soy, spice and plum. This drinks like an exotic cocktail. This has at least a few years left on it. Outstanding. ++
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Tobacco, floral, cherry and cassis on the nose. Medium intensity still, with very good balance and length. Though it is holding up, this bottle was a drink now proposition.
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This is one sexy beast! Plush, rich and lush with a stunning array of scents featuring notes of plums, raspberries, cherries, spices and flint. Velvety, rich. long and deep dark fruit filled finish.
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Thick blackish color. Funky nose of tar, underbrush, black plums with a hint of VA. This is a fantastic, wild wine that seems to be at its peak right now. The tannins are fully resolved and the wine is thick and unctious with lovely deep flavors of black plums, violets, all-spice and a hint of volatile compounds. There is a lovely complexity on the finish and the wine is soft and substantial at the same time. A fabulous old-styled Pomerol.
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2012 - Mr. K birthday celebration (Chui Huay Lim (醉花林) club - TeoChew Cuisine): Opened for 2hrs. Medium garnet core with light brownish rim. Stunningly expressive on the nose. The bouquet is absolutely intriguing and has a nice depth and complexity in it: healthy sweet dark plum and blackcurrant in the core with old saddle leather, earth, mint, wild meatiness and floral! Medium bodied, a little bit soft and lean at first, but with my previous exp with this wine, I knew it will put on weight and complexity in the glass. Indeed, in about 15-25mins, this fully matured Trotanoy has finally fully opened up and is in a total harmonious now, so seductive and elegance. The freshness in this wine is amazing, a well-stored bottle. Still possesses good structure and a bit of tannin for the grip, and gradually expand on the palate with excellent mid palate depth, with layer of sweet dark fruits, cloves, cinnamon, leather and spicy tone. Long finish with gentle grip, lingering effortlessly with roasted herbs, sweet currant juice. While this is smaller scale and less intense compared to the 1970 but the sexiness and finesse is all the same.
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opened a bottle that had a top shoulder fill. the color was very translucent with amber around the edges, it had me concerned the wine might be a touch oxidated. not to worry, when i took my first whiff i could tell this wine had this some life. Definitely mature but at the same time giving evidence that this was a powerful wine in its youth...it combined essence of black fruits with more mellow tones of tea and mocha. And it follows through with similar characteristics in taste...it has retained the full glory of its sweetness. For the first hour it was restrained showing it's age: mellow, integrated with a sweet entry and a long finish...and I was probably thinking of a score two points lower but certainly very favorable. And then it took off. It combined a mellow molasses element with hint of tannin emerging to give it some bite and it began to provide a nice peppery sensation in the midpalate. As always with a great Bordeaux it seems the last sip is the tastiest.
For my taste I prefer this to the 1970
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From an excellent looking bottle with a very top shoulder fill, this wine had a deep purple center with orange/red rims. The medium intensity nose featured leather, black cherries, and soil.
In the mouth, the wine was ripe and round with an attractive mouth feel. It had very good acidity and length. The flavors suggested clay soil. While the wine was attractive, it did not score higher as I felt the flavors were a touch "stewed".
Bottle variation seems to be rampant with this wine. This bottle appeared to me to be near its peak but it should hold for many years. Enjoy.
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1996 Dujac CDLR & 1975 Trotanoy: Alcohol :: NA Lively garnet core with brick rim. The aromas was soft, but deeply focus. Toward the end of the dinner, the aromas evolved into highly complex, huge depth with its seductive Asian spices, flora, old saddle leather, earth, autumn tea leaves along with sweet pure dark plum and dried fig. Absolutely captivating. Palate wise, it was similar to the nose that is quite lean, soft with sweet fruits, not really complex and finished with medium length. With time, this lovely, poise, sexy lady started to pull herself together, showing great harmonious, complexity and depth. Sophisticated. So velvet, so fresh with really complex flavors that's is hard to dissect that coated the palate along with a touch of super silky tannin for a better depth and mouth feel and the finish just wont let go with mineral, dried tea leaves after taste. The wine hold herself very well till the end of the dinner with no sign of tired. This is a top class Pomerol. Buy - Yes.
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Truffle, sweet black cherry, licorice, plum, exotic spice and dark chocolate aromas jump from the bottle as soon as the cork was popped. Supple, opulent, rich, concentrated waves of velvety textured, ripe, spicy black cherries. mocha and truffle coat your palate. This complete wine is drinking perfectly today.
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From a good looking bottle with a bottom neck fill, this wine looked good with a deep red center and oranging rims. Not surprisingly, this wine needed 4 hours of air to show its best. The nose was quite closed at first but blossomed to be medium intensity with a focus on black fruit, mocha, tomato, corriander, and soil.
The mouth echoed the nose except the fruit seemed a bit "redder" than in the nose and there was a bit more soil. The wine was attractive, ripe, and round in the mouth with an easy to appreciate plush texture. While the acidity was on the low side but it meshed well with the light, rounded tannin; all of this endowed the wine with a reasonably long finish. This is drinking well now (with air) but it should easily last 10+ years.
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1975 Trotanoy was the star of the day! Truffle, chocolate, black cherry, licorice, earth and dried flower aromatics were easy to find. Rich, full bodied, round in texture and mouth filling, this elegant wine is still going strong. This is one of the top wines from this correctly maligned year. 95 Pts
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Not quite gone, but definitely oxidizing into hints of syrup. Nose is musty, aged Bordeaux, hint of moist floor or wet dog. There is still fruit there, with sweet syrupy berries, and more smoke as it opened up. But the overriding sweetness is like when you first bite into a PopTart, and sadly just slightly past its prime. Mouthfeel is substantial and very lush. Aged in perfect conditions for 30+ years. Cork in fine shape.
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This wine was from an impeccable source and looked great with a very high sholder fill. The color was deep red in the center with notable orange/tan at the rim. The nose was a bit muted at first showing some raisins and some alcohol. The wine was very smooth and muted in the mouth as well, almost watery. While the nose got more complex, it never lost that raisiny, vin santo quality.
The flavors were much better in the mouth after 2 hours as the focus became mocha and red fruits. The raisiny quality was in the background and served to add complexity. The texture of the mouth was incredible. It was so smooth and refined. The wine had nice light, rounded tannin and decent length. It seems likely that this bottle was a bit impared because, other than the texture, this wine was not 95 points on a Parker scale.
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Opened 5 hours ahead of drinking. Nose was promising, with fruit and complexity but a bit sharp. Cork left out of bottle and rechecked hourly - after 2 hours nose was getting more complex, small amount poured out and tasted, a bit acidic but nice comple
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Sadly my father's last bottle. We weren't quite sure if Lafite was control of this property in 1975. Very elegant, soft and refined. Classy. There is just something about a good, old Pomerol. I could drink this forever.
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Drank at Barcelona. Decanted (by staff, fairly poorly) about one hour before drinking. Color was crystal clear garnet, orange around the rim. The nose was incredibly accessible, loads of candied cherries and toffee, along with whiffs of minerals. Mouth was very well balanced but a git tired, with a lovely dusty element that carried from the back of the mouth into the finish. This wine was opened for a thirtieth wedding anniversary; I can only hope that my wedding year provides such an amazing, long-lived, decadent treat. 50+5+14+16+9=94.
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With K at home at dinner (cheese risotto). Medium-dark garnet, slight orange at the rim. Bouquet is absolutely fantastic. Typical '75 though--quite deep, and dark chocolate with cocoa. On the palate, full, rich, chewy. Dark chocolate. Very nice, plump, well-stuffed wine. 5-12-16-8: 91/100.
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1/20/2023 - ShadowIII Likes this wine: 94 Points
Amazingly youthful, still dark ruby, currants, cassis, blackberry, leather, silky tannins, great balance, long finish
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1/2/2023 - kr522 wrote: 94 Points
From 750ml, with mid-high shoulder fill….a bottle I’ve owned for ~20 years. Poured ruby red with just faint aging around the rim. After a slow start the fruit filled out further and achieved a nice balance with other components, which itself is a good sign. wonderful cigar, black pepper, sous bois, and delicate red fruit, it is no longer at its apogee but I’d say it’s gently on the downslope. It might sound a little mawkish but I felt a certain connection with the wine on that level. I’d be pulling corks to appreciate what is still an excellent wine and no doubt one of the best wines from this vintage
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6/21/2022 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 93 Points
A bit dirty and heavy initially, but cleaned up and improved quite a lot as the night progressed. Maybe not a perfect example, this bottle… but quite enjoyable in the end.
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6/20/2022 - GrapeScott wrote: 96 Points
Wow, simply stunning, and easily the best '75 I've had to date. Initially this opens with some tea leaf and mint notes, which give way to plum and eventually bright wild strawberry notes. This shows quite the evolution in flavor profile with aeration, moving from black to red fruits. It is a seamless and elegant wine with only a hint of those '75 tannins on the back end. Quite honestly, this is one of the top 5 wines I've had in my life.
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12/22/2021 - BLam Likes this wine: 93 Points
Thanks Jim brought this wine to serve in a double blind guess game. We all thought this was an aged Burgundy, pale brown color, floural nose and medium body with minerals. A wonderful wine!
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6/11/2021 - canan wrote: 97 Points
KYD BYO (Koan): Absolutely classic Bdx and an amazing performance. This is without a doubt the best wine I have ever tasted from this vintage.
It is off course showing some age but still has some young fruit. Has a good intensity and slightly sweet fruit balanced by a lovely acidity. The tannin structure is nice and not "tough/harsh" which I normally find in this vintage!
Amazing wine!! 96-97p
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6/17/2020 - Burgnick wrote: flawed
Maderised.
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9/6/2019 - BradE wrote:
A good bottle and a wine I enjoyed. I don’t rate it as high as most critics and CT reviewers, but it’s in a very good space.
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11/3/2018 - RockinCabs wrote: flawed
Oxidative and definately off tonight. From Magnum.
Looking closely there is a beautiful red/black fruited wine underneath with toffee, roasted cherry and smoke notes. Just not quite right tonight.
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11/3/2018 - englishman's claret wrote:
Unfortunately slightly oxidized, which was enough to mask a lot of the qualities. But this nevertheless seems to be a very full, very masculine, very dark fruited and monolithic wine that I would probably like quite a lot. Alas.
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11/1/2018 - SGoenophile Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dinner at Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck. Light garnet. Prominent secondary and tertiary aromas on the nose, characteristic of aged Bordeaux. Smooth, well rounded tannins. Distinct forest floor and mushrooms on the palate, delicate fruit, very elegant. This is a graceful wine, and has aged well.
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5/23/2018 - dcwino wrote: flawed
Brother Jeff's visit to DC - Mostly Bordeaux (The Grill Room at the Rosewood DC): Corked.
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1/29/2018 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 98 Points
Chinese food and old Bordeaux? Sure! (Q by Peter Chang): Popped and poured. At first it did not seem nearly as impressive as what I had described as a “100-point wine” that fellow wine drinker Kevin Shin brought to a dinner a few months ago in Washington D.C. at Black Salt restaurant. But I do believe that that previous bottle – coming from the same “batch” Kevin said – had been decanted beforehand, because this second experience grew into the red wine of the lunch, if not the wine of the lunch! Compared to the Palmer, a deeper and riper sweet plum and dark fruit nose, presaging richness and depth. Over time in glass – I stress, over time – it got better and more multilayered, because the pop and pour impression on the palate is underwhelming. Within about one hour in glass, a gloriously ripe and truffled aspect dominates like perfume, and then turns to fine dark chocolate (not a modern caricature of chocolate, but elegance enveloping opulence). And as last time, I just wanted more of it. Thanks Kevin.
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1/28/2018 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points
Bordeaux and Peking Duck (Q by Peter Chang - Bethesda, Maryland): Pop and pour, not terribly expressive and the palate is a bit thin. With 30 minutes of air, beautiful complex nose displaying subtle black fruit, black cherry, blackberry jelly, caramel, black truffle, mocha, cep, leather and earth. Perfectly harmonious sensual palate, incredibly silky and polished. This gets better with air, drinking wonderfully.
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1/18/2018 - nywine68 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Trotanoy Vertical with Edouard Moueix (Nomad): For me this wine fell a bit flat. It lacked the nose of the other 1970s although it was better on the palate. Other (knowledgable) tasters noted that the 1975 is typically an epic vintage of Trotanoy but this may just not have been the best bottle. Trotanoy vertical 1945-1982 (+1998, 2009,2010)
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11/10/2017 - dcwino wrote: 96 Points
2017 Villa d’Este Wine Symposium - Kelly and Kevin's excellent adventure; 11/9/2017-11/14/2017 (Villa D’este, Lake Como and Milan): Pop and pour not as expressive as the last bottle less than a month ago, showing a bid of fine sediment resulting in a hint of metal in the nose. Still complex nose displaying black fruit, caramel, leather and dark milk chocolate. Excellent concentration, opulent black fruit, silky, good acidity and mineral, nicely integrated tannins and a long sweet red fruit and dark milk chocolate driven finish. Good showing but clearly suffered from travel shock.
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11/1/2017 - Collector1855 wrote: 98 Points
The Judgement of Paris - reloaded: This wine had it all. Wonderful aromas of earthy notes with Christmas cake, dark fruit. Soft mouthfeel, supporting bitterness at the end to buffer the richness. A very impressive aged Bordeaux. Confirms Trotanoy as my favorite Pomerol wine.
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10/20/2017 - dcwino wrote: 99 Points
A lost Friday afternoon gathering – 75 Trotanoy, 07 Roumier BM and 10 Jobard Les Tillets that we all guessed at the Roulot. (Blacksalt, Washington DC): Incredibly complex noble nose displaying subtle black fruit, caramel, milk chocolate, mocha, black truffle, lactic, cedar, leather and mineral. Excellent concentration, unbelievably layered subtle black fruit, silky and polished, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, still a hint of tannins and the finish that never ends. The nose and the palate of this particular bottle is so clean which is unusual from the 70’s Bordeaux. I am flabbergasted by the incredible showing. I recently acquired nine bottles and I am ecstatic.
I got curious and checked Bob’s old tn from Feb, 1996.
“This wine has been drinking splendidly for several years, exhibiting fabulous mocha/toffee/jammy black-cherry aromas in a complex, sweet, fragrant bouquet. Full-bodied, splendidly concentrated, velvety-textured, with a firm finish, this is a weighty, rich, complex, great vintage for Trotanoy.”
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2/1/2017 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 87 Points
1970s Bordeaux tasting (Wine Watch, Fort Lauderdale, Florida): I agree with SDR -- something was not right with this bottle. There was not TCA or VA, but something was off. It seemed very advanced with some oxidative notes. Dried cherry, curry, roasted meat, and cigar tobacco. Clunky on the palate. Abbreviated finish.
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9/10/2016 - sdr Does not like this wine: 78 Points
Is it flawed? Maybe, but since I have never tasted it before, I don't know for sure. Highly unusual aroma of beef bouillon and tomato. Very advanced color, brown at the edge. Is it madeirized? It comes from a cellar from WW where every previous bottle has been impeccable and this bottle has ullage almost into neck. I don't think it is was corked either but something was not quite right. I thought it was "interesting" but no amount of wishful thinking could make it enjoyable. I should have poured it down the sink and brought something else to the restaurant.
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7/16/2016 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 89 Points
Hillside - Dirty Habit - Nopa (SF): Green tobacco pyrazines but developed.
Slight rich olive and a bit of chocolate dried blackcurrant.
Med plus body. Med plus tannins- still grippy. Med acid. Really plush slightly fading Black fruit. Extended finish.
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12/31/2015 - potates Likes this wine: 95 Points
After two hours in decanter, this dark red beauty was pristine. The nose was forward with hints of tobacco and cedar and some tar and some dark berries.
The full body was mouth-filling with tones of blackberry, currants, and had a great lingering finish.
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12/28/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
This was clearly the best bottle of 1975 Trotanoy I've ever tasted. Its opulent, lush, plummy, truffle laden qualities were impossible to resist. Sip after sip provided a true Pomerol tasting experience.
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11/7/2015 - kr522 wrote: 97 Points
holding up fantastically well, it's fragrant and mouthfilling with no signs of age catching up.
well stored bottle with BN fill level. black fruits, dark cherry liqueur and coffee dominate....it's seamless with no hard edges. doesn't taste a day over 25 years!
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9/2/2015 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
From magnum. White pepper, sweet spice, red cherry, and some dark earth. An overall sweetness to the nose. Spearmint on the back of the nose. Blackberry and black cherry on the palate, light tar, sweet flowers and white and black pepper on the backpalate. Paired with roasted venison but has not yet developed the full array of secondary elements to pair perfectly. This has a long life in front of it, and in this format is at least ten years away from full maturity. 94-95
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10/10/2014 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Lovely, but served next to Petrus
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7/19/2014 - eric@cwm wrote: 94 Points
Very dark opaque color. Very powerful aromas of plum, rhubarb and graphite. Firm tannins with bracing acidity. Flavors of graphite, soy, spice and plum. This drinks like an exotic cocktail. This has at least a few years left on it. Outstanding. ++
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5/8/2014 - Lord Rayas wrote: 96 Points
old style, rustic. notes of pepper, smoke and tobacco. a bit grippy towards the end but still robust.
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8/10/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 90 Points
Tobacco, floral, cherry and cassis on the nose. Medium intensity still, with very good balance and length. Though it is holding up, this bottle was a drink now proposition.
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8/27/2012 - Aenie wrote: 94 Points
recommend open before serve 45 min. Classic style , mature , wide and elegant , cassis , big forest , fruit is big , life , round
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8/20/2012 - amsuk wrote: 94 Points
Beautiful old Bordeaux. Excellent colour still wonderfully elegant. Will not get any better!
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6/15/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
This is one sexy beast! Plush, rich and lush with a stunning array of scents featuring notes of plums, raspberries, cherries, spices and flint. Velvety, rich. long and deep dark fruit filled finish.
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4/19/2012 - dream wrote: 95 Points
Thick blackish color. Funky nose of tar, underbrush, black plums with a hint of VA. This is a fantastic, wild wine that seems to be at its peak right now. The tannins are fully resolved and the wine is thick and unctious with lovely deep flavors of black plums, violets, all-spice and a hint of volatile compounds. There is a lovely complexity on the finish and the wine is soft and substantial at the same time. A fabulous old-styled Pomerol.
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3/16/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 93 Points
2012 - Mr. K birthday celebration (Chui Huay Lim (醉花林) club - TeoChew Cuisine): Opened for 2hrs. Medium garnet core with light brownish rim. Stunningly expressive on the nose. The bouquet is absolutely intriguing and has a nice depth and complexity in it: healthy sweet dark plum and blackcurrant in the core with old saddle leather, earth, mint, wild meatiness and floral! Medium bodied, a little bit soft and lean at first, but with my previous exp with this wine, I knew it will put on weight and complexity in the glass. Indeed, in about 15-25mins, this fully matured Trotanoy has finally fully opened up and is in a total harmonious now, so seductive and elegance. The freshness in this wine is amazing, a well-stored bottle. Still possesses good structure and a bit of tannin for the grip, and gradually expand on the palate with excellent mid palate depth, with layer of sweet dark fruits, cloves, cinnamon, leather and spicy tone. Long finish with gentle grip, lingering effortlessly with roasted herbs, sweet currant juice. While this is smaller scale and less intense compared to the 1970 but the sexiness and finesse is all the same.
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12/8/2011 - kr522 wrote: 96 Points
opened a bottle that had a top shoulder fill. the color was very translucent with amber around the edges, it had me concerned the wine might be a touch oxidated. not to worry, when i took my first whiff i could tell this wine had this some life. Definitely mature but at the same time giving evidence that this was a powerful wine in its youth...it combined essence of black fruits with more mellow tones of tea and mocha. And it follows through with similar characteristics in taste...it has retained the full glory of its sweetness. For the first hour it was restrained showing it's age: mellow, integrated with a sweet entry and a long finish...and I was probably thinking of a score two points lower but certainly very favorable. And then it took off. It combined a mellow molasses element with hint of tannin emerging to give it some bite and it began to provide a nice peppery sensation in the midpalate. As always with a great Bordeaux it seems the last sip is the tastiest.
For my taste I prefer this to the 1970
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10/16/2011 - rnellans wrote: 95 Points
Dark cherry, spice, plum on the nose. Rich, ripe, soft, velvet, concentrated palate. Long. Delicious wine.
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6/18/2011 - fclarity wrote: 92 Points
From an excellent looking bottle with a very top shoulder fill, this wine had a deep purple center with orange/red rims. The medium intensity nose featured leather, black cherries, and soil.
In the mouth, the wine was ripe and round with an attractive mouth feel. It had very good acidity and length. The flavors suggested clay soil. While the wine was attractive, it did not score higher as I felt the flavors were a touch "stewed".
Bottle variation seems to be rampant with this wine. This bottle appeared to me to be near its peak but it should hold for many years. Enjoy.
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5/19/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
1996 Dujac CDLR & 1975 Trotanoy: Alcohol :: NA
Lively garnet core with brick rim. The aromas was soft, but deeply focus. Toward the end of the dinner, the aromas evolved into highly complex, huge depth with its seductive Asian spices, flora, old saddle leather, earth, autumn tea leaves along with sweet pure dark plum and dried fig. Absolutely captivating. Palate wise, it was similar to the nose that is quite lean, soft with sweet fruits, not really complex and finished with medium length. With time, this lovely, poise, sexy lady started to pull herself together, showing great harmonious, complexity and depth. Sophisticated. So velvet, so fresh with really complex flavors that's is hard to dissect that coated the palate along with a touch of super silky tannin for a better depth and mouth feel and the finish just wont let go with mineral, dried tea leaves after taste. The wine hold herself very well till the end of the dinner with no sign of tired. This is a top class Pomerol. Buy - Yes.
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5/17/2011 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Truffle, sweet black cherry, licorice, plum, exotic spice and dark chocolate aromas jump from the bottle as soon as the cork was popped. Supple, opulent, rich, concentrated waves of velvety textured, ripe, spicy black cherries. mocha and truffle coat your palate. This complete wine is drinking perfectly today.
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12/25/2010 - fclarity wrote: 93 Points
From a good looking bottle with a bottom neck fill, this wine looked good with a deep red center and oranging rims. Not surprisingly, this wine needed 4 hours of air to show its best. The nose was quite closed at first but blossomed to be medium intensity with a focus on black fruit, mocha, tomato, corriander, and soil.
The mouth echoed the nose except the fruit seemed a bit "redder" than in the nose and there was a bit more soil. The wine was attractive, ripe, and round in the mouth with an easy to appreciate plush texture. While the acidity was on the low side but it meshed well with the light, rounded tannin; all of this endowed the wine with a reasonably long finish. This is drinking well now (with air) but it should easily last 10+ years.
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10/26/2010 - DaleW wrote:
Guesses were mostly Left Bank, and there’s enough tannic structure to see why. Ripe dark fruit, mocha. Firm and young. A-
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9/20/2010 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
1975 Trotanoy was the star of the day! Truffle, chocolate, black cherry, licorice, earth and dried flower aromatics were easy to find. Rich, full bodied, round in texture and mouth filling, this elegant wine is still going strong. This is one of the top wines from this correctly maligned year. 95 Pts
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7/25/2010 - JasonG wrote: 87 Points
Not quite gone, but definitely oxidizing into hints of syrup. Nose is musty, aged Bordeaux, hint of moist floor or wet dog. There is still fruit there, with sweet syrupy berries, and more smoke as it opened up. But the overriding sweetness is like when you first bite into a PopTart, and sadly just slightly past its prime. Mouthfeel is substantial and very lush. Aged in perfect conditions for 30+ years. Cork in fine shape.
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3/25/2010 - staren937 wrote: 96 Points
Beautiful aged bordeaux.
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1/16/2010 - fclarity wrote: 90 Points
This wine was from an impeccable source and looked great with a very high sholder fill. The color was deep red in the center with notable orange/tan at the rim. The nose was a bit muted at first showing some raisins and some alcohol. The wine was very smooth and muted in the mouth as well, almost watery. While the nose got more complex, it never lost that raisiny, vin santo quality.
The flavors were much better in the mouth after 2 hours as the focus became mocha and red fruits. The raisiny quality was in the background and served to add complexity. The texture of the mouth was incredible. It was so smooth and refined. The wine had nice light, rounded tannin and decent length. It seems likely that this bottle was a bit impared because, other than the texture, this wine was not 95 points on a Parker scale.
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3/22/2009 - 60ouvrees wrote:
Very powerful and still quite youthful on both nose and palate. An exceptional wine with a long life ahead of it.
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12/16/2007 - 60ouvrees wrote:
We opened two bottles of this and neither was as good as it should have been(though the second was considerably better than the first). Disappointing.
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1/21/2006 - dbg wrote:
Opened 5 hours ahead of drinking. Nose was promising, with fruit and
complexity but a bit sharp. Cork left out of bottle and rechecked
hourly - after 2 hours nose was getting more complex, small amount
poured out and tasted, a bit acidic but nice comple
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8/26/2005 - Jay A wrote: 94 Points
Sadly my father's last bottle. We weren't quite sure if Lafite was control of this property in 1975. Very elegant, soft and refined. Classy. There is just something about a good, old Pomerol. I could drink this forever.
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7/30/2005 - burningstarIV wrote: 94 Points
Drank at Barcelona. Decanted (by staff, fairly poorly) about one hour before drinking. Color was crystal clear garnet, orange around the rim. The nose was incredibly accessible, loads of candied cherries and toffee, along with whiffs of minerals. Mouth was very well balanced but a git tired, with a lovely dusty element that carried from the back of the mouth into the finish. This wine was opened for a thirtieth wedding anniversary; I can only hope that my wedding year provides such an amazing, long-lived, decadent treat. 50+5+14+16+9=94.
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5/3/1989 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 91 Points
With K at home at dinner (cheese risotto). Medium-dark garnet, slight orange at the rim. Bouquet is absolutely fantastic. Typical '75 though--quite deep, and dark chocolate with cocoa. On the palate, full, rich, chewy. Dark chocolate. Very nice, plump, well-stuffed wine. 5-12-16-8: 91/100.
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2/1/1988 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine:
At home with K with cheese. One of the best Bordeaux I have tasted. Very rich and fleshy. Ethereal. A beautiful wine. I wish I had more.
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