1985 Château Trotanoy

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  2/1/2024 - dchain Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Wow- another spectacular bottle that improved over the 2 hours it was opened. Lovely deep clear ruby, looking vibrant and healthy. On the nose was heathy blackberry and dark cherries and then all that Pomerol complexity of tea, leather, tobacco, soil, truffles, chocolate (which got richer and darker as it sat in the glass). No rough edges on the palate but still so fresh and uplifting. Wonderful medium bodied wine (in a good way!) and all the flavours fan out over the palate with a delightful length and finish. Exceptional QPR if you ever see this at auction or if you are lucky enough to have this in your cellar. Still have 3 bottles to go and each one has been a revelation! Drunk with good swim friends on a random Thursday night at home over minestrone soup, pork chops, and a fabulous Thai mango sticky rice dessert. With T&P, S&H.

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  1/5/2024 - salil wrote: 97 Points

  Champagne and claret (John's place, Croton): Well then. This is Burgundy, I swear it, but it also tastes/smells like archetypal Pomerol. Silken red and dark fruit, tobacco, sandalwood and other exotic spicy notes all converging into a seamless, medium weight whole - and there's such a sense of polish and finesse on the palate. The tannins seem fully resolved, this is drinking perfectly right now, and it's a wine I could have just kept sitting and smelling all night if I hadn't a train to catch after. Still, stunning.

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  1/27/2023 - dchain Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Just beautiful. Mid glossy and translucent ruby. Looks like a very good Burgundian wine. Immediately open from the first pour. Plum, delicate black cherry lily, touch of tobacco and forest floor. Also that milk chocolate and leather touch that you get with mature wine at its apogee. Everything can be distinguished yet everything is in harmony. Just glorious on the nose. Equally satisfying on the palate. Mid-weigh but still so much substance and flavour. No noticeable tannins but still fresh and uplifting, citrus zestyness and balance. Won’t get any better than this right now. A tribute to great terroir, great Pomerol and a world without extreme temperatures and climate events. 12.2% alcohol on the label so really drinking a time capsule of a wine. Fabulous and ethereal.

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  3/6/2022 - Sean Tay wrote: flawed

  Bought from auction, unfortunately when it arrived, theres seepage and the without using opening, the cork went slipped right into the wine itself.

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  12/4/2021 - blank blank wrote:

  This bottle was past it. The bouquet was nice, some chocolate and mint and plum and cherry, but it tasted of tomato leaf with a sour finish. Good fill and cork, but there are no good wines only good bottles.

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