Chateau Trotanoy Dinner with Edouard Moueix - A matter of taste
Singapore
Tasted Saturday, November 22, 2014 by Collector1855 with 780 views
Introduction
This wonderful dinner was part of the Wine Advocat's A matter of taste event. Edouard lead well though the night explaining well the terroirs and therefore styles of their different wines, Petrus, Trotanoy, La Fleur Petrus, Hosanna, Belair-Monange, Magdelaine. There was a credible message in the room that the Moueix stable is not resting on laurels but striving for continued quality and innovation. All wines were double decanted.
Trotanoy is from a serious terroir. Not an ealry bloomer sexy wine. Leave it for 10 years and in structured vintages like 2000 or 2010 better 15 before opening. Edouard even mentioned that they have to especially watch out on this terroir not to make it too tannic via extraction. But once it comes out of its shell it is a wine of great aromatic depth (blue fruit, earthy and ever so slightly animalic notes) drinkability and freshness. One term of that night stuck in my mind. Good wine is so elegant and drinkable that you actually get thirstier the more you drink...
2010 Château Trotanoy 97 Points
France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol
Medium-dark purple. Reserved nose of pine tree, eucalyptus, earth, very tight. Could be Californian from the nose. On the palate the softness of the Merlot comes through but very tightly woven. Closed, with some bitter chocolate notes. Lots of depth and blue fruit. This will be very impressive. Completely different than the more open 09. Wait till 2025 and you will be in for something special.
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2009 Château Trotanoy 96 Points
France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol
Medium-dark purple. Much more open than the 2010 and with similar aroma around dark fruit, eucalyptus and earth. There is an aristocratic reservedness here as in all Trotanoys that also includes the subtle bitterness that buffers the fruit on the palate. Finest Merlot tannins here. Very good length. Wonderful.
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1998 Château Trotanoy 95 Points
France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol
Medium-dark garnet. Nose of dark fruit with some additional secondary, animalic notes compared to the young vintages. Remains reserved but in a nice way. This wine is not ostentatious but impresses with great depth and length. Not for the modernist.
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2000 Château Trotanoy 98 Points
France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol
Medium-dark purple. I had this wine a few times and it was always closed and left me disappointed. As all wines were double decanted 2h before the event I saw the first ready showing of this vintage and wow! TN: Expressive nose of dark fruit, intermixed with earth and forest aromas, pine and a meaty touch. Very deep and complex. Excellent palate with, finally, melted tannins making for an outer worldly Merlot experience. Proves two points. 1) Trotanoy really needs 15 and not 10 years to come around 2) Trotoanoy is is one of the best, if not the best Pomerol, up there with Petrus.
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2005 Château Trotanoy 96 Points
France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol
Medium-dark purple. The surprise of the evening was this wine. I would have never expected this to be anywhere near drinkability. Nose of more red than black fruit compared to other vintages intermixed with earthy notes. On the palate very soft and drinkable. Excellent persistency and length.
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