drunk alongside the 1990 La Conseillante, this was much the better of the two - certainly mature and firing on all cylinders - when Trotanoy is good, it is very very good - sensational wine
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Yay! Met yet another of my wine heroes, my first Trotanoy and this 33 year old Pomerol was worth the wait!
All bottles blinded, I managed to figure out this was a Right Bank Bdx, and loved the ultra fine tannins and 1 minute finish too. Leather, plums and tobacco notes were outstanding.
Château Trotanoy was one of the first recognised Premier Cru sites on the Pomerol plateau, with records dating back to the late 1700s.
Until the end of WWII it was owned by the Giraud family. It was then bought by Jean-Pierre Moueix in 1953 who was also the owner of Château La Fleur-Pétrus, and would later of course become the owner of Pétrus.
7th bottle of 11, "Of legal age" theme at Casa SKT's with Chef LMK serving a fine dine quality dinner with amuse bouche and home-made dry aged steaks. This was an amazing choice by WMK, my co-WOTN 🏆 along with the Mouton 1994.
27 Jan 2023 SKTs home, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Dibbs' early birthday: Apparently there is a lot of bottle variation to this wine but this was my second time having it and I was still nonplussed. Very green on the nose for a 1990, the red fruit a little riper and fuller on the palate but not much going on in terms of excitement.
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Very similar to my previous experience about a year earlier to date almost. It got a bit lost between the Gaja and Lignier. And the last time it went anonymous for me with the 90 Las Cases and 90 Bart Beze. I am not sure the 90 Trotanoy delivers its value to the premium it is at now.
A bit of greenness on the nose, but the mouth is full of sexy Merlot characteristics which took me right bank St. Emillion. Whereas it should be mouth coating and sexy with tremendous length, it really has a bit of under-ripeness that I think is holding it back, unfortunately. The finish is not as strong as it should be given by the vintage or the producer. But overall a fun wine to drink.
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Blind. Ripe vintage with plenty of fruit and acidity. Must be a good year. Some pyrazine, but only under the fruit, super youthful. Right bank 1982/1990? 93
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48x 1990 (37x Bdx, 6x Napa, 5x others): A fabulous quartet of 1990 Pomerols side by side showed incredibly strong. With a lot of typicality, these wines are so sensual and hedonistic and at the same time very elegant. Winner was a complex and complete Petrus (96 pts), a touch ahead of the intense and still young Lafleur (95 pts) and nicely matured, complex Evangile (95 pts). The Trotanoy (93 pts) was a tad weaker as it showed less substance compared to the others. I’m sure, following these wines over an evening would have been great and the scores would be higher. All 4 wines were a bit shy on the nose and only started singing with additional time in the glass and swirling.
TN: Not very expressive nose. On the palate this is fresh and round, very floral and light, chocolate and red berries, some minerality but it‘s all about weightlessness and finesse. Unfrotunately, the substance does not reach the same heights as the Lafleur or Petrus in the same flight.
Decanting: Quick double decant three+ hours prior to the tasting to remove sediment. This would have needed more time in the decanter. 2-3 hours at least.
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This has developed quite nicely over the years. Fully-mature, soft, silky, fresh and plummy, the finish, with its truffle, cherry, plum, herb, cocoa, and spice nuances hits the spot.
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This Trotanoy was big rich and majestic with some honeyed beehive notes. However, like it’s flight mate, L’Evangile 1990, it was difficult to unlock all of its secrets over a dinner with 12 ‘90 clarets shared between 12 people. It would be nice to spend an evening with both. The Trot was the more gregarious of the two, but the sheer class was palpable. Drinking well now it still has a long life ahead.
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Po's 1990 Bordeaux Dinner (La Trompette, Chiswick): Nose shows red fruit, spice, earth, palate is sensuous and caressing with red fruit, spice, earth, vibrant acidity, long, harmonious finish. Outstanding, drinking beautifully.
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Po's 1990 Bordeaux dinner (La Trompette): Exotic and powerful wine, with Turkish Delight and aniseed on the nose (I noted fennel when I had this last year), and spice, candied red/black fruit and burnt ends on the palate. A solid core and a subtle hint of caramel, but sufficiently elegant with it. Very ample, long finish. My #2 and the group's #3.
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Po’s 1990 Bordeaux (La Trompette, London): Very creamy, milk chocolate on the nose. More composed and focused on the palate. A touch savoury on the finish with some licorice. A nice line between padding and focus. Lovely balance. A touch of smoke. ****
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Dibbs's birthday: Looking at previous CT notes, this might have been an off bottle as it was rather disappointing and a completely different showing from what others suggested this wine should be. Rather muted in comparison to the Las Cases, had a hard edgy character without showing much. The wine eventually put on weight and became more dark fruited but there just wasn't much going on. Never threatened to eclipse the Las Cases.
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Gang of 4 in Covid19 times; Special wines (@ RW): In the bouquet chocolate, coffee and cocoa. On the palate chocolate, dark berries, rustic and barnyard impressions, truffle, animals, raisins, laurel, graphite, earth, oak and minerals. Good acidity and length. 93 – 94
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Fully mature and silky smooth. Rich with chocolate, tobacco, ripe fruit, very charming indeed, no hard edges just the harmony of 1990 - and mature Bordeaux. It is great now, no reason to hold, just enjoy. #CP
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An exciting wine (great evolution), but past its prime. Not in great measure, but for sure time to drink up by the end of 2020. Medium garnet in the glass. Tertiary aromas dominant - dried fig, dried cranberry, tobacco, burnt rosemary, wet cedar. Palate is extremely soft with mellow acid that sticks out a bit (reason being there’s not enough fruit to back it up). Medium, soft finish.
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Darker than #1. Feels fruitier and less evolved too. Clay terroir still giving power to the wine. Incense and eucalyptus on the nose and fennel and (really prominent) dark liquorice on the nose and the palate. Intense, grippy but medium bodied. Fills out with air. No hurry with this. Joint group WOTN but for me perhaps the least interesting along with GPL.
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45th Birthday Celebration (Chez Nanda): Big nose is full of plum fruit, funk/poop and cedar. Plenty of rich, round fruit that is layered with good complexity. Excellent right banker from the 1990 vintage.
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"You only turn 45 once" (Chicago, IL): Slightly poopy on the nose, but besides that, there are some really lovely plum notes. You can tell from the fruit profiles that this was a pretty ripe vintage, but this wine handles it well, despite the relatively lower acidity. The palate is almost porty with the amount of ripe black fruit, but there's restraint overall here. For my palate, ready to drink now, as I think there isn't that much more structure to resolve.
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Massively disappointing after one previously excellent bottle from the same lot. This had very little nose and its only redeeming feature was the ripe cherry, red spice, cedary, pencil palate. I wondered if this could have been so subtly corked as to simply strip the nose without showing TCA taint, but no one else thought so. An unfortunate case of dramatic bottle variation.
So, 3 bottles in total consumed from the same (reliable) source and all in great shape - one very good and two pretty poor. Caveat emptor.
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1989 Bordeaux Dinner (Joseph's Place, Wong Chung Hang, Hong Kong): Very mild bricking on the meniscus...translucent. ruby colour. Nose is flowery perfumed red roses. Palate is wow... fresh acidity, quite high, and powerful tannic structure. Immediately heady and resonant with super length. A step up from the 1989....but needs 5 more years to fully unfurl. 92+
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Nice mature Bordeaux. This has good secondary development and the merlot character shines through with dark plum and blueberry flavors. The depth and length were not quite as good as in other older vintages of Trotanoy I've tasted.
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Drinking incredibly well tonight. Opened and decanted and drank over the course of prob 4 or 5 hours. This is still on the younger side, but it's showing that depth of character that seems to come with some more years in a wine. Lots of dark red current. Some spice. Everything well integrated. Many years to go, but very lovely now too with the decant.
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Fun wine, the 90 - raspberry, clay focused nose with lots of mature Merlot spices (camphor, etc), mineral, ganache, and a little cedar. Nice richness, both on the nose and palate. Funny to recognize only the day after that I thought this bore some kinship with the 1971. I'd like to follow a bottle of this over the course of an evening; this had about an hour and a half of air prior to tasting. Fully mature.
It later came to my attention that the second bottle of this served at dinner was really unimpressive (same source, excellent condition). It's worth noting that I had a third bottle from the same lot 9 months later and found it so boring that I marked it 87 (which may have been generous). So caveat emptor with 90 Trot - huge amount of bottle variation here.
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Nose: Jubilant raspberry, red cherry fruit, cocoa powder, spice and sandalwood notes. Sweet fragrance to this one, and much lighter in profile than the 98 along side. Palate: More middle weighted, but complete. Silky with modest levels of glycerin and bright blackberry, raspberry, spice and coffee notes. Finish: Moderate with dryer tannin than the 98.
Really nice and likely drinking close to peak. Seems to lack the stuffing of other vintages, but in a great place right now.
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Now were talking !!!! Marvelous bordeaux with smooth cassis , silky tannins and great backbone. Needed a lot of air. After 4 h of decanting it sang like a diva. Fresh and a bunch of herbal fireworks leave you with a smile. Thats bordeaux in its most hedonistic way. This has years left. Oh happy day !!!!!!
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Spectacular. Huge ripe nose with black fruits. Agree with those who claim more left than right bank. Thick, sweet, opulent and utterly gorgeous in the mouth with camphor, blackberry, blackcurrant, juniper, leather and dissolving tannins. Would guess this could still age for 20 years. Incredibly long finish.
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1990 Bordeaux Blind: Highlights: Intricate and complex nose of ashy tobacco, jerky meats, and dark gritty black fruit. Palate is tight and tannic. Missing the opulence of the vintage. This bottle reads a little more like a '70 in terms of tertiary character. Interesting.
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Much better than the last bottle from approximately one year ago. Really showed off some serious aromatic complexity, with cassis, blackberry, sweet tobacco, sous bois, truffle, and chocolate. Precise and focused on the palate, with lots of layers that kept emerging with time. Impressive length and acidity on the finish. Tannins still need further integration, but this is clearly a good time to consume this wine. There is enough fruit and structure for this wine to shine for many years.
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Maybe it's the two bottles I've had so far of this wine but I am not seeing how this wine can improve from where it is. A lot of the 1990s are beginning to slightly wane for me especially in Pomerol. Nonetheless, Trotanoy is one of my favorite wines having had several vintages. Nice nose of spice cake, plums, blackberries and truffles. On the palate the wine showed more structure and power immediately after decanting but acidity and plum creeped up after 3 hours and the wine lost steam. Decent finish, some complexity which gives me hope for this wine to improve or even better hope that provenance was not ideal for the two bottles I've had of this vintage.
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Drank this over two evenings. On the first night, it wasn't showing much. Mostly plum, black cherry, pepper, truffle, and chocolate on the nose. Not very lively on the palate. Lots of tannins left to resolve. Bright acidity. On night #2, everything changed. Much more life in the nose and on the palate. It's clear that this wine still has some growing to do. Once the tannins soften further, and the nose continues to evolve, this wine should be really nice. To compare with other Trotanoys, this is more rustic but with less power and depth than vintages such as 1995 and 1998. It's enjoyable nonetheless, but give this wine two more years to let things come together.
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I will 2nd Jeff Leve's note: lots of truffle, and hard piercing cherry/ raspberry along with strong ash component; palate is rich with a certain roundness for Trotanoy which seems typically hard, lacking the voluptuous quality of '90 (may be for Trotanoy), very Bordeaux with the tobacco, great focus and drive, some medicinal notes, a linear quality which makes me think this will be better with more aging, lots of minerality on the finish, limestone, dusty, tart; delicious, love it.
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dark red color light rim, boysenberryon nose palate c omplex, wood, earth, chewy long finish alive can last a long time. mylast one. I am enjoying it now.
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Tasted in magnum - decanted 1.5 hours before service. Unbelievable. Aged beautifully - still has ageing potential in magnum. Earthy, fungal on opening. Developed to warm leather, oak and warm plums. On the pallet rich with classic merlot /cabernet notes with mineral right bank tones. Black fruit, plums, the predominent fruits. Pairee with braised short ribs. Worked wonderfully.
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Still young, this keep getting better and better. The truffle, dark chocolate covered black raspberries and black cherry notes in the perfume and made even better with hints of floral notes. Full bodied, silky and concentrated, this is still young, fresh and vibrant and will even get better with age.
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Quite evolved in terms of colour, rather brownish rim, very evolved on the nose as well, slightly spirity, stewed fruit, rather low in acidity, drying. Very good length. Lacking depth and complexity. Probably not a great bottle, but based on this one, past its best. 88-90
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1990 ANYTHING Dinner (Our house): Drank over 3 hours. Dirty nose of earth, dark fruit and a hint of violet. Shallow red fruit on the palate. Disjointed. On the other end of the spectrum from the 90 Evangile we had next to it.
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Cork broken at the opening: not a good sign. Pretty slow to open up after 23 years. Decanted 1h before showing its first characters. After decanting, the feeling is that this Trotanoy was at its best at least a couple of years ago (falls pretty short on the palate), although it still expresses its perfect balance of tannins and acidity. Most part if its power is gone with the years. True merlot backbone, round and full, which tells you a long story from Bordeaux wherever you are. Drunk all alone in a summer windy nad sunny afternoon in Costa Corallina with Maestrale shattering the blue sea. 90 for the label
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It's all about the bottle, once a wine hits 10-15 years of age. At close to 25, provenance is even more important. I've tasted better, younger, fresher examples, this bottle was much better on the nose, with its truffle, chocolate, black cherry profile. It fell short on the palate, as it lacked the richness and depth this wine normally showed. This note is for this bottle, other bottles with good storage have been dramatically better.
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Both bottles were extraordinary! While drinking at their best, still quite youthful. One of the greatest Pomerol of memory in terms of breed, elegance yet power, sheer complexity of flavors, balance and remanence. The 'total package'!
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Trotanoy Vertical (Au Jardin @ Botanic Garden): Alcohol :: 12.5% This is a very good Trotanoy but some how I don't like the style. It was structure with opulent mouthfeel but I thought It lacks a bit of lift. Super concentrated on the palate with mouth coating dry extract. Opulent, silky texture and sweet tannin. The tannin is surprisingly dominated the palate for now and the acid is somewhat not quite there to balance. Long lingering finish though.
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Deep dark purple color, nose that give off dark fruits, cedar/wood. the wine is smooth, very nice to drink, well integrated and giveing giving a lot of pleasure. will bei fun to drink over next 10 years
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Decanted about 90 minutes, deep red color. Cocoa on the nose with a bit of fruit and earth, well integrated but still leaning to the younger side. Well balanced, med long. Good bottle
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Sporting a mature color, making it look much older than it should, a complex bouquet stuffed with chocolate, truffle, black cherry, plums, earth, earth, forest floor and spice aromas lead to a sensuous, lush, polished, sexy array of plum, chocolate and truffle. What a pleasure. This is probably drinking at peak. I'm sorry I finished most of the case before it started to deliver the goods. However, due to its advanced color, I would not hesitate to pop a cork as this is probably not going to make it to old age.
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A simply delicious wine. This time around I opened the bottle about 3 hours prior to drinking and decanted about 1.5 hours prior. When poured there was beautiful fruit on the nose and palette. Cherry is still a strong flavour, but mixed in with a backdrop of more base notes like cassis give the wine a complexity that makes it very interesting, without being challenging. Really enjoyable and with great depth and quality, the one downside of the wine (if it can be called that), is that I can't see the wine developing any further. My guess is that at 20 + years old it is towards the end of best part of the drinking window, simply because there isn't an obvious direction in which it would go. The flavours are clean, the colour still soft red (not yet bricking), the tannins totally integrated, so unless there is sometnhing hidden, drink now and for the next 2-3 years. I'll keep one in the back of the cellar to try in a decade or so, to see if my suspicions are correct - if I can resist it.
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Chocolate, flowers, plums, spice, truffle and blackberry aromas open to a lush, polished wine with satin textures and a long, soft, cocoa and black cherry finish. This is close to mature. While it could improve over the next decade or even longer, it's drinking at the perfect place today.
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Trotanoy 1990 vs 1998 and la Magdelaine 2000. The first glass unfortunately came form a corked bottle but the wait for our second glass was well worth it. For a 21 year old it was deeply satisfying, fresh and angelic. How do you rate a wine like this? It is currently ‘à point’ and should be drunk with vigor!
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Elegance & Finesse, the 2 best words to describe this delicous wine. Still got a line of tanin to hold it all together, but the wine is close to its optimum, and what an optimum. The fruit is surprisingly light. More along the line of recurrant and cherry ratrher than the expected blackberry and blackcurrant. Truely enjoyable and one to be shared with friends with good food.... second bottle at BBQ, 3rd will need to be decanted at least 2 if not 3 hours
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I had this bottle at a restaurant as part of a larger meal (325 USD off the menu). Although quite good, I was not impressed as I thought I would be. I was expecting more in the 90+ range. The wine was a little thin -- not quite as full flavored as I expected. Tannins well in check. Fruit not all that pronounced. We did not decant it, but let it breathe for a good hour or so (maybe 90 minutes) before we started.
Good bottle, although I am not certain it was that good a QPR.
One caveat -- We drank this after we drank a pretty tasty Red Burgundy. I am not certain how this may affected my palate. I suspect not positively.
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Knew storage of this one was suspect so not surprised. Fill level and bottle looked good but cork was toast. Gave wine an hours decant and it tasted like medicine. Gave more time to see what happened and there was just nothing there but funk. Oh well.
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5th Annual Italian Offline Pre-Game (Simple Bistro, Toronto, Canada): Medium-dark ruby colour. Aromas of cedar box, cigar box, leather, spice, dried red fruit, licorice/anise. Medium-bodied, a little restrained initially, but opened to show lovely texture and balance. Very elegant with more cedar, tobacco, dried fruit notes. Lingering finish, ~40s. Very nice.
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very nice. Dark and deep color showing some brick at the edges. lots of spice on the nose with some cedar and good mineral tones. Lots of casis and blackberry undertones. nice balance and good finnish. A real nice nice bordeaux/
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Nose of cassis and toasted oak. Classic claret style(ie not modern). Tight on the palate but elegant-fruit is restrained but structured. Lots of potential. Again, another 1990 that seems young.
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Dark red colour bricking a little at the rim. The nose is superb, showing complex aromas of cassis, cedar, spices, tobacco, floral notes and some hints of sandalwood. Very rich and forward on the palate with more flavours of cassis, red fuits, cedar, tobacco and cocoa with lots of power and elegance. The tannins are surprisingly firm, giving the impression that this wine has a long time ahead of it still. Finishes with good length. Wonderful to drink, although I suspect this may get even better with more age.
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We were disappointed in the wine. Clearly big, structured, but with a medium finis that ends in a slightly bitter aftertaste. Not sure if this will change with age. much beeter with the food than without, but would not buy again based on this experienc
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This bottles reconfirmed that pomerol's are my favs. Beautiful nose of flowers, honey and dates. On the palate it is fleshy, round with sweet dark fruit and a touch of meat. Wonderful.
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Craig guesses Pomerol quickly. I had loved this wine at a '90 horizontal in 2005, but this doesn't show so well. Doesn't seem cooked or corked, but doesn't have the length or lushness I remember. Basic cassis fruit, a kind of ferric minerality. Marks notes iodine- I don't get that,but several others agree. Certainly a drinkable mature Bordeaux, but without being anything to search for (and most expensive wine of tasting). B
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Tasted at California Wine Experience, NY "1990 Global Tasting" Medium dense garnet color, closed nose, cooked taste. Very short. nothing exciting. Will it live? I'm not sure I care… *** max
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4/23/2024 - hargy Likes this wine: 94 Points
drunk alongside the 1990 La Conseillante, this was much the better of the two - certainly mature and firing on all cylinders - when Trotanoy is good, it is very very good - sensational wine
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1/27/2023 - Juliansi Likes this wine: 94 Points
Yay! Met yet another of my wine heroes, my first Trotanoy and this 33 year old Pomerol was worth the wait!
All bottles blinded, I managed to figure out this was a Right Bank Bdx, and loved the ultra fine tannins and 1 minute finish too. Leather, plums and tobacco notes were outstanding.
Château Trotanoy was one of the first recognised Premier Cru sites on the Pomerol plateau, with records dating back to the late 1700s.
Until the end of WWII it was owned by the Giraud family. It was then bought by Jean-Pierre Moueix in 1953 who was also the owner of Château La Fleur-Pétrus, and would later of course become the owner of Pétrus.
7th bottle of 11, "Of legal age" theme at Casa SKT's with Chef LMK serving a fine dine quality dinner with amuse bouche and home-made dry aged steaks. This was an amazing choice by WMK, my co-WOTN 🏆 along with the Mouton 1994.
27 Jan 2023
SKTs home, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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10/13/2022 - Alex G. wrote:
Several at the table went gaga for this, to me it was a bit lost in the shuffle. A solid wine but not a standout to my taste.
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7/15/2022 - hargy Likes this wine: 91 Points
certainly mature and quite delicious, I expected something more from this and it lacks a little in depth and length - drink soonish
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6/3/2022 - melvinyeowq wrote: 88 Points
Dibbs' early birthday: Apparently there is a lot of bottle variation to this wine but this was my second time having it and I was still nonplussed. Very green on the nose for a 1990, the red fruit a little riper and fuller on the palate but not much going on in terms of excitement.
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6/3/2022 - Dibbs wrote: 90 Points
Very similar to my previous experience about a year earlier to date almost. It got a bit lost between the Gaja and Lignier. And the last time it went anonymous for me with the 90 Las Cases and 90 Bart Beze. I am not sure the 90 Trotanoy delivers its value to the premium it is at now.
A bit of greenness on the nose, but the mouth is full of sexy Merlot characteristics which took me right bank St. Emillion. Whereas it should be mouth coating and sexy with tremendous length, it really has a bit of under-ripeness that I think is holding it back, unfortunately. The finish is not as strong as it should be given by the vintage or the producer. But overall a fun wine to drink.
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4/28/2022 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Blind. Ripe vintage with plenty of fruit and acidity. Must be a good year. Some pyrazine, but only under the fruit, super youthful. Right bank 1982/1990? 93
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4/24/2022 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points
48x 1990 (37x Bdx, 6x Napa, 5x others): A fabulous quartet of 1990 Pomerols side by side showed incredibly strong. With a lot of typicality, these wines are so sensual and hedonistic and at the same time very elegant. Winner was a complex and complete Petrus (96 pts), a touch ahead of the intense and still young Lafleur (95 pts) and nicely matured, complex Evangile (95 pts). The Trotanoy (93 pts) was a tad weaker as it showed less substance compared to the others. I’m sure, following these wines over an evening would have been great and the scores would be higher. All 4 wines were a bit shy on the nose and only started singing with additional time in the glass and swirling.
TN: Not very expressive nose. On the palate this is fresh and round, very floral and light, chocolate and red berries, some minerality but it‘s all about weightlessness and finesse. Unfrotunately, the substance does not reach the same heights as the Lafleur or Petrus in the same flight.
Decanting: Quick double decant three+ hours prior to the tasting to remove sediment. This would have needed more time in the decanter. 2-3 hours at least.
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4/5/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
This has developed quite nicely over the years. Fully-mature, soft, silky, fresh and plummy, the finish, with its truffle, cherry, plum, herb, cocoa, and spice nuances hits the spot.
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10/14/2021 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 95 Points
This Trotanoy was big rich and majestic with some honeyed beehive notes. However, like it’s flight mate, L’Evangile 1990, it was difficult to unlock all of its secrets over a dinner with 12 ‘90 clarets shared between 12 people. It would be nice to spend an evening with both. The Trot was the more gregarious of the two, but the sheer class was palpable. Drinking well now it still has a long life ahead.
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10/14/2021 - Paul D wrote: 95 Points
Po's 1990 Bordeaux Dinner (La Trompette, Chiswick): Nose shows red fruit, spice, earth, palate is sensuous and caressing with red fruit, spice, earth, vibrant acidity, long, harmonious finish. Outstanding, drinking beautifully.
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10/14/2021 - NickA Likes this wine: 94 Points
Po's 1990 Bordeaux dinner (La Trompette): Exotic and powerful wine, with Turkish Delight and aniseed on the nose (I noted fennel when I had this last year), and spice, candied red/black fruit and burnt ends on the palate. A solid core and a subtle hint of caramel, but sufficiently elegant with it. Very ample, long finish. My #2 and the group's #3.
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10/14/2021 - SimonG wrote: 93 Points
Po’s 1990 Bordeaux (La Trompette, London): Very creamy, milk chocolate on the nose. More composed and focused on the palate. A touch savoury on the finish with some licorice. A nice line between padding and focus. Lovely balance. A touch of smoke. ****
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9/4/2021 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Epic Bordeaux for an Epic Birthday!; 9/1/2021-9/12/2021 (Paris & Bordeaux): Also from a magnum. The ‘90 was the baby wine at the table and this is a wine that is built for a truly long life ahead. Powerful and lush and fresh and truly tasty.
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6/21/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:
Dibbs's birthday: Looking at previous CT notes, this might have been an off bottle as it was rather disappointing and a completely different showing from what others suggested this wine should be. Rather muted in comparison to the Las Cases, had a hard edgy character without showing much. The wine eventually put on weight and became more dark fruited but there just wasn't much going on. Never threatened to eclipse the Las Cases.
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12/23/2020 - Zweder wrote: 94 Points
Gang of 4 in Covid19 times; Special wines (@ RW): In the bouquet chocolate, coffee and cocoa. On the palate chocolate, dark berries, rustic and barnyard impressions, truffle, animals, raisins, laurel, graphite, earth, oak and minerals. Good acidity and length. 93 – 94
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10/29/2020 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 Points
A fantastic showing of the 90 Trotanoy with perfume, truffle, red fruit, and herbs. Round and silky palate with excellent length and persistence.
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9/27/2020 - beatles wrote: 93 Points
Fully mature and silky smooth. Rich with chocolate, tobacco, ripe fruit, very charming indeed, no hard edges just the harmony of 1990 - and mature Bordeaux. It is great now, no reason to hold, just enjoy.
#CP
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9/1/2020 - grapenomad wrote: 89 Points
An exciting wine (great evolution), but past its prime. Not in great measure, but for sure time to drink up by the end of 2020. Medium garnet in the glass. Tertiary aromas dominant - dried fig, dried cranberry, tobacco, burnt rosemary, wet cedar. Palate is extremely soft with mellow acid that sticks out a bit (reason being there’s not enough fruit to back it up). Medium, soft finish.
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8/5/2020 - NickA Likes this wine: 93 Points
The Development of Older Bordeaux (Zoom!): 90% Merlot, 10% CF. 13.5% alcohol.
Darker than #1. Feels fruitier and less evolved too. Clay terroir still giving power to the wine. Incense and eucalyptus on the nose and fennel and (really prominent) dark liquorice on the nose and the palate. Intense, grippy but medium bodied. Fills out with air. No hurry with this. Joint group WOTN but for me perhaps the least interesting along with GPL.
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6/27/2020 - afvf Does not like this wine: 91 Points
This wine should and could be much bigger. Rather bland in the mouth, while the nose gave a little promise that evaporated quickly.
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11/9/2019 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points
45th Birthday Celebration (Chez Nanda): Big nose is full of plum fruit, funk/poop and cedar. Plenty of rich, round fruit that is layered with good complexity. Excellent right banker from the 1990 vintage.
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11/9/2019 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
"You only turn 45 once" (Chicago, IL): Slightly poopy on the nose, but besides that, there are some really lovely plum notes. You can tell from the fruit profiles that this was a pretty ripe vintage, but this wine handles it well, despite the relatively lower acidity. The palate is almost porty with the amount of ripe black fruit, but there's restraint overall here. For my palate, ready to drink now, as I think there isn't that much more structure to resolve.
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8/7/2019 - englishman's claret wrote: 87 Points
Massively disappointing after one previously excellent bottle from the same lot. This had very little nose and its only redeeming feature was the ripe cherry, red spice, cedary, pencil palate. I wondered if this could have been so subtly corked as to simply strip the nose without showing TCA taint, but no one else thought so. An unfortunate case of dramatic bottle variation.
So, 3 bottles in total consumed from the same (reliable) source and all in great shape - one very good and two pretty poor. Caveat emptor.
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5/25/2019 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
S&J. Charming old wine.
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5/25/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
In 3L format. Soft and expressive. Probably over the peak in 750 format. Liked it.
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5/24/2019 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 92 Points
1989 Bordeaux Dinner (Joseph's Place, Wong Chung Hang, Hong Kong): Very mild bricking on the meniscus...translucent. ruby colour. Nose is flowery perfumed red roses. Palate is wow... fresh acidity, quite high, and powerful tannic structure. Immediately heady and resonant with super length. A step up from the 1989....but needs 5 more years to fully unfurl. 92+
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3/16/2019 - nywine68 wrote: 92 Points
Nice mature Bordeaux. This has good secondary development and the merlot character shines through with dark plum and blueberry flavors. The depth and length were not quite as good as in other older vintages of Trotanoy I've tasted.
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12/12/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Drinking incredibly well tonight. Opened and decanted and drank over the course of prob 4 or 5 hours. This is still on the younger side, but it's showing that depth of character that seems to come with some more years in a wine. Lots of dark red current. Some spice. Everything well integrated. Many years to go, but very lovely now too with the decant.
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11/3/2018 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points
Fun wine, the 90 - raspberry, clay focused nose with lots of mature Merlot spices (camphor, etc), mineral, ganache, and a little cedar. Nice richness, both on the nose and palate. Funny to recognize only the day after that I thought this bore some kinship with the 1971. I'd like to follow a bottle of this over the course of an evening; this had about an hour and a half of air prior to tasting. Fully mature.
It later came to my attention that the second bottle of this served at dinner was really unimpressive (same source, excellent condition). It's worth noting that I had a third bottle from the same lot 9 months later and found it so boring that I marked it 87 (which may have been generous). So caveat emptor with 90 Trot - huge amount of bottle variation here.
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11/3/2018 - RockinCabs wrote: 92 Points
Nose: Jubilant raspberry, red cherry fruit, cocoa powder, spice and sandalwood notes. Sweet fragrance to this one, and much lighter in profile than the 98 along side. Palate: More middle weighted, but complete. Silky with modest levels of glycerin and bright blackberry, raspberry, spice and coffee notes. Finish: Moderate with dryer tannin than the 98.
Really nice and likely drinking close to peak. Seems to lack the stuffing of other vintages, but in a great place right now.
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2/10/2018 - Frank Schneider wrote: 97 Points
Now were talking !!!! Marvelous bordeaux with smooth cassis , silky tannins and great backbone. Needed a lot of air. After 4 h of decanting it sang like a diva. Fresh and a bunch of herbal fireworks leave you with a smile. Thats bordeaux in its most hedonistic way. This has years left. Oh happy day !!!!!!
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9/3/2017 - Sozzled-Me wrote: 96 Points
Spectacular. Huge ripe nose with black fruits. Agree with those who claim more left than right bank. Thick, sweet, opulent and utterly gorgeous in the mouth with camphor, blackberry, blackcurrant, juniper, leather and dissolving tannins. Would guess this could still age for 20 years. Incredibly long finish.
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8/23/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:
'05 & older Pomerol + '10 & older Bordeaux Blanc session.
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3/28/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 91 Points
1990 Bordeaux Blind: Highlights: Intricate and complex nose of ashy tobacco, jerky meats, and dark gritty black fruit. Palate is tight and tannic. Missing the opulence of the vintage. This bottle reads a little more like a '70 in terms of tertiary character. Interesting.
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3/17/2017 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 94 Points
Much better than the last bottle from approximately one year ago. Really showed off some serious aromatic complexity, with cassis, blackberry, sweet tobacco, sous bois, truffle, and chocolate. Precise and focused on the palate, with lots of layers that kept emerging with time. Impressive length and acidity on the finish. Tannins still need further integration, but this is clearly a good time to consume this wine. There is enough fruit and structure for this wine to shine for many years.
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10/12/2016 - the player Likes this wine: 92 Points
Maybe it's the two bottles I've had so far of this wine but I am not seeing how this wine can improve from where it is. A lot of the 1990s are beginning to slightly wane for me especially in Pomerol. Nonetheless, Trotanoy is one of my favorite wines having had several vintages. Nice nose of spice cake, plums, blackberries and truffles. On the palate the wine showed more structure and power immediately after decanting but acidity and plum creeped up after 3 hours and the wine lost steam. Decent finish, some complexity which gives me hope for this wine to improve or even better hope that provenance was not ideal for the two bottles I've had of this vintage.
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3/3/2016 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 92 Points
Drank this over two evenings. On the first night, it wasn't showing much. Mostly plum, black cherry, pepper, truffle, and chocolate on the nose. Not very lively on the palate. Lots of tannins left to resolve. Bright acidity. On night #2, everything changed. Much more life in the nose and on the palate. It's clear that this wine still has some growing to do. Once the tannins soften further, and the nose continues to evolve, this wine should be really nice. To compare with other Trotanoys, this is more rustic but with less power and depth than vintages such as 1995 and 1998. It's enjoyable nonetheless, but give this wine two more years to let things come together.
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10/17/2015 - Rezy13 Likes this wine: 94 Points
I will 2nd Jeff Leve's note: lots of truffle, and hard piercing cherry/ raspberry along with strong ash component; palate is rich with a certain roundness for Trotanoy which seems typically hard, lacking the voluptuous quality of '90 (may be for Trotanoy), very Bordeaux with the tobacco, great focus and drive, some medicinal notes, a linear quality which makes me think this will be better with more aging, lots of minerality on the finish, limestone, dusty, tart; delicious, love it.
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4/12/2015 - vivt Likes this wine: 94 Points
dark red color light rim, boysenberryon nose palate c omplex, wood, earth, chewy long finish alive can last a long time. mylast one. I am enjoying it now.
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3/5/2015 - Wine-matt87 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Tasted in magnum - decanted 1.5 hours before service.
Unbelievable.
Aged beautifully - still has ageing potential in magnum.
Earthy, fungal on opening. Developed to warm leather, oak and warm plums.
On the pallet rich with classic merlot /cabernet notes with mineral right bank tones.
Black fruit, plums, the predominent fruits.
Pairee with braised short ribs. Worked wonderfully.
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2/18/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
Still young, this keep getting better and better. The truffle, dark chocolate covered black raspberries and black cherry notes in the perfume and made even better with hints of floral notes. Full bodied, silky and concentrated, this is still young, fresh and vibrant and will even get better with age.
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11/4/2014 - rossi.wine wrote: 89 Points
Quite evolved in terms of colour, rather brownish rim, very evolved on the nose as well, slightly spirity, stewed fruit, rather low in acidity, drying. Very good length. Lacking depth and complexity. Probably not a great bottle, but based on this one, past its best. 88-90
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10/25/2014 - RussK wrote: 91 Points
Russk K&A's Group at Vienna Cafe. Firm and inaccessible. 91-
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4/13/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 87 Points
1990 ANYTHING Dinner (Our house): Drank over 3 hours. Dirty nose of earth, dark fruit and a hint of violet. Shallow red fruit on the palate. Disjointed. On the other end of the spectrum from the 90 Evangile we had next to it.
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8/21/2013 - olracx62 wrote: 90 Points
Cork broken at the opening: not a good sign. Pretty slow to open up after 23 years. Decanted 1h before showing its first characters. After decanting, the feeling is that this Trotanoy was at its best at least a couple of years ago (falls pretty short on the palate), although it still expresses its perfect balance of tannins and acidity. Most part if its power is gone with the years. True merlot backbone, round and full, which tells you a long story from Bordeaux wherever you are. Drunk all alone in a summer windy nad sunny afternoon in Costa Corallina with Maestrale shattering the blue sea. 90 for the label
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8/14/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 Points
It's all about the bottle, once a wine hits 10-15 years of age. At close to 25, provenance is even more important. I've tasted better, younger, fresher examples, this bottle was much better on the nose, with its truffle, chocolate, black cherry profile. It fell short on the palate, as it lacked the richness and depth this wine normally showed. This note is for this bottle, other bottles with good storage have been dramatically better.
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7/21/2013 - reichken wrote: 94 Points
Deep color and taste, cedar and tobacco, developing nicely
Need to find some more of these
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1/19/2013 - souleillou wrote:
Both bottles were extraordinary! While drinking at their best, still quite youthful. One of the greatest Pomerol of memory in terms of breed, elegance yet power, sheer complexity of flavors, balance and remanence. The 'total package'!
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11/12/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 90 Points
Trotanoy Vertical (Au Jardin @ Botanic Garden): Alcohol :: 12.5%
This is a very good Trotanoy but some how I don't like the style. It was structure with opulent mouthfeel but I thought It lacks a bit of lift. Super concentrated on the palate with mouth coating dry extract. Opulent, silky texture and sweet tannin. The tannin is surprisingly dominated the palate for now and the acid is somewhat not quite there to balance. Long lingering finish though.
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10/20/2012 - reichken wrote: 94 Points
Deep dark purple color, nose that give off dark fruits, cedar/wood. the wine is smooth, very nice to drink, well integrated and giveing giving a lot of pleasure. will bei fun to drink over next 10 years
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9/1/2012 - reichken wrote: 93 Points
Decanted about 90 minutes, deep red color. Cocoa on the nose with a bit of fruit and earth, well integrated but still leaning to the younger side. Well balanced, med long. Good bottle
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7/9/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points
Sporting a mature color, making it look much older than it should, a complex bouquet stuffed with chocolate, truffle, black cherry, plums, earth, earth, forest floor and spice aromas lead to a sensuous, lush, polished, sexy array of plum, chocolate and truffle. What a pleasure. This is probably drinking at peak. I'm sorry I finished most of the case before it started to deliver the goods. However, due to its advanced color, I would not hesitate to pop a cork as this is probably not going to make it to old age.
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9/13/2011 - pekingunther wrote: 93 Points
A simply delicious wine. This time around I opened the bottle about 3 hours prior to drinking and decanted about 1.5 hours prior. When poured there was beautiful fruit on the nose and palette. Cherry is still a strong flavour, but mixed in with a backdrop of more base notes like cassis give the wine a complexity that makes it very interesting, without being challenging. Really enjoyable and with great depth and quality, the one downside of the wine (if it can be called that), is that I can't see the wine developing any further. My guess is that at 20 + years old it is towards the end of best part of the drinking window, simply because there isn't an obvious direction in which it would go. The flavours are clean, the colour still soft red (not yet bricking), the tannins totally integrated, so unless there is sometnhing hidden, drink now and for the next 2-3 years. I'll keep one in the back of the cellar to try in a decade or so, to see if my suspicions are correct - if I can resist it.
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7/17/2011 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points
Chocolate, flowers, plums, spice, truffle and blackberry aromas open to a lush, polished wine with satin textures and a long, soft, cocoa and black cherry finish. This is close to mature. While it could improve over the next decade or even longer, it's drinking at the perfect place today.
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5/13/2011 - roquenroell wrote: 94 Points
Trotanoy 1990 vs 1998 and la Magdelaine 2000. The first glass unfortunately came form a corked bottle but the wait for our second glass was well worth it. For a 21 year old it was deeply satisfying, fresh and angelic. How do you rate a wine like this? It is currently ‘à point’ and should be drunk with vigor!
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3/16/2011 - pekingunther wrote: 93 Points
Elegance & Finesse, the 2 best words to describe this delicous wine. Still got a line of tanin to hold it all together, but the wine is close to its optimum, and what an optimum. The fruit is surprisingly light. More along the line of recurrant and cherry ratrher than the expected blackberry and blackcurrant. Truely enjoyable and one to be shared with friends with good food.... second bottle at BBQ, 3rd will need to be decanted at least 2 if not 3 hours
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12/28/2009 - John Nezlek wrote: 90 Points
I had this bottle at a restaurant as part of a larger meal (325 USD off the menu). Although quite good, I was not impressed as I thought I would be. I was expecting more in the 90+ range. The wine was a little thin -- not quite as full flavored as I expected. Tannins well in check. Fruit not all that pronounced. We did not decant it, but let it breathe for a good hour or so (maybe 90 minutes) before we started.
Good bottle, although I am not certain it was that good a QPR.
One caveat -- We drank this after we drank a pretty tasty Red Burgundy. I am not certain how this may affected my palate. I suspect not positively.
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7/9/2009 - WineForRob wrote: flawed
Knew storage of this one was suspect so not surprised. Fill level and bottle looked good but cork was toast. Gave wine an hours decant and it tasted like medicine. Gave more time to see what happened and there was just nothing there but funk. Oh well.
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6/5/2009 - futronic wrote: 93 Points
5th Annual Italian Offline Pre-Game (Simple Bistro, Toronto, Canada): Medium-dark ruby colour. Aromas of cedar box, cigar box, leather, spice, dried red fruit, licorice/anise. Medium-bodied, a little restrained initially, but opened to show lovely texture and balance. Very elegant with more cedar, tobacco, dried fruit notes. Lingering finish, ~40s. Very nice.
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6/5/2009 - wineismylife wrote: 91 Points
WIML91. No formal notes.
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5/3/2009 - SteveHoch wrote: 93 Points
very nice. Dark and deep color showing some brick at the edges. lots of spice on the nose with some cedar and good mineral tones. Lots of casis and blackberry undertones. nice balance and good finnish. A real nice nice bordeaux/
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9/2/2008 - mimik wrote: 91 Points
Nose of cassis and toasted oak. Classic claret style(ie not modern). Tight on the palate but elegant-fruit is restrained but structured. Lots of potential. Again, another 1990 that seems young.
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8/1/2008 - salil wrote: 93 Points
Dark red colour bricking a little at the rim. The nose is superb, showing complex aromas of cassis, cedar, spices, tobacco, floral notes and some hints of sandalwood. Very rich and forward on the palate with more flavours of cassis, red fuits, cedar, tobacco and cocoa with lots of power and elegance. The tannins are surprisingly firm, giving the impression that this wine has a long time ahead of it still. Finishes with good length. Wonderful to drink, although I suspect this may get even better with more age.
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6/27/2008 - ricknat1 wrote: 86 Points
We were disappointed in the wine. Clearly big, structured, but with a medium finis that ends in a slightly bitter aftertaste. Not sure if this will change with age. much beeter with the food than without, but would not buy again based on this experienc
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12/31/2007 - G Kapoor wrote: 94 Points
This bottles reconfirmed that pomerol's are my favs. Beautiful nose of flowers, honey and dates. On the palate it is fleshy, round with sweet dark fruit and a touch of meat. Wonderful.
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11/6/2007 - DaleW wrote:
Craig guesses Pomerol quickly. I had loved this wine at a '90 horizontal in 2005, but this doesn't show so well. Doesn't seem cooked or corked, but doesn't have the length or lushness I remember. Basic cassis fruit, a kind of ferric minerality. Marks notes iodine- I don't get that,but several others agree. Certainly a drinkable mature Bordeaux, but without being anything to search for (and most expensive wine of tasting). B
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11/14/2005 - MRichman wrote:
1990 Bordeaux Horizontal (Tribeca Grill): Rich, Thick. Beautiful coffee, dense core. Burnt, toast.
A-
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10/20/2000 - Bandreas wrote:
Tasted at California Wine Experience, NY "1990 Global Tasting"
Medium dense garnet color, closed nose, cooked taste. Very short.
nothing exciting. Will it live? I'm not sure I care… *** max
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