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Wine Description
The Story
Château Trotanoy, a famous growth whose soil was too hard to work (« trop anoi » in medieval French) is located on the Right Bank of the Bordeaux wine region on one of the most beautiful parts of Pomerol. As all wine produced in this appellation, Château Trotanoy is unclassified, but the estate is estimated among the great growths of the region. It was purchased in 1953 by the Ets Jean-Pierre Moueix. Château Trotanoy’s vineyard was one of the ...
Wine Information
We have to admit it….. we love Trotanoy. We wake up with the view of their beautiful cypress trees when we are in Pomerol, and we love how this wine ages so well. The 2020 vintage suits Trotanoy with its dark glossy colour and fabulous nose of violets, cassis, cedar, sweet blueberries, floral notes of hedgerow blossom and a touch of oak. The texture is velvety, soft and very beautiful with a tannic reverberation which is very energetic. This w...
Vintage 2020
In Bordeaux, the heat resulted in early flowering. Also, this led to an early harvest after a very hot summer. As a starting point, there is great maturity in the grapes, and one can expect a more opulent vintage than in the last few years.
The summer this year has been the warmest since 1959, yet the rain has fallen at the right times during the growing season. The harvest took place two weeks before the norm and will yield grapes with hig...