critic reviews
The 2018 Trotanoy is 100% Merlot. Deep garnet-purple in color, it needs a little swirling before it erupts with powerful notes of crushed black cherries, blackberry pie, and dark chocolate, leading to suggestions of licorice, cast-iron pan, charcuterie, and Indian spices. The full-bodied palate is so tightly knit, giving glimpses at bright black fruits and mineral layers framed by firm, rounded tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long on a lingering ferrous note.
The 2018 Trotanoy is one that I described as one of the vintage’s best wines when I tasted it from barrel. Now in bottle, it delivers a heavenly bouquet of mixed red and black fruit, iron filing, truffle and mint aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with wonderful structure and poise. This is an extremely complex Pomerol, lightly peppered with gentle but insistent grip toward the finish. You can feel it lingering in the mouth for 60 seconds afterward. Returning to the same bottle the following day, it had, remarkably, blossomed into an even greater Pomerol, gaining cohesion and revealing its symmetry and structure, with even more complexity and nuance on the finish. A titan.