Château Trotanoy - Pomerol 2000 (750ml)
Price: $420.00
| Producer | Château Trotanoy |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pomerol |
| Varietal | Cabernet Franc , Merlot |
| Vintage | 2000 |
| Sku | 10639 |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Spectator: 97 Points
Still a bit of a brick house with very solid charcoal and loam notes forming the base while the core of dense fig blackberry and black currant confiture flavors settles in. This is seriously long and the smoldering tobacco and roasted alder notes just keep going and going through the finish. This hasn't really started to unwind yet. -- Blind 2000 Bordeaux retrospective (December 2015). Best from 2020 through 2035. 2000 cases made.
James Suckling: 95 Points
This starts off with fabulous aromas of milk chocolate plums and subtle spices. Full bodied with super silky tannins and a long long finish. Tight but just starting to open up. I?m loving the fresh acidity at the end. Needs another five to six years bottle age.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
Tasted at the Trotanoy vertical in Hong Kong the 2000 Trotanoy seems to be improving with age. It has an outstanding bouquet with far more fruit intensity than I anticipated: mulberry blackberry briary broom and white pepper all mingling together with superb delineation. The palate displays exquisite balance fresh and focused with a clean and precise finish that is only just beginning to show what it can do. Like so many millennial Bordeaux it has matured at its own pace however on this showing it seems determined to reward those with the greatest patience. Tasted November 2016. Published: Jun 30 2017
Vinous: 94+ Points
95% merlot and 5% cabernet franc): Deep saturated red. Highly perfumed nose of black plum lavender cedar chocolate and Oriental spices. Enters sweet round and broad then turns a bit tougher with hints of earth and game complicating bright cassis and mocha flavors. There is an amazing freshness to this wine that helps extend the fruit flavors at the back and the finish is long and smooth. In this vintage's early days it was tightly wound and austere but it's now beginning to slowly blossom and become more expressive. This is often the case with Trotanoy which usually needs a good ten years from the vintage to really come into its own. A very successful 2000. - By Ian D'Agata on March 2012
The Wine Independent: 94 Points
The 2000 Trotanoy is medium to deep garnet-brick in color. It strides confidently out of the glass with classic mature scents of cigar box iron ore and new leather leading to a core of prune and dried figs with a touch of dried lavender and sandalwood. The medium-bodied palate is elegantly styled with great tension and loads of tertiary layers textured by powdery tannins and finishing on a lingering ferrous note.
