Chateau Trotanoy 2003

WEINWISSER: "Mittleres Granat-Rubin. Süsses Bouquet, Johannisbeergelee, Veilchennoten, sanft kompottig im zweiten Ansatz, Pfirsichkern. Im Gaumen sehr saftig, zarte Honig-Malz-Spuren, somit auch schön cremig, im Innern des Extrakts noch leicht kernig und verlangend, sich momentan nicht so richtig offenbarend, obwohl sich dahinter ein sehr langlebiger und grosser Trotanoy versteckt, kann wieder einen Punkt zulegen."

JAMES SUCKLING: "Beautifully intense fruit here, with a raspberry jam and floral character on the nose. Full and round, soft and silky. A very long finish with amazing fruit, almost like a new world wine with it’s juiciness. Drinking this is pure excitement."

WINE SPECTATOR: "This sports a warm fig bread and Christmas pudding profile, with steeped plum and fig notes lined with smoldering tobacco and humus accents. Slightly grainy in feel, but showing ample length and drive for the vintage.—Blind ´01/´03/´05 Bordeaux retrospective (December 2017). Best from 2020 through 2032. 1,250 cases made."

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "As always, the 2003 Trotanoy is a meaty, burly style of wine, but the tannins have all been resolved. A dark plum/ruby color is accompanied by sweet black currant and mulberry notes intertwined with hints of truffles and earth. This medium- to full-bodied, delicious Pomerol is clearly one of the finest 2003s made in this appellation, whose lighter soils did not fare well in this vintage. Trotanoy’s clay and deep minerality have saved it. Drink it over the next 4-5 years."