The 2024 Trotanoy is rich and muscular by the standards of the vintage, offering up aromas of minty blackberries, cherries and spices followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered palate with a dense core of fruit and plenty of structuring tannin that asserts itself on the youthfully chewy finish.
Mid-deep ruby. Wild red fruits on the nose, mixing raspberry, cherry and blackberry with notes of bracken and wild herbs. The palate is chalky and deep, conveying a sense of gravitas. The fruit has a herbal tinge, with notes of thyme and bay leaf, with the oak knitting in nicely already. Long rather than broad, this is a wine of focus and intensity.
A serious Trotanoy, as you would expect in the vintage, this has juice and restraint and a slow build. It grows on me more and more as it opens, spiralling with violet and peony flowers, graphite and slate, but it has less of the immediacy of La Fleur-Pétrus, and in this vintage, you might want to take your pleasures where you can find them. Instead this is one to bet on, knowing the exceptional ability of this estate to deliver over the long-term, even in difficult vintages. 50% new oak. Harvest 17 to 28 September, no chaptilisation. No plans for a 2nd wine (Esperance de Trotanoy) in this vintage.
The 2024 Trotanoy is super-classic. Vertical in build, the 2024 stains the palate with copious dark-toned fruit, graphite, licorice, dried herbs and lavender. It's a beautifully proportioned wine from start to finish. All the Trotanoy signatures are present, but without all of the tannic heft of some of the more imposing recent vintages. That's not a bad thing at all. Drink 2034-2054.
The 2024 Trotanoy, picked from September 17 to 28 and aged in 50% new oak, has an intense bouquet with blackberry, bilberry, crushed stone and delicate violet scents that unfold in the glass. It lacks the aromatic ambition of a great Trotanoy, but the terroir shows through. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grain tannins framing the mineral-rich black fruit. There is a symmetry about this Pomerol that keeps drawing you back, gaining weight and depth on the finish. Trotanoy, yet again, demonstrates why it is so highly regarded. 2032 - 2060
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