2012 Trotanoy, Pomerol

This is one of the finest young vintages of Château Trotanoy I have ever had the pleasure to taste. The wine is deep, pure and utterly classic on both the nose and palate. The sensational bouquet offers up a stunning array of plums, mulberries, tobacco leaf, coffee, a brilliantly complex base of soil, cigar smoke, violets and a lovely base of nutty new wood. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and rock solid at the core, with a very poised and soil-driven personality, laser-like focus, fine-grained and substantial tannins and stunning length and grip on the youthful and endless finish. This is just a brilliant young Trotanoy! (Drink between 2025-2075)

A spectacular Pomerol that is dense ruby/purple with notes of beef blood, crème de cassis, black cherry liqueur, licorice, iron, and perhaps a touch of truffle. Full-bodied, opulent and clearly a blockbuster of 2012, this profound wine offers serious competition for Petrus and several other limited-production, high-quality Pomerols. This is a stunner from the Moueix firm and should age well for 20-25 years. The final blend was 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, with only 2,000 cases produced. (RP)