1983 Trotanoy, Pomerol

“The 1983 Trotanoy is a beautiful example of the vintage and one of the great unsung years for this estate in the superb decade of the 1980s. The excellent bouquet offers up a very complex and classic mélange of dark berries, roasted plums, cigar smoke, a touch of new leather, tobacco leaf, incipient nuttiness, coffee, a beautiful base of gravelly soil, fresh herbs, incipient notes of black truffles and a smoke topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and impressively complex, with a fine core of fruit, superb elegance and focus, modest tannins and lovely length and grip on the perfectly balanced, creamy and light on its feet finish. A beautiful bottle of Trotanoy, the 1983 is now just arriving its apogee of peak drinkability and should cruise along at this fine level for another two or three decades- and may be even more enjoyable with another five or six years of the tannins melting further into the background. (Drink between 2013-2035) 92+ points” (10/2013)