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1982 Château Trotanoy

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November 5, 2023 - $515

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RATINGS

94Robert M. Parker Jr.

...plenty of sweet kirsch, herb, truffle, and earthy notes emerge from the wine’s complex, explosive aromatics, as well as beautiful glycerin and sweetness...

94Vinous / IWC

(90% merlot and 10% cabernet franc; 12.7% alcohol):..aromas of red cherry, strawberry jam, sweet herbs, faded flowers and leather..Large scaled and creamy..smoothly tannic..lingering spiciness..still has some positive evolution ahead of it.

94+ Stephen Tanzer

...A coulis of raspberry and cherry on the nose. Juicy and penetrating...with superb clarity and structure and lovely restrained sweetness. A subtle floral quality adds complexity...firmer and classier than most top right-bank '82s...

93Wine Spectator

Not quite as grand as I remember, but still a rich, pretty Pomerol. Dark ruby-garnet color, with tobacco, cherry and earth character. Full-bodied and concentrated, with firm tannins and a long, ripe fruit and dark chocolate finish.

****Michael Broadbent

...very good...a perfectly rich drink.

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pomerol

Pomerol is the smallest of Bordeaux’s red wine producing regions, with only about 2,000 acres of vineyards. Located on the east side of the Dordogne River, it is one of the so-called “right bank” appellations and therefore planted primarily to Merlot. Pomerol is unique in Bordeaux in that it is the only district never to have been rated in a classification system. Some historians think Pomerol’s location on the right bank made it unattractive to Bordeaux-based wine traders, who had plenty of wine from Medoc and Graves to export to England and northern Europe. Since ranking estates was essentially a marketing ploy to help brokers sell wine, ranking an area where they did little business held no interest for them. Pomerol didn’t get much attention from the international wine community until the 1960s, when Jean-Pierre Moueix, an entrepreneurial wine merchant, started buying some of Pomerol’s best estates and exporting the wines. Today the influential Moueix family owns Pomerol’s most famous estate, Château Pétrus, along with numerous other Pomerol estates. Pomerol wines, primarily Merlot blended with small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, are considered softer and less tannic than left bank Bordeaux.

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