1971 Chateau Trotanoy Pomerol

(95 Points) It had been a few years since I last drank a bottle of the 1971 Château Trotanoy, and the wine has not lost a step since my last glass. The wine remains placed right smack dab in the middle of its plateau of maturity and offers up a deep, complex and beautifully refined nose of black plums, dark berries, gravelly soil tones, plenty of smokiness, a note of black tea and just a hint of new leather in the upper register. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, complex and very pure, with a lovely core of black fruit, fine soil inflection and grip, melted tannins and a long, vibrant and absolutely à point finish. The fact that Bordeaux vintages like 1962, 1966 and 1971 have been so relatively overlooked in much of the wine journalism of the last forty years underscores just how poorly this region was covered back in the day, despite the general impression that Bordeaux was thorough back in the day! The ’71 Trotanoy has been drinking seamlessly for decades, but shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.  John Gilman, Review Date: 05/2021