Area under vines: 11 hectares
Soils: red clay coating on limestone
Average age of the vines: 40 years
Production: 54 000 bottles a year
Ageing: 18 months in 100% new oak barrels
Grape varieties:
Second wine: Dame de Trotte Vieille
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The 2015 Trotte Vieille has an attractive bouquet with cedar and tobacco-tinged red fruit, well defined and poised with more terroir expression that many of its peers. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, crisp acidity, licorice-tinged red fruit with fine delineation toward the poised finish. This is an excellent Trotte Vieille that probably will deserve a higher score with bottle age. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.
Tasted blind. Some evolution at the rim. Sweet and fresh on the nose but not very concentrated, and with a note of oak still there. Drying tannins on the end. Good stuff.
Anticipated maturity: 2023-2030
The 2015 Trottevieille is blend of 49% Merlot, 49% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon picked between 28 September and 9 October matured in 100% new oak. It has a very intense bouquet, tightly wound with red and black fruit, hints of truffle coming through with aeration and then it appears to calm down and achieve a wonderful level of definition. The palate is medium-bodied with superb clarity. It feels supple in the mouth, extremely pure and soaking up the new oak with ease. It has a lively orange sorbet and red fruit-driven finish that is silky smooth in texture, thanks to the fineness of the tannin. Cellar this for 5-8 years minimum and then revel in this ascendant Saint Emilion for the next three or four decades.
Anticipated maturity: 2022-2050
