1995 Chateau Trotanoy, Pomerol (750ml)
96 points Wine SpectatorDried flowers, with chocolate and hints of fruit. Quickly opens and gives you more on the nose if you look for it. Full-bodied, with velvety tannins and a long, caressing finish. Builds on your palate. Still needs time. Racy and refined. Fantastic.--'95/'96 Bordeaux retrospective. Best after 2008. (JS) (3/2007) 95 points John GilmanIt had been so many years since I last crossed paths with a bottle of 1995 Trotanoy that I was thrilled to see this vintage in our lineup. This is another absolutely classic vintage of this great estate, and my gut feeling that the 1995 is the second coming of the legendary 1975 Trotanoy and all this great wine needs is more time in the cellar to reach fruition. The stunningly pure and focused nose offers up a superb blend of black plums, cherries, dark chocolate, Cuban tobacco, incipient notes of black truffle, dark soil tones, nutskin and a deft framing of vanillin oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, poised and now quite p