Château Tronquoy, 2020
Château Tronquoy, 2020
- 75cl
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
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Optimal drinking window: Now - 2055
Est. delivery in Winter, 2025
Fresh-faced from a titanic performance at the Southwold blind tasting last year, we've finally got our paws on the latest release of Club favourite Chateau Tronquoy. Neal Martin called it “the surprise performance of the [Southwold] tasting”, awarding 95 points, in touching distance of First Growths and outperforming many of the Left and Right Bank's most famous addresses. Jeb Dunnuck also scored 95 points, declaring this “one of the finest vintages of this cuvée to date”.
Tronquoy is a bona fide cult wine at Honest Grapes, and is in fact, our fastest-selling claret ever. Every time we offer it, bottles vanish in a flash. We've been enjoying the 2018, 2017 and even the 2014, and every one shows the same hallmark refinement and poise after a decent decant. It’s the definition of over-delivering Bordeaux: serious Left Bank classed-growth quality at the price of a humble Cru Bourgeois.
If past vintages are anything to go by, this will be gone before you know it. Load up while you can — this is the case you’ll want in the cellar (and on the dinner table) for years to come.
What the critics say:
"The 2020 Tronquoy-Lalande puts in the surprise performance of the tasting with a quite stellar showing. It has superb mineralité on the nose, very well defined and full of vigor—perhaps the most sophisticated within the flight of Saint-Estèphe wines. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins. It's a "solid" and structured wine, but it also conveys delineation and tension toward the hoisin-tinged finish. Very persistent on the finish, this is a class act. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting."
"Coming from a vintage compared to 2016 and 2019 by the château, the 2020 Château Tronquoy-Lalande checks in as 52% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Petit Verdot, hitting 13.5% alcohol. Beautiful cassis, plums, damp earth, and chocolate notes all emerge from this beauty, which is a layered, medium to full-bodied, gorgeously textured Saint-Estèphe. The tannins are present yet polished, and it has a great mid-palate and outstanding length. I'd wager this is one of the finest vintages of this cuvée to date. It has the purity of fruit and opulence to shine even today, yet I suspect it won't hit prime time for 7-8 years, and it should have 20 years of prime drinking at that point."
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