Michael Schuster: Dense, sweet, freshly ripe fruit to smell; rich, middleweight wine with a finely firm tannin and fresh acidity; ripe, fresh, tenacious blackberry-sweet flavor, spicy, generous, long, and sapid—overall, a firmish, slightly austere style, complex and well sustained across the palate; plenty of that blackberry-ripe flavor, warm, complex, mouth-coating, and with a fine, freshly, juicily sweet, spicy length. A very fine, firm, long-term Trotanoy. 2015–40. 18/18.5+