Château Trotanoy

Château Trotanoy is a wine estate in Pomerol, in Bordeaux, France. It is part of the portfolio of properties owned by the Moueix family and is associated with Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix, the family wine business founded by Jean-Pierre Moueix in Libourne in 1937. The estate is known in the context of the Moueix portfolio as one of the family’s Pomerol properties; it should be distinguished from the wider négociant business, which also distributes Bordeaux and California wines. The supplied company history records that Jean-Pierre Moueix acquired Trotanoy in 1953, after acquiring Château La Fleur-Pétrus in 1950. The family’s activities combine wine production at its estates with wine trading and distribution. The Moueix company describes itself as a family business and says it is directed by Christian and Edouard Moueix, representing the second and third generations. Its portfolio includes properties in Pomerol, Saint-Émilion and California’s Napa Valley. Trotanoy’s commercial identity is that of a château and wine-estate brand rather than a general retailer or a broad consumer-goods company. Its core offering is wine produced under the estate’s name. The available evidence does not specify detailed current product ranges, production volumes, grape composition, pricing, or distribution arrangements for Trotanoy itself. The Moueix company’s international distribution of wines provides context for the group’s reach, but the supplied material does not establish specific markets or channels for this individual estate.

Château Trotanoy is a wine estate in Pomerol, Bordeaux, and a property in the Moueix family’s portfolio. The available official company history places the estate within the expansion of the wine business established by Jean-Pierre Moueix. He founded Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix in 1937 as a wine merchant in Libourne, trading wines en primeur and wines available for delivery. The company history presents the business as a family enterprise that grew through both wine trading and estate ownership. Jean-Pierre Moueix began acquiring properties in the Libournais after establishing his trading house. In 1950, he acquired Château La Fleur-Pétrus in Pomerol. The official history then records the acquisitions of Château Magdelaine in Saint-Émilion and Château Trotanoy in Pomerol in 1952 and 1953, respectively. Thus, 1953 is the documented year of the Moueix acquisition of Trotanoy, not an evidenced founding date for the estate itself. The Moueix history describes the subsequent decades as a period in which Jean-Pierre Moueix developed the company’s trading and wine-production activities in parallel. The family’s estate portfolio later included properties in Pomerol and Saint-Émilion as well as Napa Valley in California. The company identifies Château Trotanoy among its Pomerol holdings, alongside Château La Fleur-Pétrus. The business remains described by Moueix as a family company. Its official history says that Christian and Edouard Moueix direct the company, representing the second and third generations. This context explains the estate’s connection to the Moueix organization, but the available source does not give a separate founding date for Château Trotanoy, a detailed account of its earlier ownership, or estate-specific information about vineyard size, production, wine composition, or distribution. The supported history of the brand is therefore centered on its documented inclusion in the Moueix portfolio from 1953 onward and its continued association with the family’s wine-estate activities.

• 1953

  Moueix acquires Château Trotanoy

• 1950

  Moueix acquires Château La Fleur-Pétrus

• 1937

  Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix founded

A Pomerol château and wine-estate brand within the Moueix family’s portfolio.

• Château Trotanoy wine

  Wine produced under the estate’s name; detailed current product specifications are not established by the supplied evidence.

1. 1Moueix | Pomerol, Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux, Napa Valleymoueix.com
2. 2Historique | Moueixmoueix.com