 L’Esperance de Trotanoy is not made in every vintage.In the 18th century when owned by the pioneering Giraud family, the estate enjoyed a good reputation under the name Trop Ennuie, (too annoying in medieval French) a name indicating that cultivating the soil was difficult.In the early 20th century Jean-Jacques Moueix, nephew of Jean-Pierre Moueix, gave the estate its present name.