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Red Bordeaux |
1964 |
Latour a Pomerol
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1 |
Bottle |
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75cl |
£320 |
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Red Bordeaux |
1983 |
Latour
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3 |
Bottle |
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75cl |
£360 |
Tasted from my cellar, this wine is fully mature, not terribly concentrated, and slightly herbaceous, exhibiting aromas of sweaty saddle leather, melted asphalt, tobacco, and red as well as black fruits. Notions of caramel and roasted nuts also emerge. A medium-bodied effort with soft tannin, but little persistence and length, it requires consumption over the next decade.
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88 |
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Red Bordeaux |
1985 |
Latour
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1 |
Bottle |
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75cl |
£390 |
Score: 88 Robert Parker, Bordeaux Book (4), December 2003
Score: 87 Robert Parker, Bordeaux Book (3), November 1998
Score: 88 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (129), June 2000
This wine was tasted from my personal collection, following the Latour tasting. The 1985 Latour is a soft, open-knit example, without much structure, delineation, and depth. The dark ruby color displays amber at the edge. The bouquet of tobacco, black fruits, herbs, earth, and new oak is pleasant, but neither intense nor persistent. The wine is medium-bodied, with sweet fruit on the attack, but it narrows out to reveal dry tannin and herbaceous notes. Anticipated maturity: now-2012.
Score: 88 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (129), April 2000
Score: 94 James Suckling, Wine Spectator, August 2000
Almost as great as the 1982. Dense and luscious with amazingly deep plum, blackberry and chocolate aromas and flavors. Full-bodied and full tannins. A wine with a terrific future. Try after 1998.--The Bordeaux 50. (JS) 95points
James Suckling, Wine Spectator
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88 |
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Red Bordeaux |
1997 |
Latour
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1 |
Bottle |
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75cl |
£360 |
Rating:
89
Price ($)
$180
Drink Date
2000 - 2014
Reviewed by
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Issue Date
21st Apr 2000
Source
128, The Wine Advocate
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89 |
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Red Bordeaux |
1998 |
Les Forts de Latour
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3 |
Bottle |
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75cl |
£150 |
Score: 88 Robert Parker, Bordeaux Book (4), December 2003
Score: 86/87+ Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (128), April 2000
Consistently Bordeaux's best "second" wine, a star in its own right. This is a very open, blackcurrant fruit wine with elegance and harmony and good weight on the palate with quite a sweet, oaky finish. FV15.5.
Score: 15.5 Farr Vintners, June 1999
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88 |
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Red Bordeaux |
2005 |
Latour
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1 |
Case |
6 |
150cl |
£7,250 |
The 2005 Latour (87% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Merlot and Petit Verdot) is a spectacular effort from Château Latour. It has an inky plum/purple color and a gorgeous nose of graphite, crème de cassis, and floral notes with some forest floor in the background. It is full-bodied, super-concentrated, and for my taste, probably one of the two or three most intense, rich, and complex wines of the entire Médoc. The wine has great texture, purity and a finish of close to 40 or 45 seconds. The tannins are surprisingly sweet, even in this large-scaled, masculine wine. Drink it over the next 50+ years. Drink 2015-2065.
Score: 98 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (219), June 2015
Only 44% of the production made it into the dense ruby/purple-hued 2005 Latour, a powerful, backward, 12,000-case blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon and 13% Petit Verdot and Merlot. As I wrote last year, this classic effort is built for the ages, and is largely destined to be drunk by our offspring rather than anyone over the age of 50 today. Complex aromas of crushed rocks, graphite, black cherries, creme de cassis, new saddle leather, and dried mushrooms are still tightly wound. The wine is full-bodied and powerful with exceptionally high tannin combined with zesty acidity, and laser-like focus. It will require 15 or more years of cellaring. I still prefer the 2003, but administrator Frederic Engerer says this “is more Latour.” Anticipated maturity: 2020-2060. Latour is always the most difficult Medoc first-growth to find, largely because the vineyard and production are much smaller than its’ peers and because of the severe selection routinely done by owner Francois Pinault and administrator Frederic Engerer.
Score: 96+ Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (176), April 2008
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98 |
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Red Bordeaux |
2007 |
Les Forts de Latour
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1 |
Bottle |
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75cl |
£140 |
The outstanding 2007 Les Forts de Latour reveals a touch of graphite and black currant fruit intermixed with an unmistakable minerality. It is a generous, silky textured, medium to full-bodied, evolved, elegant, and pure offering that is ideal for drinking over the next 10-12+ years. Drink 2010-2022. Score: 90
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90 |
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Red Bordeaux |
2008 |
Latour
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1 |
Case |
12 |
75cl |
£4,800 |
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95 |
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Red Bordeaux |
2009 |
Latour
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1 |
Case |
6 |
75cl |
£5,000 |
A blend of 91.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.7% Merlot with just under 14% natural alcohol, the 2009 Latour is basically a clone of the super 2003, only more structured and potentially more massive and long lived. An elixir of momentous proportions, it boasts a dense purple color as well as an extraordinarily flamboyant bouquet of black fruits, graphite, crushed rocks, subtle oak and a notion of wet steel. It hits the palate with a thundering concoction of thick, juicy blue and black fruits, lead pencil shavings and a chalky minerality. Full-bodied, but very fresh with a finish that lasts over a minute, this is one of the most remarkable young wines I have ever tasted. Will it last one-hundred years? No doubt about it. Can it be drunk in a decade? For sure. Proprietor Francois Pinault and his director, Frederic Engerer, have pulled out all the stops to produce one of the most monumental Latour’s ever made.
Score: 100
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate 01 March 2012
The 2009 Latour has off the charts concentration in addition to the highest level of tannin ever measured at the estate. The final blend was somewhat unusual in that it consists of 91.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.7% Merlot, and clocked in at 13.7% alcohol (even higher than the 2003). Possibly a 100-year wine, it boasts an inky/black/purple color as well as an extraordinary perfume of super-intense blue and black fruits, graphite, and a liqueur of rocks-like minerality. Enormously full-bodied yet at the same time incredibly fresh, vibrant, and precise, it coats the mouth, and builds incrementally to skyscraper-like texture, and a whopping finish that lasts over a minute. This remarkable wine reveals a certain accessibility already, yet one senses that it will be even richer, more nuanced, and fuller by the time it is bottled in mid-2011. A monumental wine from a monumental vintage in the Medoc, this is our children's children's children's elixir. (Tasted once.) There is no doubting that Director Frederic Engerer and owner Francois Pinault are thrilled with what they have accomplished at Latour. These three wines are hugely different in price, but all are extraordinary.
Score: 98 - 100
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate 01 April 2010
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100 |
