Latour. Chateau Bordeaux Blend Bordeaux 2009
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Captivating aromas of currant black licorice and spices with just a hint of sweet tobacco. Full-bodied with chewy tannins and a long long finish. Structured and racy. Best after 2011. 10 000 cases made. JS Wine Spectator.
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Captivating aromas of currant black licorice and spices with just a hint of sweet tobacco. Full-bodied with chewy tannins and a long long finish. Structured and racy. Best after 2011. 10 000 cases made. JS Wine Spectator.

A terrific effort from Administrator Frederic Engerer and owner Francois Pinault the dark ruby/purple-tinged 2004 Latour exhibits a strong cassis character intermixed with notes of crushed rocks earth cedar and forest floor. Racy elegant but powerful with medium to full body and sweet tannin it will benefit from 5-7 years of cellaring and should keep for three decades. It is a very impressive offering. Also tasted: 2004 Pauillac (87; 38.00) Robert Parkers Wine Advocate.

So minty with loads of subtle ripe fruit and eucalyptus undertones. Full-bodied with ultrafine tannins and a long long finish. Caresses every inch of the palate. It s the quality of the tannins that s impressive here. What a great and beautiful wine. Should improve for many years to come.- 88/ 98 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2008). Drink now. -JS Wine Spectator.

Tasted at a private dinner in Zurich. This particular bottle was actually purchased ex-chateau which would go a long way in explaining its exemplary performance. For a start it is very youthful in colour. The palate is paradigmatic of the vintage: masculine perhaps a little dusty with broody black fruit graphite and sous-bois - hints of truffle hitching along for the ride. The palate is wonderfully balanced with firm tannins plenty of austere black fruit and a strict but vivacious graphite-

The dark ruby/garnet-colored 1975 Latour offers up a dry mineral tobacco stony-scented nose with red and black currants competing with cedar spice box and balsam wood aromas. Hard and dense in the mouth with tough astringent tannin a steely constitution plenty of concentration but an unflattering backward style this youthful 1975 is capable of lasting two more decades. Will it become increasingly attenuated and hard? Anticipated maturity: now-2020. Robert Parkers Wine Advocate.

Fascinating aromas of plums minerals and mint with a hint of peat. Medium- to full-bodied with firm tannins and a long finish. Plenty of life left in it. This was rather controversial at the NY tasting but I loved it.--Latour vertical. Drink now through 2015. Wine Spectator.
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