"...2019 Château Latour is another perfect wine in the vintage and is as prodigious as they come... 100 points." — Jeb Dunnuck

"The 2019 Latour is a profound wine in the making, and it will surely emerge as one of the most long-lived wines of the vintage, as well as one of the greatest...99+ points." — William Kelley, The Wine Advocate

Released to the market this morning for the first time, 2019 Château Latour arrives with a perfect 100-point score from Jeb Dunnuck, alongside 99+ points from The Wine Advocate - a higher rating than the excellent 2016. Despite this, it is offered at £1,395 per three bottles, around 15% below the current market price of the 2016.

The 2019 growing season in Bordeaux was notably more even-tempered than the preceding year.  With fewer extremes of weather and lower overall heat accumulation, the vintage produced healthy fruit with little disease pressure. Summer temperatures were generally moderate, despite a few brief heat spikes, while well-timed rainfall in June, July, and September helped maintain balance through the growing season. The result is a vintage notable for its outstanding aromatic purity and intensity. 

We vividly remember experiencing this for the first time, when we tasted samples sent to us in spring 2020, during the early months of Covid.  For the same reason, we missed our usual visit to the château to taste Latour 2019 in situ, so we rely on the critics' impressions.  Fortunately, they are pretty unanimous, with Neal Martin describing the wine as “the picture of modern-day Latour” — a vintage in which the formidable tannic structure of older Latours gives way to a more poised and inviting style without sacrificing depth or longevity.

Also released for the first time this morning, 2020 Forts de Latour scores 96 points from Jeb Dunnuck and is described as 'a blockbuster', with superb comments from the other major critics, along with 18 points from Jancisrobinson.com, a score more usually associated with the grands vins from top cru classé! 

Stock is extremely limited. Please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to secure an allocation from this first release.

Offered ex-Château, very limited availability.  Landing in the UK in autumn 2026.