"...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.
| RED | 2019 | 4 cases | Château Latour | 75cl | £1,395 per case of 3 | Château Latour 2019 / 4 cases / 75cl £1,395 per case of 3 |
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Tasting Notes"The 2019 Latour is every bit as impressive as it has always been. Silky and caressing on the palate, with exceptional balance, the 2019 has so much going on. Dark red fruit, new leather, spice and a kick of blood orange are some of the notes that build in the glass, but ultimately the 2019 impresses most with its textural finesse. There was a bit of rain during harvest, but that does not appear to have been much of an issue. The 2019 is a quintessentially modern Latour, a wine that deftly marries power with elegance. Yields came in at 45 hectoliters per hectare, quite a bit higher than the long-term average of 34 hectoliters per hectare. 98 points" Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com------"Tobacco, liqourice and graphite all spread on toasted sandalwood, cedar, gunsmoke, cassis, black truffle, bilberry, crushed rocks and incense. The tannins here are very much slate and pumice stone, you feel the salt scrape, the length and persistance, and the oh-so-slow unrolling of pleasure. This has graceful depths and floral aromatics alongside Pauillac muscles and is a stellar Latour that needs another three or four years of cellaring to really soften. Overall yield of just under 45hl/h, unusual as the average yield at Latour is closer to 35hl/h. 100% new oak for ageing, 36% of overall production. 98 points" janeanson.com------"The 2019 Latour is elegance and class personified. The picture of modern-day Latour, the 2019 is virtually seamless in the glass, with all the elements beautifully woven together. Bright saline notes lend energy as well as tension throughout. The 2019 is not an explosive or huge wine, but it is immensely elegant and polished in the modern style of Latour, much of which, in my view, is the result of biodynamic farming and better balance in the vineyard. Specifically, the broad, imposing tannins that were once a Latour signature appear to be a thing of the past. 2031-2069. 98+ points." Neal Martin, Vinous------"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. Unwinding in the glass with scents of rich cassis fruit, English walnuts, cigar wrapper, black truffle, loamy soil and violets, it’s full-bodied, layered and muscular, with huge depth at the core, ripe tannins and lively acids, concluding with a long, seemingly interminable finish. Checking in at 14.1% alcohol, this prodigious Latour will require two decades to hit its stride, but it will be more than worth the wait. 2036-2070. 99+ points." William Kelley, The Wine Advocate------"Looking at the Grand Vin, the 2019 Château Latour is another perfect wine in the vintage and is as prodigious as they come. Revealing a deep purple hue, it displays a powerful and complex array of pure Pauillac cassis-like fruit as well as lead pencil, graphite, chalky minerality, truffle, and espresso and shows the vintage’s more elegant style perfectly, with nothing out of place. It is medium to full-bodied, with ripe, sweet tannins, but it still has that classic Latour regalness, concentration, structure, and class, with just a hint of its normal youthful austerity. This flawless balanced, structured, insanely good Latour will be drinkable in just 7-8 years but evolve for 40-50 years in cold cellars. Hats off to the team of technical director Hélène Génin and CEO Frédéric Engerer. 2030-2080. 100 points." Jeb Dunnuck |
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