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  • Country ranking ?

    49
  • Producer ranking ?

    5
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    from 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Grilled Beef Tenderloin

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The Story

The chateau makes three different wines. The so-called grand vin, that is Château Latour itself, a second wine called Les Forts de Latour and a third wine simply called Pauillac. The grand vin comes from the original part of the vineyards, called the Enclos. This is the most prestigious part of the vineyard where the vines have a fine view of the Gironde estuary. The tradition in Bordeaux says that vines that overlook the water make the best w...

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Wine Information

Excitement about the potential of the 2015 Bordeaux vintage – and wine made in several other parts of France last autumn – has been rising for months. In Bordeaux,  but also in Burgundy,  Champagne and the Rhône, conditions were close to  ideal last summer.

Hours of sunshine and average temperatures were the highest since records began – even higher than in “mythical” wine-growing years such as 1921 and 1947. “We think we have something ver...

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Vintage 2015

Complete 2015 Bordeaux report by Andrew Caillard MW “Next in line of a great series of vintages; 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010 & 2015.”

 

2015 is a wonderful Bordeaux vintage without the hype or hysteria associated with 2009 and 2010. The wines are generally expressive and generous with marvellous concentration and structure. Give another year in barrel, the wines should gain more fruit complexity and volume. The Châteaux, across all sub-region...

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Average Bottle Price

2023
569€

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 Truffles, mint-leaf, blue fruits, blackberries, and currants pair with nuances of spice, smoke, leather, and cedar. Full-bodied, rich, and intense, there is a wealth of perfectly, ripe, creamy, opulent, sweet fruits that hold your interest, while expanding for over 50 seconds. There is length, opulence, balance, and flamboyance, along with vibrancy and refinement. Drink from 2025-2060.

  • 99p

Opaque purple colour. The nose is still closed but shows great intensity. Ripe black fruits, violets, spices and smokiness. Full-bodied palate has pronounced mineral character and mouthwatering acidic structure along with well-integrated mid-toasted oakiness. Fine ripe sour black fruit flavours and spicy notes - hints of grinded pepper. Lingering finish with ripe powdery tannins. Very polished and concentrated. Majestic wine, but at far too early stage to deliver its best. Drink in 2035-2045. JL 94p (4/2022) 

 

 

  • 95p

Tasted in April 2016. 97% Cabernet Sauvignon + 3% Merlot. Closed on the nose, powerhouse on the palate, great depth and complexity. Needs time to develop into something extremely special.

  • 96p
Dark purple red with violet hue and black core. Densely woven nose, still closed fruit, discreet spiciness, multi-layered character. On the palate very fine and mature tannins, excellent depth and length, well structured ripe fruit and hints of mild spices.
  • 98p
Deep colour. Classic powerful Pauillac with beautiful clear blackcurrant herb aniseed cedar aromas. Concentrated cassis, dark plum, cedar, flavours with chicory notes, fine muscular tannins and cedar complexity. Finish brambly firm but long in both flavour and minerality. Very precise, über-cool and for the long haul. Lengthens out at the finish. Compared to 1982. Bloody good wine.  98 points
  • 98p
Ruby. Scented, dark fruits, cassis, touch of chocolate, nuanced,quite intense, some leather and tobacco notes, minerals. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, fruity, red berries, spices, detailed and elegant, structured, long. 13% alcohol. 94-96
  • 95p
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Very good

Investment potential

Very Good

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