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Château Latour 2000

Château Latour, Bordeaux, France

Château Latour
Bordeaux France
  • 100
    Points
  • The 87 best
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    wines globally
  • 22 Pros of
    24 recommend
    this wine
1302 100
  • Taste
  • Moment

  • Country ranking ?

    71

  • Producer ranking ?

    8

  • Decanting time

    4h

  • When to drink

    now to 2040

  • Food Pairing

    truffled white pudding

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Château Latour decided to release the Grand Vin de Château Latour 2000 and Les Forts de Latour 2009 onto the market.

 For the last three years we have been selecting wines from our cellars that we think will best satisfy our clients and connoisseurs of the Estate. 

This year we have decided to offer the Grand Vin de Château Latour 2000 and Les Forts de Latour 2009.

Château Latour 2000 is a giant of a wine that evolves slowly. After 16...

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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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Vintage 2000

BORDEAUX 2000 – A  DREAM VINTAGE

Weather conditions / Vintage 2000 has from the very start been proclaimed as one of the best vintages of modern times. In spring 2003, I've had many opportunities to find out, if we really have a true dream vintage in our hands.

During harvest 2000, while doing "personal inspection" in the vineyards, I noticed that something extraordinary big was on its way. Grapes looked extremely healthy.

While sorti...

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Average Bottle Price

2022 2020 2018 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2005
910€ +5.2% 865€ -1.7% 880€ +5.5% 834€ +2.1% 817€ -10.4% 912€ -2.4% 934€ +1.7% 918€ -22.7% 1 187€ +25.6% 945€ +202.9% 312€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Latest Pro-tasting notes

27 tasting notes

Tasting note

color

Deep and Ruby red

ending

Long, Lingering and Extensive

flavors

Blackberry, Raspberry, Mint, Vanilla, Cedar and Cigar-box

nose

Intense, Fresh, Generous and Charming

recommend

Yes

taste

Complex, Perfectly balanced, Well-Integrated, Full-bodied, Vigor, Ripe, Fresh and Silky tannins

Verdict

Transparent and Outstanding

Written Notes

The 2000 Latour, however, was appropriately served last in this superlative flight. ‘Is that a powerful wine or what?’ Someone rhetorically asked. It was a penetrating beast, sinus-clearing with its t ‘n a, along with aromas of cement, cedar and a touch of milkshake. Rich, concentrated and dense, the Latour was the biggest wine of the evening and also the thickest and the longest. Game emerged in this behemoth of a wine. It reminded me of that Kayne West song where the chorus goes, ‘bigger, longer, faster, stronger.’ While I am hesitant to give young wines scores in the 98 and 99 point territory because my convictions are that those scores are for wines that stand the test of time, the 2000 Latour left me no choice
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  • 98p

 Just entering the start of its long drinking window, everything about this wine rocks! The nose, with its cedar, range of tobaccos, currants, smoke, spice, and blackberries is what you initially notice. But it is on the palate, with its concentration, length, purity, expansiveness, and richness that owns the show. There is no hurry to drink this future legend. But if you are sitting on a case, why not check it out? Drink from 2023-2065.

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  • 100p

Latour 2000 was still dressed up in baby “clothes” Great potential and many years to go. Gobs of fruit and tannin waiting patiently to come up to the surface. 99p. 

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  • 99p

A blackberry hue, with scents of rich leather, cooked caramel, berries and forest floor. Youthfully forward on the palate, supple and appealing with rich concentration. Tannins are abundant, yet fine, and persist throughout a layering of textural sensation. The richness of this wine correlates with the fine dust of the Bordeaux soils. Finish expresses oak (French barrel) and Latour fruit-forward impressions. This wine is  tannic, rich and squared off by our signature suppleness.

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  • 98p

Impressive deep, dark colour; the wines have a powerful, balanced structure. The dense structures and the qualities of the tannins may be superior to those of the 96 and 90 vintage. The balance of the Grand Vin combines class, rigour, complexity and great finesse in the fruit.

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Surprisingly evolved bottle for 2000 with vegetal farmyard aromas mixed with classic pencil shave and violet flavors. Great concentration. Far from delivering its best yet. Cellar it!
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  • 90p
Good looking magnum size bottle, in an excellent condition and has by the neck level. Colour is ruby red, deep and youthful . On the nose it is intense, fresh, generous and charming. The taste is fresh, vigor, ripe, fragrant, with silky tannins, full-bodied, with good texture, well-integrated, complex and perfectly balanced structure. On the palate it is layered and has tropical fruits, perfumed, vanilla, blackberry, leather, cigar-box, cedar, mint and dried-fruit flavours. The finish is long, extensive, lingering, pure and vibrant. This wine is transparent, outstanding and fine. I paid around 1k-3k€ a bottle. Perfectly stored bottles are still very worthy and will last well for another 20-30 years and decant at least 2h before tasting. Good value for money.
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  • 98p
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Outstanding

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Good

Fake factory

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Glass time

2h

Drinking temperature

16
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