In Bond Fine Wine. 2014 Château Latour Latour (Ex Chateau), Pauillac, Bordeaux, France. First Growth • Red Bordeaux in 3x75cl. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Chateau Latour needs little introduction. This First Growth is home to one of the world's finest and most famous terroirs. Chateau Latour famously withdrew from the en Primeur system in 2012 in favour of releasing wines onto the market only when deemed ready by the Chateau. One of the world's great vineyards, the team under Frederic Engerer have upheld the highest standards of quality for two decades.
Neal Martin (NM) — 96/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 31/03/2017 · Drink 2025-2055
The 2014 Latour, which was bottled in July 2016, but of course will not be released for several years depending upon subsequent vintages, has a very pure, tightly-wound bouquet with blackberry fruit infused with black olive and graphite, just as it was out of barrel during en primeur. After several minutes, it is joined by subtle hints of pressed violets. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tan…
Jane Anson (JA) — 96/100 · JaneAnson.com, 2024-02-01 · Drink 2024-2045
Gunsmoke, grilled cassis, slate, liqourice bud, lavender, espresso, muscular and still very young, plenty of coiled power here, autumnal fruit that is ripe but not over-exuberant. A ton of appellation typicity, Latour always manages to deliver concentration and focus, and one year on from my last tasting (at the time of the wine's first release) this hovers on the edge of opening up but has many…
William Kelley (WK) — 97/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 2022-03-15 · Drink 2028-2065
The 2014 Latour is one of the very finest wines of a vintage that favored the northern Médoc. Mingling aromas of wild berries and cassis with hints of cigar wrapper, loamy soil, black truffles and classy new oak, it’s full-bodied, rich and concentrated, its broad attack segueing into a deep, tightly wound mid-palate that’s framed by powdery, chalky tannins and bright acids, concluding with a long…