Chateau Latour

Pauillac 2005

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  Vintage 2005
  98 points Wine Advocate MW

Tasted 2019 - 2005 was a very dry, warm and sunny vintage, causing vine stress in some areas of Bordeaux. Harvested from September 26 to October 6, the tannin/IPT levels were very high this year. The wine was relatively closed and broody, but today the wine is just starting to reveal its personality—and what a stunner! Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, it opens with provocative floral scents of roses and violets over a core of fresh blackcurrants, chocolate-covered cherries and black raspberries with hints of fertile loam, unsmoked cigars and black tea. Medium to full-bodied, firm, grainy and packed with muscular fruit, it has an epically long, savory finish sparked by floral notes

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  Vintage 2005
  100 points MW

This is a deep brooding vigorous wine with powerful black olive, blackcurrant and bitumen aromas. The palate is deeply concentrated and muscular with inky, blackcurrant and spice flavours, tightly-knit, grainy tannins and underlying savoury, cedary oak. The wine finishes chocolatey firm with long minerally notes. Another wine of the vintage contender, this is classic Latour with a profound sense of place and marvellous cellaring potential.