“Don't miss it" – Antonio Galloni, Vinous
We are delighted to announce the latest releases direct from Château Latour’s impressive cellars. This is the fourth “new” vintage of Latour since the château’s bold decision to leave the en primeur system, and the start of an unrivalled sequence from this great vineyard.
Read More2015 feels like a turning point, a significant moment in Bordeaux’s history. While there have been great vintages and huge technical strides made since the Millennium, this is perhaps the year when Bordeaux entered a new era of modernity, harnessing the “solaire” growing seasons with a new aplomb, producing flamboyant yet graceful wines with superb textures and outstanding tannins. Latour, as one would expect is one of the greatest exponents, crafting a wine with ethereal qualities that dazzle and ignite the senses. As Antonio Galloni asserts, “the 2015 really does have it all”.
We can also offer 2017 Les Forts de Latour for the first time. As with many of the best 2017s, Les Forts is a triumph. It possesses that rare ability to be ravishing in youth while also having the potential to develop for many years. The more we taste the best 2017s, the more convinced we are of their merits.
Latour 2015
“A seamless, totally captivating wine, the 2015 Latour has no beginning and no end, it simply exists in its own little world of pure and total harmony. Nothing is out of place. Instead, the 2015 captivates both the intellectual and hedonistic senses with its remarkable aromatic depth and textural brilliance. Exotic in its ripeness, with tremendous persistence and dazzling balances, the 2015 really does have it all. The 2015 is 97.1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2.6% Merlot and 0.3% Petit Verdot. Don't miss it. 98+/100” – Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media
“Blended of 97.1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2.6% Merlot and 0.3% Petit Verdot, the deep garnet-purple colored 2015 Latour is exquisitely perfumed, displaying fragrant notes of crushed black cherries, raspberry preserves, cassis and black plums with nuances of roses, dark chocolate, garrigue, menthol and a waft of sandalwood. The medium-bodied palate beautifully struts its taut, toned, muscular fruit with a frame of very firm, smooth, rounded tannins and compelling freshness, finishing with alluring earth and mineral layers. At once intellectual and sexy, this truly evocative vintage brings to mind the Melanie Griffith line from “Working Girl," possessing a sultry “head for business and a bod for sin." 98/100” – Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Advocate
Les Forts de Latour 2017
“A blend of 65.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 0.8% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2017 Les Forts de Latour is deep garnet-purple in color and strides confidently out of the glass with classic notes of plum preserves, warm cassis and pencil shavings with nuances of mulberries, pencil lead, Indian spices and forest floor. Medium-bodied, the palate packs a lot of fruit into a very elegant, tightly knit palate, delivering expressive blackberry and spicy flavors with a firm frame of grainy tannins and bold freshness, finishing long with a peppery kick. 94/100” – Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Advocate
These wines are currently abroad and will be shipped later this year. Stocks are limited and will be allocated if over-subscribed. If you wish to place an order, please contact your account manager, or follow the links below.