Chateau Latour 2019 1er Grand Cru Classe Paulliac

Country: France Region: Bordeaux, Pauillac

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot Blend

Vintage: 2019 Colour: Red Style: Dry

Producer: Chateau Latour - In Stock, Available Now. 

Description:
Created in around 1680, Château Latour is one of the oldest vineyards in the Médoc. There is a central plot known as the ¿Enclos¿ which consists of 47 hectares of old vines that are maintained with extreme care, as they are the ones that are used to make the grand vin. Another 18 hectares of external plots, consisting of vines that are less than ten years-old and potentially declassified plots are used to produce the property's second wine, Les Forts de Latour. 
Latour's wines show exemplary consistency, whatever the quality of the vintage. Firm, tannic and concentrated in their youth, they require long cellaring to reveal the full depth of their power and extraordinary richness. When perfectly mature, the wine has an incredible bouquet of blackcurrants, hazelnuts and leather. A monumental wine.

Made all the more exciting as it’s from a fantastic Bordeaux vintage and is armed with 100-point scores, this 2019 Chateau Latour is set to follow last year’s 2016 and be an instant sell-out. Also being released is a superb vintage of the Forts de Latour, the 2020. 

2019 was an excellent vintage for Bordeaux and was responsible for wines of grace, charm and real sophistication. As one of the finest winemaking properties on the planet, Latour was well placed to take advantage and crafted a monumental Grand Vin that was among the elite wines of the year. 

Two 100-Point Scores: 
Scores and notes from critics are below and show this 2019 to be a very strong vintage for Latour.

Lisa Perrotti-Brown and Jeb Dunnuck both award it a perfect 100 points, with the former calling it “exquisitely constructed with a myriad of very fine layers, supported by ripe, grainy tannins and beautiful tension” and the latter, “another perfect wine in the vintage and is as prodigious as they come.”

2019 Chateau Latour
100 points Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Composed of 92.5% Cabernet Sauvignon and 7.5% Merlot, the 2019 Latour is deep garnet-purple in color. It comes barreling out of the glass with powerful notes of blackcurrant jelly, blackberry pie, and plum preserves, followed by suggestions of pencil shavings, cast-iron pan, and charcoal. The medium to full-bodied palate is exquisitely constructed with a myriad of very fine layers, supported by ripe, grainy tannins and beautiful tension, finishing epically long and mineral-laced. It’s still very tightly wound and will require at least 5 to 7 more years in cellar, then should age gracefully for a good 50-years+. (2023) www.thewineindependent.com Drink 2027-2077

100 points Jeb Dunnuck

Looking at the Grand Vin, the 2019 Château Latour is another perfect wine in the vintage and is as prodigious as they come. Revealing a deep purple hue, it displays a powerful and complex array of pure Pauillac cassis-like fruit as well as lead pencil, graphite, chalky minerality, truffle, and espresso and shows the vintage’s more elegant style perfectly, with nothing out of place. It is medium to full-bodied, with ripe, sweet tannins, but it still has that classic Latour regalness, concentration, structure, and class, with just a hint of its normal youthful austerity. This flawless balanced, structured, insanely good Latour will be drinkable in just 7-8 years but evolve for 40-50 years in cold cellars. Hats off to the team of technical director Hélène Génin and CEO Frédéric Engerer. (2022) www.jebdunnuck.com 

99+ points William Kelley
The 2019 Latour is a profound wine in the making, and it will surely emerge as one of the most long-lived wines of the vintage, as well as one of the greatest. Unwinding in the glass with scents of rich cassis fruit, English walnuts, cigar wrapper, black truffle, loamy soil and violets, it’s full-bodied, layered and muscular, with huge depth at the core, ripe tannins and lively acids, concluding with a long, seemingly interminable finish. Checking in at 14.1% alcohol, this prodigious Latour will require two decades to hit its stride, but it will be more than worth the wait.