Château Latour 2019 (1 stks original trækasse)

Jeb Dunnuck
Classic Pauillac darker currants, smoky tobacco, spicy wood, damp earth, and graphite all define the 2019 Château Latour, a ripe and approachable Latour that has more accessibility than many vintages while still possessing quintessential Latour character and depth. Blended from 92.5% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Merlot and aged 18 months in new French oak, it's medium to full-bodied with a round, layered mouthfeel, beautiful, almost velvety tannins, and a tremendous finish. I'd happily drink a bottle today (don't tell anyone), yet it's going to benefit from 5-7 years of bottle age and keep for 50 years or more in fine form. Drink 2031-2081.

Decanter
Dark blackcurrants with smokey tobacco, liquorice and slate. Cool straight away, fresh but so perfectly mouthfilling, not sweet like 2020, this is more cooling and fresh, blue fruit, black cherry, fleshy like fruit skin texture. Dark, I love the 2019s because they're more controlled and serious but so nuanced. To me this is how a great Pauillac can taste, serious, deep, classic Cabernet markers, lots of minerality in the flint and stoney aspects, strong tannins and a powerful, muscular structure with minty sides. An amazing Pauillac, this is really my style. Still so full of concentration and life, this will last forever.

Robert Parker
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.

Château Latour skaber nogle af de største og mest ekstravagante Bordeaux-vine. Slottet har aner tilbage til 1300-tallet, da det oprindelige tårn, som slottet er opkaldt efter, blev bygget på ejendommen af Gaucelme de Castillon under hundredårskrigen.

Den gamle Pauillac ejendom er blandt de fire i Medoc, som blev rangeret i den øverste Premier Cru Classé, da Napoleon og sine embedsmænd udarbejdede en klassificering op til verdensudstillingen i 1855. Siden 1993 har slottet været ejet af den franske milliardær François Pinault, som opkøbte vinslottet for ikke mindre end 890 millioner kroner.

Château Latour omkranses af 78 hektar vinmarker som har et ekstraordinært terroir bestående af dyb grus og ler, der er dækket af relativt store afrundede sten, som holder på varmen længe efter solen, er forsvundet. Vinmarkerne er beplantet med ca. 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot og 2% Cabernet Franc og Petit Verdot.

 I nyere tid er Château Latours team begyndt at reflektere mere over metoder for vindyrkningen, og balancen mellem vinen, jorden og miljøet. Således er der sket et opgør med efterkrigstidens hang til tåger af tvivlsomme sprøjtemidler mod ukrudt, skadedyr og plantesygdomme. Siden 2015 er hele Château Latour-vingården blevet økologisk dyrket, og heste hjælper med pløjningen og den naturlige gødning.