2017 Château Latour à Pomerol

Description

93+    Lisa Perrotti-Brown for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
Deep garnet-purple in color and composed of 100% Merlot, the 2017 Latour à Pomerol leaps from the glass with expressive scents of baked plums, warm black cherries and boysenberries with wafts of fallen leaves, bouquet garni and fertile loam. Medium-bodied, the palate delivers mouth-coating, muscular black fruits with a firm backbone of rounded tannins and a long, minerally finish.

93    James Suckling
“Cedar and mulberry, as well as red-cherry and red-plum aromas here. Stone undertones. This has a very plush, fluid feel with ample tannins, delivered in a smooth, silky and fleshy mode. Bright, red-plum flavors carry long and even. So balanced. Drink or hold.” (January 2020)

93    James Molesworth for Wine Spectator
“Inviting, with incense and warm plum aromas leading the way, followed by velvet-textured blackberry and fig fruit flavors. Ganache, tobacco and warm earth notes fill in through the finish, melding nicely with the fruit. Best from 2022 through 2038. Tasted twice, with consistent notes.” (March 2020)