Frankrike

Cabernet Sauvignon

Merlot

Cabernet Franc

Petit Verdot

Ch. Latour

Le Pauillac de Chateau Latour Pauillac

Bordeaux

Pauillac

Sappy and fresh, with a vivid and expressive quality to the blueberry fruit alongside savoury cassis bud. This has plenty of lift, good depth through the mid palate, and retains the graphite kiss and tightly muscular tannins that give appellation signature without needing to wait to being drinking. I would suggest another year in bottle, then a good long carafe. This is classic, concentrated, balanced, a buy. 32hl/h yield, 23.5% of Latour's overall production in the vintage. Hélène Genin technical director.

Inside Bordeaux

The 2020 Le Pauillac de Chateau Latour is a blend of 53% Merlot, 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 4% Petit Verdot. Deep garnet-purple in color, it needs some coaxing to reveal delicate notes of redcurrants, wild blueberries, and crushed plums, plus hints of bay leaves, tree bark, and cracked black pepper. The medium-bodied palate is bright, lively, and energetic, with a grainy texture and minerally finish.

by Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW

Deep garnet-purple colored. Skips out of the glass with vibrant notes of black cherries and black raspberries, followed by hints of graphite, rose bud tea, and wild sage. The light-bodied palate is bright and refreshing with fine-grained tannins and a lively line, finishing with a real skip in its step.

Love the inky plum and juicy slate character, with a powerful tannic frame and confident grip on the bright raspberry, redcurrant and blueberry fruits. Another sign of how well this appellation has performed in 2023, a very different character to the previous vintage, prettier, with more air and juice in the architecture, will be ready to drink earlier. Yields 40hl/h, harvest September 7 to October 2.

Rosebuds and peony, high floral aromatics on the opening, then hits up with a kick of spice, classic cloves, anis and turmeric that you find often in Pauillac in 2022, here well balanced by berry fruits and fresh acidities. 35% new oak, harvest September 6 to 24. Hélène Génin director.

These are the kind of vintages when the skill found in winemaking teams at estates like Latour really pays off. This is lighter than most vintages of Pauillac de Latour, reflective of a vintage where the sugars stubbornly refused to rise, meaning the texture and weight of the palate is notably more sculpted, but this has pretty rosestem and raspberry puree notes, and gentle tannins that build through the palate. Some frost impast, with the sandier plots not making it into any of the wines in the range. No chaptilisation.

A blend of 55.8% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38.8% Merlot, and 5.4% Petit Verdot, Le Pauillac de Chateau Latour 2019 is medium to deep garnet-purple in color. It comes bounding out of the glass with exuberant notes of black cherries, blackcurrant jelly, and menthol, plus suggestions of garrigue, candied violets, and dark chocolate. The full-bodied palate is plush and oh-so-juicy, with a lively line to balance, and a fantastically intense, yet well-poised, finish. Just starting to open-out and reveal its decadent core, this is the best Pauillac de Chateau Latour since the fabulous 2016, albeit even more concentrated and powerful—a fitting reflection of Latour, if you will.

This is a Pauillac de Latour with clear spice and kick, with an exuberant texture from alcohol that is higher than usual after the hottest summer since 2003, alongside abundant raspberry, blueberry and black cherry fruit, spiced sandalwood and concentrated mint. 24hl/ha yield after mildew, with 21% of production going into this wine, 5.7% press wine. First year of organic certification, with biodynamic farming fully practised. Hélène Genin technical director, harvest September 17 to October 11.

Pauliac er 3. vinen til det legendariske vestbank-slottet Latour. Vinen er mørk rubinrød i farge og innehar en mild duft av solbær. Smaken er fruktig og elegant. Fullstendig fløyelsmyk. Kompleks men mild som en norsk sommerbris.  En nydelig Bordeaux med lang ettersmak, noe som gjør meg like salig som en prest under årets påskemesse. Luftet i 2 timer før servering. 93 poeng.

Amatør

Middels rød farge. Duft og smak av solbær, ceder og røde bær. Flott konsentrert vin med medium pluss syrlighet og modne tanniner.

Sommelier

Noe innesluttet rett etter åpning, men kom seg veldig etter to timer hvile på karaffel. Fruktig og juicy. Klassisk solbær uten at det blir helt fruktfest. Tydelige, men veldig pene tanniner. Får ståkarakter på lengden. Kanskje litt skuffet med det samme, men til biff så kom den til sin rett. Ingen skam i å åpne denne nå, men tror nok jeg foretrekker min bordeaux med litt mer lagring. 

Wow, og trippel wow. Nesten sort på farve. Umiddelbar solbærduft, men denne fortok seg. Dekantert og luftet på verandaen i halvannen time. Begynte så smått å hilse på. Etter tre timer kom den som en rakett opp av glasset. Ingen tegn på høy alder, perfekt balanse, lukter og smaker som en fullblods West-Bank. Evig ettersmak. Perfekt moden nå dersom man gir den tre timer i karaffel. Tenk at man kunne kjøpe slikt for under tusenlappen. Glad jeg har en flaske til…

Kategori	Rødvin
Polnummer
Produsent	Ch. Latour
Årgang	2020
Land	Frankrike, Bordeaux, Pauillac
Flaskestørrelse	75 cl

Alkoholnivå	13.5 %
Syre	5,3 %
Sukker	< 3 g/l

Innpakning	Glass
Korktype
Utvalg	Tilleggsutvalget
Grossist	Lars Søreide AS
Transportør	Lars Søreide AS