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2009 Latour, Pauillac

2009 Latour, Pauillac

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Int'l Wine Review

Review Date: 09/2022
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The 2009 Château Latour is a simply magical wine and a serious contender for Top Wine from this spectacular vintage. It is showing beautifully at this stage, as it instantly begins to impress with its seductive aromas of fresh ripe blackberries and dark currants that are woven together with exotic spices, tobacco, graphite, gravelly soil and espresso nuances which all take shape in the glass. On the palate this is just as stunning, as it displays a gorgeous full body that is impeccably polished, with remarkable overall structure and balance. It continues impress as it displays remarkable focus and precision all they way through long, velvety finish. Pure and sophisticated, this wine has it all and although it is showing beautiful now, it should continue to evolve and cruise in the cellar for at least another two decades. The 2009 is without question an all-time great vintage from the iconic Chateau. (JD)

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Jane Anson

Review Date: 08/2024
Unmistakable Latour in an exceptional vintage, so you should expect a muscular, sculpted and confident wine that is bursting with Pauillac character, showcasing the brilliance of this clay-gravel location overlooking the Gironde Estuary. Still just emerging from its primary stage but just about ready to drink if you give it long enough in a carafe - although it will be even better with another decade. Think blackberry, bilberry, cassis, charcoal, slate, sage, incense, cigar box, grilled cumin and a ton of black chocolate shavings. 100% new oak for ageing, Penelope Godefroy vineyard director, Frederic Engerer director.

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Jeb Dunnuck

Review Date: 05/2022
An incredible wine in every way, the 2009 Château Latour displays the ripe, sexy style of the vintage while still offering classic Latour power, density, and regalness. Currants, spicy wood, smoked tobacco, graphite, and ample minerality all define the bouquet, and it's full-bodied, with incredible density, perfectly integrated, ripe, polished tannins, and a finish that leaves no doubt about the insane quality of this wine. Based on 91.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.7% Merlot, and checking in at 13.7% alcohol, it's drinking brilliantly today given its incredible texture and balance, and I suspect it has another 50-60 years of prime drinking. This is as good a Bordeaux as I've had and is as good as wine gets.

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James Suckling

Review Date: 03/2019
Dark and chocolatey with a lot of richness, but also a cool herbal freshness this is a very impressive Medoc wine that's already delicious to drink. Very long, surprisingly supple finish for this château. A perfect wine.
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Notes

100 points Robert Parker for Wine Advocate: "A blend of 91.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.7% Merlot with just under 14% natural alcohol, the 2009 Latour is basically a clone of the super 2003, only more structured and potentially more massive and long lived. An elixir of momentous proportions, it boasts a dense purple color as well as an extraordinarily flamboyant bouquet of black fruits, graphite, crushed rocks, subtle oak and a notion of wet steel. It hits the palate with a thundering concoction of thick, juicy blue and black fruits, lead pencil shavings and a chalky minerality. Full-bodied, but very fresh with a finish that lasts over a minute, this is one of the most remarkable young wines I have ever tasted. Will it last one-hundred years? No doubt about it. Can it be drunk in a decade? For sure." (12/2011)

Product Details

Origin: Pauillac, Bordeaux, France

Type/Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon and Blends

SKU: #1188148