2002 Château Latour Grand Vin

Community Tasting Notes (89) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  4/7/2024 - drjb Likes this wine: 95 Points

  At Home Dinner. This wine opened very well with a deep crimson red colour and an immediate nose of blackcurrants, garnet plums, tobacco, walnuts and a touch of mint. The palate is beautifully layered with no sense of attenuation or green characters but rather a lovely transparency in addition to rich fruit characters leading into a very poised tannin structure that persists with a nice touch of raspberry on the back palate. A lovely bottle of Latour.

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  3/23/2024 - Somm David T wrote: 95 Points

  This is still taut with dry, meaty tannins. The first time you should open this Grand Vin. Decanted four and a half hours. It has another 20 plus years of good drinking ahead.
  
  Bramble, dry blackberries, black plum, black raspberries, dry, dark cherries. Dry twig, dry crushed rocks, lead pencil for days, sandstone/limestone, dark, rich, earth with dry leaves, cigar box, ash, leathery, dark spice, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon sticks and vanillin, slightly, moist, volcanic clay, dry & withering flowers that are dark, red and violets framed in lavender, perfect round acidity, structured, well tensioned, overly balanced to earth and smartly polished finish that lands on earth & spice.
  
  My next 02 should be opened in another 8-10 years and will still drink well in another 20 years properly stored.
  
  Paired with AB Brothers Ribcap, crispy baked potato & cooked carrots.
  
  The 07 Turnbull Napa almost seemed grape juice like after the 82 Les Forts & 02 Latour.

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  1/24/2024 - etyc Likes this wine:

  Very nice. Liked it. Detail notes may yet follow...

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  12/1/2023 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:

  50th Birthday Bash: 10 Vintage Vertical of Latour: I was so looking forward to tasting this vintage as it has been regarded as the wine of the vintage for the average 2002 vintage. However, this vintage was the one bottle that was not like the other nine vintages that came before it tonight. What it had going against it was where it fell in the order of the line-up (palate fatigue) and its young age. All I can remember is that it was uber concentrated and wonderful, but less evolved in comparison. Bottom line? This is a great bottle of wine and don't open it for another 10 years minimum.

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  3/20/2023 - abhi.saw1987@gmail.com wrote: flawed

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