2015 Château Latour Grand Vin

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 97.8 points

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  4/26/2024 - csimm wrote: 98 Points

  Incredible polish and poise here, with a linear profile that is just starting to give in the fruit department. This presents as a fairly serious wine, and one that will need more than a handful of years to fully come together. That said, the quality is undeniable, and likely one of my top favorites from the Left Bank (I’m usually more a Right Bank fella most of the time). It is fresh and a little haunting at the same time. An array of black, purple, and red fruit form a primary skirmish line in front of a significant wall of mineral and spice notes. Finishes with crazy exactitude.
  
  The 2015 Latour strikes a lovely balance between old world strictness and new world expansion. Though this bottle plays coy with its fruit, it isn’t shy about letting you know instantly how well put together it is. I’m not the brightest bulb, so it’s not always great when a wine can outsmart you. But in this case, I’ll settle for letting the Latour beat me on the LSAT for now. A special thanks to good friend and CT’r Cristal2000 for carting this along on his trip to share. Truly top shelf stuff. Hold for another 5+ years minimum (10+ ideally).

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  4/13/2024 - bsumoba Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Super fun to have. 1st growth quality for sure. Very polished, complex and super good finish. Lots of energy in this wine. I’m glad that I know someone with more bottles…

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  4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Clean and fresh raspberries and exciting cranberries, clean new oak, red and purple flowers, clean forest floor with a gentle and exciting spiced tree bark. So aromatic on the nose here with fruits and flowers while maintaining nice elegance.
  
  Palate: Clean all around. So well polished with seamless blending of fruits, minerals, earth and clean oak. A precise strike of light graphite and minerals that lingers nicely in the mid palate and onto the finish, providing a nice savoriness. The crazy part is the build up of the energy as it finishes. Awesome gains on the finish here.. it's like it ramps up the more you keep tasting.
  
  My first Lafleur - I mean Latour - ever and boy, it did not disappoint.

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  4/13/2024 - MN Wine Junkie Likes this wine: 97 Points

  This amazing bottle was a special treat provided by Cristal2000 at a recent get-together at Chateau Simms. All I can say is the bottle was amazing! This bottle would turn those who love well aged Bordeaux to the dark side...even the oldest palates would succumb to this Siren's song. With a perfumed nose proudly displaying a bouquet of red and black fruit and a palate that lures you in like the pied piper with gorgeous fruit with notes of graphite, tar and shades of earth. Love this! 97+ easily!

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  3/26/2024 - Spikemaster Likes this wine: 96 Points

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