2009 Château Latour à Pomerol

Community Tasting Notes (40) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  3/16/2024 - Winer1956 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very grateful for the tasting notes of Randyjc and Schoonbeke. I purchased this wine as a future and have properly stored it since delivery. Was decanted and served with a ribeye dinner. Our notes were a pleasant but shy nose transitioning seamlessly to mid-weight cassis and black fruit palate flavors and a long finish. About 1/3 of the bottle was saved, recorked, and refrigerated overnight. The next day it was a different wine — massive weight on the palate and less structure. The “next day” wine certainly had much more “wow” factor. I have several bottles left in the case and plan to try the next one in about 3 years.

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  2/15/2024 - swade wrote: 92 Points

  This hasn't moved in two years. Purple color. Shy aromas. Dark fruit and earth. Still seems shut. Polished like glass, but not generous or giving anything yet. Everything seems to be here and in place, but I'd guess it needs another 3-5 years. It was good. Enjoyable even, but not to its potential yet I expect. 92 on potential.

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  7/4/2023 - chanukha Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A little soft but maybe '09 merlots are kind of like that at this stage

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  2/27/2023 - randyjc wrote: 92 Points

  Old World nose of damp earth and wood. Dark plum. Menthol. Tasted over 3 days and it just keeps going - definitely in need of lengthy decant as it’s showing on days 2 and 3 were exceptional. A band of spicy red fruit - strangely, more like raspberry than anything else I can identify. The Old World nose doesn’t carry forward on the palate as much - I think a few more years and it will. Lengthy finish with a final top note of mentholated plum. Engaging wine.

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  6/16/2022 - schoonbeke wrote: 93 Points

  Decanted at 11:00 am for dinner at 8:00 pm. The wine tasted quite good and was adequately integrated. Very enjoyable with a delicious dinner of fresh peas from our garden, mashed potatoes and rib-in ribeye steak. Sipping a bit after dinner (8:30) there was too much tannin. It is still a young wine that will improve a lot with substantial additional cellaring.

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