Pauillac de Château Latour - Pauillac 2019 (750ml)
Price: $105.00
6+ Price: $100.00 / btl
| Producer | Pauillac de Château Latour |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Sku | 9389 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 94 Points
This has chocolate cedar and walnuts as well as some currant aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied with some lovely fruit and juiciness. 55.8% cabernet sauvignon 38.8% merlot and 5.4% petit verdot. Attractive now but another year or two will make it even better.
The Wine Independent: 93 Points
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. Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Vinous: 93 Points
The 2019 Pauillac is a serious wine. Dark cherry plum gravel incense licorice and pomegranate are all dialed up in this wonderfully deep fleshy Pauillac. Deep and resonant with fine balance the 2019 captures all the natural radiance of the year. This is really quite stellar and delicious. A recent bottle of the 2009 reminded me how pleasurable the Latour Pauillac can be. (Drink between 2029-2036) (AG93) The 2019 Pauillac de Latour has a welcome strictness and focus on the nose a straight-down-the-line Pauillac with graphite and pencil shavings infusing the black fruit. The oak is neatly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied fresh and taut with pliant tannins and fine acidity. A graphite infused finish doesn't press down too hard on the accelerator. Not over-ambitious - that's its strength. Difficult to believe this is in fact the third wine! Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting. (Drink between 2025-2050) (NM 92)
Jane Anson: 93 Points
Easily the best Pauillac de Latour in recent years showing supple tannins at five years old textured and rippling with juice opening to show gourmet smoked plum and blueberry fruit. Has the graphite edge of the appellation waves of cocoa bean liqourice and smoked earth and the balance of 2019. The structure is already welcoming even if the fruit young and if you like your wines on the primary side you can get stuck in straight away and be very happy about it - this is a buy buy buy and a good upgrade from my initial En Primeur score. 44hl/h yield almost double that of 2018 which no doubt helps with the juicy character. 35% new oak with a part aged in larger-sized 300l barrels. 25% of production
Jeb Dunnuck: 92 Points
A rocking little Pauillac the 2019 Le Pauillac De Château Latour has ripe upfront aromatics of red and black currants smoke tobacco and spicy wood that carry to a medium-bodied supple layered nicely balanced wine that has enough tannins to evolve for 20 years or more.
Vinous Media: 92 Points
The 2019 Pauillac de Latour has a welcome strictness and focus on the nose, a straight-down-the-line Pauillac with graphite and pencil shavings infusing the black fruit. The oak is neatly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied, fresh and taut, with pliant tannins and fine acidity. A graphite infused finish doesn't press down too hard on the accelerator. Not over-ambitious - that's its strength. Difficult to believe this is in fact the third wine! Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting. (Drink between 2025-2050) (NM 92)
dWine Advocate: 91 Points
The 2019 Le Pauillac de Château Latour is a strong effort offering up inviting aromas of cassis and plums mingled with notions of cigar wrapper vanilla pod and creamy oak. Medium to full-bodied deep and layered with good concentration and powdery tannins it will offer a broad drinking window. Published: Apr 26 2024
Decanter: 90 Points
Evident ripeness to the fruits here, giving pretty high open berry aromatics even at this early stage. This is a frank and gourmet style of Pauillac de Latour and will be an early-to-medium term drinker with excellent potential for getting a taste of one of the few unquestionably good quality 3rd wines of Bordeaux.
The hot summer meant there were patches of water stress on the sandier soils outside of the main L'Enclos de Latour, leading to more 3rd wine than usual, and it accounts for 25% of production in 2019, from unusually high yields of 44.7hl/ha. 72IPT. (Drink between 2023-2034)
