Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings

2000 Château Latour

1. Deep in color, it looked like a wine half its age.The nose took effort to wake up, before scents of tobacco, coffee bean, licorice, earth, blackberry, truffle, cigar box and wet earth made their presence known. On the palate, the wine is rich, deep, full bodied and offers a beautiful sense of purity of fruit, supple textures and a long, rich, expansive finish. If you can wait, I'd give it another 15 years, if you need to see what it's about today, give this stunning wine a few hours of air. While this is shockingly expensive, if you have the money, it will be a future legendary vintage of Chateau Latour.

   99 points - Tasted Mar 27, 2013

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2. On rare occasions, the best wines leave you speechless. Words are a waste of time. It quickly becomes obvious that your time is better spent enjoying the experience of the wine you are drinking. That is exactly what happened with the 2000 Chateau Latour! With an intense perfume filled with earth, cedar chest, stone, creme de cassis, cherry pipe tobacco, licorice, blackberries, Asian spice and lead pencil, the wine got off to a good start and kept on going! In the mouth, countless layers of voluptuous, pure, dark fruits melted over your palate. The concentrated, perfectly constructed, seamless finish was packed with pure, dark fruits. Everything was in harmony. The wine remained on your palate for at least 60 seconds! One of the unique characteristics all great wines share is, they show beautifully, even when they are young. While incredibly expensive, if you have the money, or a few bottles packed away in your cellar, this is a remarkable Bordeaux wine to mark time with.

   100 points - Tasted Sep 2, 2011

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3. This was filled with cassis, minerals, toasty oak, tobacco, spice and ample layers of ripe black fruits. Rich, concentrated and filled with depth, the wine offers beautiful purity. Everything is in balance while the wine fills your palate with flavor. The long finish is round and complex. With more bottle age, this will only get better.

   99 points - Tasted Mar 5, 2010

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