2010 Latour A Pomerol Bordeaux Red

2010 Latour A Pomerol

96 JS

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Gorgeous nose with strawberries, toasted hazelnuts and milk chocolate. Black currant, sweet licorice and lots of flowers. Great fruit and full body on the palate with a structure that just keeps adding layers of fruit and minerals. Very silky tannins and wonderful intense finish. It's about great harmony in this wine. Best Latour a Pomerol in years. Drink from 2017. James Suckling

James Suckling | 96 JS

Dark and loamy, with fig bread and ganache out front, followed by steeped fig, pastis-soaked plum and Black Forest cake notes, all layered and backed by a long, licorice and graphite-filled finish. Offers more than enough fruit and acidity to soak up the abundant toast. For fans of the big style. Best from 2015 through 2030. 1,800 cases made.

Wine Spectator | 95 WS

(Château Latour à Pomerol) The 2010 Château Latour à Pomerol is one of the unequivocal great wines on the Right Bank this year and is likely to be one of the best vintages at this estate in several decades. The bouquet is deep, pure and absolutely classic, as it soars from the glass in a blaze of plums, black cherries, dark chocolate, a bit of nuttiness, woodsmoke, soil tones and a deft touch of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, suave and refreshingly light on its feet for the vintage, with a sappy core of fruit, ripe, fine-grained tannins and excellent length and grip on the velvety and well-balanced finish. Really a lovely vintage for Château Latour à Pomerol, the 2010 reminds me quite a bit of the 1982 at this estate. (Drink between 2017-2050)

John Gilman | 93 JG

Elegant loamy soil notes intermixed with sweet cherries as well as hints of underbrush, mocha and mulberry jump from the glass of this pure, medium to full-bodied, dense wine, which possesses good glycerin, flesh and richness. It should drink nicely for up to 15 years.

Robert Parker | 92 RP

Solidly based on its firm tannins, this is an impressive wine. Acidity and blackberry fruits are sewn together by the tannic structure. There is a touch of minerality as well, lending the wine to the promise of long-term aging.

Wine Enthusiast | 92 WE

Good deep red-ruby. Very ripe but restrained aromas of currant and chocolate. A juicy, seamless midweight with enticing sweetness to its flavors of black raspberry, loam and caramel. Finishes with a firm tannic spine and excellent length. A bit youthfully taut today, this wine should show more flesh and finishing sweetness with five or six years in the bottle.

Vinous Media | 91 VM

Type of Wine	Bordeaux Red : Picture in your mind a combination of cedar, lead pencil, blackcurrant, plum and mineral aromatics, and texture that caresses your palate like a playful lover. The experience is thrilling from the first whiff to the final seconds of a tannic, generous finish - that is what you'll get from a Bordeaux Red
Varietal	Bordeaux Blend
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