Ron Siegel

9.3

Red & black fruits, cassis, leather, graphite, spice box & tobacco notes. — 18 days ago

Tom Garland

9.7

1 hour decant (decent chunky/fine sedimen). A thrilling tawny ruby red color with some bricking. On the nose: beautiful notes of plum, cigar box, old leather, musty planting soil, just a touch of barnyard funk, and pine cones...could sniff this all night. Taste: soft, smooth, creamy, layered wine with woody fruit, red currants, tobacco, leather, cedar, and a slightly bitter coffee long finish. YUM! The complete package!! — a month ago

with Brenda

Matt Krych

8.9

Very sweet, but casual drinking wine — 4 months ago

Andrew Liguori

9.3

Dense black currant and creme de cassis. Faint cigar box, dried soil, and graphite. Powdery tannins with very smooth consistency. Hour decant. Christmas steak with charred leek and anchovy butter. — 5 months ago

Doug Powers

9.3

Cigar box, pencil lead, also some lovely spicy redfruit aromas, still pretty structured, but showing a deep core of lovely dried redfruits, some sweet fruit notes in the long, lingering finish, very fine LLC!! — 11 days ago

with Jim

Doug Powers

9.4

Cassis, blackcurrants, cigar box in this lovely, still youthful Bordeaux, really nice balance, seems very fresh still, long finish, terrific bottle!! — 3 months ago

with Jim

Mike Mayer

9.1

Thought I’d give this bottle a try after sitting on it for a number of years. Deep garnet color. Cigar box, wild berries, espresso and leather on the nose. Tastes of red plums, tart cherries, dark chocolate and a hint of of licorice. Tannins are still a little rustic and acidity is perfect. I don’t know if this wine improves much more with age. While it paired great with a steak tonight, it is not a wine I would probably want to just sip. — 4 months ago

Tom Garland

9.3

2 hour decant(decent fine/chunky sediment). A majestic purplish dark magenta color. On the nose: bursting from the glass are notes of red and black fruit, charred wood, milk chocolate, some mint, touch of cigar box. Taste: smooth, delicate, elegant wine with red berries/plum, leather, gravel, herbaceous, mocha, and a spiced tobacco medium plus finish. YUM! Drinks well with the decant, but no hurry, time to go. — 15 days ago

with Brenda

Andrew Cullimore

9.6

Medium deep ruby core , medium wide ruby garnet rim . Quite slow and fat tears. Quite exotic nose , slightly high toned, lots of ripe spicy blackcurrant , dark cherry , blackberry and underneath a grafite and earthy note , marine scents also . On the palate round, ripe and sweet dark fruits, blackcurrant , blackberry and dark cherry , touches of grafite and cigar box. Surprisingly good , even refreshing acidity , ripe ample tannins; there is great intensity here. Balanced alcohol even though it is quite decadent and rich, lots of glycerin . Very long and succulent but balanced finish with touches of mineral and tobacco. The plumpness and exoticism does come across as pretty atypical for Latour , though it is a real success for the vintage and an undeniably enjoyable wine. Drinking ok now , with a decant of an hour or two but really did improve over the 5 hours we had it open. Will obviously last and improve over the next 20 years and I’m sure go further still . — 3 months ago

Mike Saviage

9.6

Taken to Merrimans in Waimea on the Big Island. Darkish tawny, not quite opaque. Notes of black cherry, tobacco leaf, cedar, plums, cigar box and some spice. Super silky. Paired perfectly with my ribeye. The waiter said it best, “Oooh… Yummy!” — 5 months ago