2015 Chateau Latour Premier Cru Classe, Pauillac 1x75cl

2015 Chateau Latour Premier Cru Classe, Pauillac 1x75cl

$780.00 Excl. GST
$861.10 Incl. GST
IN BOND
RETAIL
COUNTRY
France
REGION
Bordeaux
VINTAGE
2015
PRODUCER
Chateau Latour
WINE TYPE
Red
AVAILABILITY
Future Arrival, 5 in stock, In Bond

Producer Profile

Area under vines: 47 hectares
Soils: clayey gravel, gravelly sand, marly clay
Average of the Vineyards : 50 years
Planting density: 10 000 vines/ha
Production: around 320,000 bottles a year
Ageing: around 2 years in 100% new barrels

Grape varieties:

  • Cabernet Sauvignon 75%
  • Merlot 20%
  • Cabernet Franc 2,5%
  • Petit Verdot 2,5%

The Chateau makes two other wines:

  • Les Forts de Latour :
    • Cabernet Sauvignon : 70%
    • Merlot : 30%

  • Le Pauillac de Chateau Latour

Learn more about Chateau Latour here

Tasting Notes

Vinous 96

The 2015 Latour was bottled in July 2017 and contains 13.04% alcohol. It is blessed with a refined and focused bouquet: perfumed blackberry and raspberry scents, iodine, pine and light pencil shaving aromas. It has dispensed with the subtle fig-like/exotic notes noticeable three years ago, arguably a little more conservative today. The palate is medium-bodied, with fine-grain tannins; harmonious and poised, clean and precise, understated with an irresistible silky texture. The 2015 does not possess a peacock s tail like a top-tier Latour. No, it prefers to remain cool, calm and collected for now. This sublime First Growth will cruise for many years. [Neal Martin, 06/03/2023]

Anticipated maturity: 2025-2055

JancisRobinson.com 16.5

54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot. Hot, dry June and July preceded very wet August and September, Pauillac being much wetter in mid September than, for example, Margaux, which diluted the grapes. Unsettled conditions for harvest increased the risk of rot. Merlot picked 15-21 September and Cabernet 28 September to 10 October. This was Latour’s first vintage when the vineyards were fully organic (2018 was the first to be certified organic in the cellar). There’s a real commitment here. Deep crimson. Ripe nose but cool and fresh on the palate. Still quite tough and unfriendly. Needs time! [26/02/2020]

Anticipated maturity: 2023-2032

Robert Parker 98

"Blended of 97.1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2.6% Merlot and 0.3% Petit Verdot, the deep garnet-purple colored 2015 Latour is exquisitely perfumed, displaying fragrant notes of crushed black cherries, raspberry preserves, cassis and black plums with nuances of roses, dark chocolate, garrigue, menthol and a waft of sandalwood. The medium-bodied palate beautifully struts its taut, toned, muscular fruit with a frame of very firm, smooth, rounded tannins and compelling freshness, finishing with alluring earth and mineral layers. At once intellectual and sexy, this truly evocative vintage brings to mind the Melanie Griffith line from a oeWorking Girl,"" possessing a sultry a oehead for business and a bod for sin.""" [Lisa Perrotti-Brown, 21/02/2018]

Anticipated maturity: 2024-2050

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