Latour Half 2011
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Latour Half 2011
HED11578
37.5 cl
13%
£300.00
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Latour 2011 is a First Growth Pauillac blended with 84.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, resulting in a wine of significant structural density and a classic profile of cassis, graphite and cedar. While the year lacked the heat of 2009 or 2010, the wine displays a focused, linear intensity and high-quality tannins that have begun to soften. This half-bottle format is ideal for observing the development of this chiselled and aristocratic red, which remains one of the most successful wines of the vintage.
95 Vinous
The 2011 Latour is well-defined on the nose with blackberry, bilberry, cedar, hoisin and a touch of mint. There is impressive intensity here, regal and convincing. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannins. There is a solid backbone to this wine, plenty of freshness, quite powerful towards the finish with superb persistence. Wonderful. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting.Neal Martin1st April 2022
18 Jancis Robinson
84.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 0.5% Petit Verdot. Elderberry juice in colour. Black core. Reticent cassis perfume, not very forthcoming. Intense, deep, dry and long. Very refined and it feels as if it is all texture at the moment, no spare flesh but it’s more a question of no fat not leanness. It opens up to very pure cassis fruit but remains restrained. A slight dustiness increases the freshness. Dry purity and refinement. It`s not even reined in, the constraint is built in. `Super-bon élégant`, opines Frédéric Engerer in an isolated burst of enthusiasm, the tannins remind him of those in 2000. Classical lines. Absolutely no generosity but Engerer reckons it will take on flesh. Very very long. (JH)
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Chateau Latour
A Towering First Growth
Situated on the Bordeaux's Left Bank in the appellation of Pauillac, this superb First Growth is produced from the estate's 92ha of vines, spread across 138 plots, (47 hectares of which are located in renowned 'L'Enclos'). The clay and gravel soils give superbly concentrated, textural Cabernet Sauvignon dominant reds, with Merlot and smaller percentages of Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc making up the blend.
The estate also produces two further celebrated reds, Les Forts de Latour and Pauillac de Latour. Certified organic since 2018, biodynamic techniques are also used in the vineyard.
