Pouring a youthful red hue, the 2023 Pinot Noir Roserock is elegant and mineral-toned, with notes of cinnamon, cranberries, crushed flowers, and dusty earth. The palate has lovely, salty freshness, with medium body, and it has mouthwatering acidity, ripe,...
Bottled very late (November, 1997), the 1995 has continued to flesh out, developing into one of the great classics made under the Mentzelopoulos regime. The color is opaque ruby/purple. The nose offers aromas of licorice and sweet smoky new oak intermixed...
Spectator Top 100 wine #11
This is so decadent and exciting on the nose, with very ripe fruit, tobacco, meat and cedar. Full-bodied, offering amazing raspberry fruit in the core of the palate. Ultra-polished, velvety tannins wonderfully coat every inch of your palate. This will age...
A hot, dry August produced very concentrated grapes in 1996. However, it turned a bit rainy in mid-September through early October, making the vintage less consistent on the Right Bank and in Graves. But as the weather turned glorious from early October o...
2000 Latour is a contender for wine of the vintage, a majestic First Growth flirting with perfection. The nose is backward and demands coaxing from the glass, eventually revealing intense black fruit, cedar, graphite and very subtle Japanese nori aromas. ...
A seamless, totally captivating wine, the 2015 Latour has no beginning and no end, it simply exists in its own little world of pure and total harmony. Nothing is out of place. Instead, the 2015 captivates both the intellectual and hedonistic senses wit...
The 2016 Latour is magnicent. Regal and nuanced, with tons of energy, the 2016 is immediately captivating. The bouquet announces an important wine, a feeling that builds through the wine's mid-palate. There's a real feeling of exuberance in 2016, and y...