Full medium ruby. Wonderfully sweet, rich aromas of cassis, minerals and bitter chocolate. A huge wine with almost painful intensity; solid as a rock and at the same time utterly sensual and creamy, with great inner-mouth complexity and depth of flavor and a complete absence of rough edges. "Almost too easy today," says Engerer. Sweet notes of roasted nuts and chocolate add to the wine's early appeal. A powerful, hugely rich Latour with a great building finish and perfectly suave tannins. This wa...

1er Cru Classe. In all truth, the quality clearly inherent in 2000 Bordeaux makes it difficult to chose a "wine of the vintage", but the urge is always there and, when pushed for such a choice, we comfortably answer Latour. First in terms of fruity volume and concentration, it is shot through with currants, raspberries, sweet oak and fascinating notes of black earth spice, and, if a bit backward and gruff in tannin, it still manages to show a certain succulence at its core. Broad-beamed, big-bone...

Community Tasting Notes (average 95.4 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 13 notes)