LE PAUILLAC 3rd wine of Ch. Latour, Pauillac 2018 Bottle

Description

The 2018 Le Pauillac de Château Latour is an impressive wine from a generous vintage, characterized by ripe blackberry aromas and sweet spices. It has a rich, chocolatey texture and flavors of blackcurrant and black plum. James Suckling rated it 94 points, praising its complexity with tobacco and cedar notes, medium body, and layered tannins, noting it should age well, best enjoyed after 2025. Decanter awarded it 90 points, highlighting its flexible tannins and fresh character, showing more finesse than during its en primeur tasting. Jancis Robinson scored it 16.5 points, noting its stony cassis aromas and dense, chocolate-textured tannins, with generous fruit on the finish despite the tannin structure.

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JAMES SUCKLING 94 Points
13 Apr, 2023 – This is already very complex with tobacco, blackberries and hints of cedar. It’s medium-bodied with firm and layered tannins. Juicy and so delicious. It can age, too. Delightful now, but better after 2025.

DECANTER 90 points
Drinking Window: 2023 - 2036 - Still knitted down but this has flexible tannins with a real whoosh of freshness underneath. There is a feeling of sinew through the wine, and it shows both character and finesse. There is balance and depth to the brambly fruits, and altogether showing better than it did en primeur, likely to be released in 2023. A yield of 24hl/ha with 21% of production going into this wine. - Tasted by: Jane Anson, Part of Anson: Lafleur 2018 and the battle against climate change.

JANCIS ROBINSON 16.5 points
Black core and purple rim. Lightly stony cassis, scented and pure. Dry, dense and chocolate-textured tannins. A bit of a curtain of tannin but the fruit seeps round the edges. Generous fruit and open apart from the tannin framework. Sweet fruited on the finish. (JH)