Winemaker Notes
Intense, dark colour. Outstanding depth and aromatic purity on the nose. Tightly-wound yet elegant tannins give a powerful wine with a velvety-soft mouthfeel. An exceptional year, this Château Latour demonstrates its pedigree, showing great complexity and perfect balance. A wine for long-cellaring.

Vintage Notes: After a mild and wet autumn, the first months of 2010 were particularly cold and dry. Consequently, bud-break was late and was observed on 10th April, though the ensuing summary weather hastened vegetative growth. The vines were in bloom on 3rd June but cold and wet weather early June led to shot and shattered berries in some zones. Seasonal weather returned during the third week of June. Water stress began to develop at the end of June in some plots in the Enclos and increased in July, further concentrating the berries. The colour-change occurred on 7th August and the grapes continued ripening in optimal conditions until harvest.

Critical Acclaim

Decanter - 100pts
I get the same peony and violet aromatics here as I did in Forts de Latour. This is powerful, muscular, not even getting close to being ready. The tannins crowd in from the mid palate onwards, extremely physical in the way they make their presence felt. Behind them, if you give the wine enough time in the glass, it gives black pepper spice, pencil lead, slate and compressed earth, along with cassis, bilberry and all the tight compact dark-berried fruits you can think of. Don't even consider this for another five years at least. This is a monumental Latour and a flashing signpost for how good this vintage is in Pauillac.

Jeb Dunnuck - 100pts
The 2010 Château Latour is a monumental wine that exemplifies what greatness in Bordeaux can be. Still deep ruby/purple in color, it offers a stunning bouquet of blackcurrants, tobacco leaf, leather, and graphite. Full-bodied and deeply concentrated, it has a layered, expansive mouthfeel, building tannins, and the unmistakable class and regalness that define Latour.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 100pts
The 2010 Latour is deep garnet in color, and—WOW—it erupts from the glass with powerful crème de cassis, Black Forest cake and blackberry pie scents plus intense sparks of dried roses, cigar boxes, fragrant earth and smoked meats with aniseed and crushed rocks wafts. Full-bodied, concentrated and oh-so-decadent in the mouth, it has a firm, grainy texture and lovely freshness carrying the rich, opulent fruit to an epically long finish. It is incredibly tempting to drink now, but I suspect this hedonic experience isn't a scratch on the mind-blowing, otherworldly secrets this time capsule will have to reveal given another 7-10 years in bottle and continuing over the following fifty years++.

Vinous - 100pts
The 2010 Latour is conspicuously deep in color. It has an intellectual, intense and captivating bouquet with mineral-rich black fruit, graphite and crushed rose petal scents. Utterly spellbinding. The palate is the real deal. Heavenly balance, perfect acidity with seamlessly integrated new oak, there is an enthralling crescendo towards a finish that is simply as good as Bordeaux gets. Impeccable.