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Latour 1995

Pauillac, First Growth

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Tasting Notes

Black licorice, cedar, cigar box and fresh herbs. Full-bodied and very structured, with firm, silky tannins and a long finish.

Score: 94

James Suckling, Wine Spectator Maturity: 2009+ 01 January 2007

Very full and sumptuous with a meaty edge to it. This could be Latour? Thick and dense. Extremely vigorous and lively. Good for drinking over the long term too.

Score: 18

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2009-2025 07 November 2005

A beauty, the opaque dense purple-colored 1995 exhibits jammy cassis, vanillin, and minerals in its fragrant but still youthful aromatics. Medium to full-bodied, with exceptional purity, superb concentration, and a long, intense, ripe, 40-second finish, this is a magnificent example of Latour. As the wine sat in the glass, scents of roasted espresso and toasty new oak emerged. This classic will require considerable cellaring.

Score: 96

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2012-2050 30 June 2000

I have been blown away by this wine on recent occasions, and all of my hopes for it being a prodigious example of Latour after bottling have proven to be correct. The wine is a more unctuously-textured, sweeter, more accessible Latour than the 1996. Wow! What a fabulous, profound wine this has turned out to be. It is unquestionably one of the great wines of the vintage, and will probably need 10-12 years of cellaring before it can be approached. The wine reveals an opaque purple color, and a knock-out nose of chocolate, walnuts, minerals, spice, and blackberry and cassis fruit. Exceptionally full-bodied, with exhilarating levels of glycerin, richness, and personality, this wine, despite its low acidity, possesses extremely high levels of tannin to go along with its equally gargantuan proportions of fruit. It is a fabulous Latour that should age effortlessly for 40-50 years.

Score: 96

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2008-2050 01 February 1998

Deep ruby-red color. More expressive aromas of crystallized dark berries, dark chocolate and animal fur. Lush and sweet; thick but delineated. Wonderfully concentrated. This, too, seems rather withdrawn today, but the strength of material is clear to see. Finishes with firm tannins and explosive fruit that goes on and on. (94+ points)

Score: 94

Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar 01 May 1998