Justin Fail

9.4

This is actually for the Forrest Petit Manseng but it was not an option to choose. Beautiful dessert wine, creamy and fruity with a long lasting flavour. I’m not a dessert wine person, but this awesome — 5 years ago

Willem Booij

9.3

I had my fare share of chateau Latour the last 2 decades, and every time it surprised me that this a wine that never gives up. Strong in good years en without fear in the so called “bad” vintages. With my hand on my heart I can tell you that Latour is my al time favourite, based on on at least a dozen time’s for as far is I remember I tasted it. Mostly by the generosity of good friends from the past and present. The same I can say about LFDL, but quit surprising not about this third wine of Latour, made in the same area from a different plot but by the same skilled crew and under the same conditions. So what’s there to tell about this wine? Is it good or is it not good, and the other big question is it worth the price asked for, its not a cheap wine! The 2015 Le Pauillac de Chateau Latour is a blend of 54.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41.7% Merlot and 4.1% Petit Verdot. The colour is perfect as it is, just as a great Bordeaux red bastard must be in its youth. Then the nose: The flavours fly out of the glass, notes of beautiful ripe Forrest fruit an blackberries, a hint of my humidor and some deep dark flowers. In the mouth it’s not a heavyweight champion but more a well structured delicate wine, some nice fruit and all ready very drinkable at this moment. Well balanced and still potential to soften a little bit more and give more flavours in the nearby future. But overall it’s a true to type Pauillac that satisfied my curiosity. I can easily drink a few bottles of this wine this decade but it’s not a bargain! But it’s from Latour so I think it’s going over the 93 point I rated it now in some years. — 5 years ago

AJ Gubser

9.2

Nose of mushroom, forrest floor, bramble berries, iron. Really nice to see those tertiary notes coming through.

Palate is soft and velvety with red fruit, a touch of sour cherries, some spicy oak notes, and a dusting of fine tannins. Light to medium body.

A very fine, elegant, easy drinking, but still complex G-C. I'm glad we opened this now since I can't see it getting much better. — 6 years ago

with Brooks

AJ Gubser

9.4

Lovely nose of blueberry, boysenberry, clove, pepper, oak, and loamy, forrest floor.

Palate continues with much of the same. Acidity is still nice and bright, but the tannins are soft and velvety. Oak notes are still there but are so well integrated and just lend to the complexity.

Beautiful wine in a beautiful place in its evolution. Lovely to just sip and contemplate. — 6 years ago

with Brooks

Craig Stanfield

9.4

Probably a bit young. It's certainly tightly wound. Bright red and blue fruit at the first. Medium tannin. Spice, including anise, and Forrest floor. After a couple of hours, the tannins seem oddly firmer. Picking up more chocolate and tobacco notes, along with plum. Really great wine. I'll need to sit on my other bottles for a few years, though. — 8 years ago

Carol Krakowski

9.5

Very fresh, smooth, fruity but not sweet — 9 years ago

Justin Fail

9.5

Tried this at the vineyards tasting. Brought a bottle home and drank it with a Caribbean Pork dish - perfect. So yummy!! — 5 years ago

Fredrik Finn

9.3

The last bottle of my 2012 Vosne Romanée from Alain Hudelot Noëllat and its a wonderful show that it manage to put up. Like a grand dame in its golden years bit with a hell of a spirit its displaying evolving characters of dried strawberries, rose petals, blood orange and menthol that is backed up by a prominent choir of nutmeg, clove, truffles, wet stones and forrest floor. Fresh palate with very present but smooth tannins, an expansive palate as the encore slowly fades out in a very respectful and balanced finish.
Day 2 tasting and its pumped up, more nuanced, defined and dresses up to its teeth in elegance. The last bottle of six will leave its mark for sure. Divine! — 5 years ago

Brenda Terzich-Garland

9.3

Beautiful aged wine although color does not reflect it’s aging; wine—dark purple with only remnants of aging. Sweet perfume initially on the nose —bam! With black berry fruit, wet forrest floor currants and some vanilla. Mouthful of luscious dark raspberry pencil lead with tobacco and cherry finish. Tannins are definitely present and can age for another 15-20 years. — 6 years ago

with Jill and Karin

Brett Rogosin

9.0

Immediately get some ripe red fruit, baking spices like nutmeg, forrest floor, wet wood. The palate has silky and somewhat chalky tannins with acidity that hits the putter rims of the mouth. The baking spices are present, but with a bit less ripe red fruit. Maybe some white pepper creeps in towards the end. This is a good showing with a bit more time, but why wait. Doesn’t need a long decant. — 6 years ago

with Brooke

Ben Christen

9.5

Mushroom Forrest floor and safety from the war above hiding in the caves being fed by the French - Rachel’s descriptors nailed it. — 6 years ago

with Emily

Giancarlo Cicero

9.4

Great wine! Forrest floor, cedar, and cigar on the nose. Dark chocolate still on the palate, surprisingly. Also still have time left. — 8 years ago

Ann

8.9

With tomato, basil chic pea salad. Wsj wine. T and I both like a lot — 8 years ago

Gilbert Van Hassel

9.7

It is a beast of a wine and yet it is approachable. Tannic but sweet tannins, full bodied, black fruits, mineral with a super long finish. The leather, gamey, Forrest floor undercurrent is starting to develop but will need another 5 years. A hedonistic bomb. Will give you pleasure for another 10 to 15 years easy. — 5 years ago

Al Shikoh

9.2

medium ruby; red berries, rose petals, forrest floor, some oak influence; red fruits, silly tannins, 14% ABV; 6% whole cluster inclusion, fermented mostly in open top stainless steel and concrete, aged 44% in new French oak for 16 months and 16% in concrete for 10 months; the most elegant and balanced of KB’s appellation level bottlings; $68 — 6 years ago

Joseph LaPanna

9.2

Intense, interlaced aromatics of black cherry, smoke, mint, and white pepper. Medium to full boddied with bright fruit and even brighter acidity! Dusty and mouth coating tannins mix with bright plum, black cherry, forrest floor, cola and smoke. The finished is long and smooth as silk. — 6 years ago

Fredrik Finn

9.4

Quality check on Le Raganie Brunello di Montalcino 2013 and what a showstopper, starting off a bit shy but evolves into a layered complexity with plenty of finesse, with four hours in the decanter its hard to raise your nose from the glass. Red, very vibrant fruit is backed up by dried spices and pronounced but balanced savoury complexity of forrest floor and crushed stones. A subtle volatile lift brings further complexity. Fresh palate with, fine grained tannins and a tactile sensation that brings the wine throughout its long finish. Not Brunello, its a trademark Ragnaie! — 6 years ago

Jan de Weerd

9.2

Earthy, great dark fruit. Fuller body than most Pinot’s we tasted. — 7 years ago

with Tammy

Marc vanholst

9.5

Still so young but already solid. Pegau in good years always performs. Spices,pepper but also lots of forrest fruit. Great complexity and nice length. Beautiful but will still get better. — 7 years ago

Craig Stanfield

9.5

More French Syrah in style than I would have thought. Games with wild, brambly fruit. Blood, meat, truffle, loamy earth and dark fruit. Forrest floor on the nose. It also has sucrosity and a richness as it opens. — 9 years ago