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Ch Latour Pauillac releases | 2019 Ch Latour 1er Cru & 2020 Les Forts de Latour

We are delighted to announce today’s release of the much-anticipated Château Latour 2019, which has just been released at £1,395 per 3 bottles IB, looking very fair compared to other comparable vintages in the market.

“2019 Château Latour is another perfect wine in the vintage and is as prodigious as they come.” 100 points. Jeb Dunnuck 

Also released today is the 2020 vintage of the second wine, Les Forts de Latour, at £840 per 6 bottles IB. Receiving an enviable 95 points from Neal Martin, Antonio Galloni, and described as “rich and velvety, with terrific depth” by William Kelley, this is a wonderful example of the might of Latour at a fraction of the Grand Vin price, from a beautiful vintage, and absolutely not to be missed.

2019 Ch Latour 1er Cru Pauillac Ex Chateau Release March 2026 - 1x150cl

  • Red
  • 2029 - 2062
  • Château Latour
  • 1x150cl
  • Pauillac, Red Bordeaux
  • Available Later
Pricing
£930.00 In Bond £1,123.72 Duty Paid inc VAT

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, February 2026, Score: 98

    Brilliantly deep cassis and dark currant aromas, with a touch of fresh tobacco leaf. Initially a little reserved in the palate, but one can feel the mass of dark fruit. A very composed style despite a feeling of overall weight, it has controlled volume with a dense sweetness and fine purity. No doubting its class, this is a great wine in the making. David Robert MW

  • Neal Martin, March 2023, Score: 98

    The 2019 Latour has a discrete nose that unfurls gradually, taut and fresh, with touches of graphite and cedar. This just wants to underplay everything. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit framed by fine tannins. Very precise though it feels as if it is closing down on the finish. Yet there is clearly a very long aftertaste. A really cerebral Left Bank for long-term consideration. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting. Drink 2027-2060.

  • Antonio Galloni, February 2026, Score: 98+

    The 2019 Latour is elegance and class personified. The picture of modern-day Latour, the 2019 is virtually seamless in the glass, with all the elements beautifully woven together. Bright saline notes lend energy as well as tension throughout. The 2019 is not an explosive or huge wine, but it is immensely elegant and polished in the modern style of Latour, much of which, in my view, is the result of biodynamic farming and better balance in the vineyard. Specifically, the broad, imposing tannins that were once a Latour signature appear to be a thing of the past. Drink 2031-2069.

  • Wine Advocate, April 2022, Score: 99+

    The 2019 Latour is a profound wine in the making, and it will surely emerge as one of the most long-lived wines of the vintage, as well as one of the greatest. Unwinding in the glass with scents of rich cassis fruit, English walnuts, cigar wrapper, black truffle, loamy soil and violets, it’s full-bodied, layered and muscular, with huge depth at the core, ripe tannins and lively acids, concluding with a long, seemingly interminable finish. Checking in at 14.1% alcohol, this prodigious Latour will require two decades to hit its stride, but it will be more than worth the wait. Drink 2036-2070

  • Jeb Dunnuck, August 2022, Score: 100

    ?Looking at the Grand Vin, the 2019 Château Latour is another perfect wine in the vintage and is as prodigious as they come. Revealing a deep purple hue, it displays a powerful and complex array of pure Pauillac cassis-like fruit as well as lead pencil, graphite, chalky minerality, truffle, and espresso and shows the vintage’s more elegant style perfectly, with nothing out of place. It is medium to full-bodied, with ripe, sweet tannins, but it still has that classic Latour regalness, concentration, structure, and class, with just a hint of its normal youthful austerity. This flawless balanced, structured, insanely good Latour will be drinkable in just 7-8 years but evolve for 40-50 years in cold cellars. Hats off to the team.

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, February 2026, Score: 98

    Brilliantly deep cassis and dark currant aromas, with a touch of fresh tobacco leaf. Initially a little reserved in the palate, but one can feel the mass of dark fruit. A very composed style despite a feeling of overall weight, it has controlled volume with a dense sweetness and fine purity. No doubting its class, this is a great wine in the making. David Robert MW

  • Jane Anson, February 2026, Score: 98

    Tobacco, liqourice and graphite all spread on toasted sandalwood, cedar, gunsmoke, cassis, black truffle, bilberry, crushed rocks and incense. The tannins here are very much slate and pumice stone, you feel the salt scrape, the length and persistance, and the oh-so-slow unrolling of pleasure. This has graceful depths and floral aromatics alongside Pauillac muscles and is a stellar Latour that needs another three or four years of cellaring to really soften. Overall yield of just under 45hl/h, unusual as the average yield at Latour is closer to 35hl/h. 100% new oak for ageing, 36% of overall production.

  • LPB, February 2026, Score: 100

    The 2019 Latour is deep garnet in color. It rockets out of the glass with powerful notes of boysenberry preserves, juicy plums, and crème de cassis, followed by hints of dark chocolate, licorice, tar, and crushed rocks. The medium to full bodied palate is rich with juicy black fruit layers, supported by velvety tannins and bold freshness, finishing epically long and flamboyantly spicy.

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