100 RP / 99 FS / 99 WCI / 98 JS / 97 WE / 18 JR A modern day version of the 1959 Lafite, the 2003 Lafite Rothschild was bottled in mid-May, 2005 after achieving 12.9% natural alcohol hardly an astonishing figure given the...
100 DE / 100 WA / 100 JS / 100 WE This vintage featured a cold winter and cool weather at flowering, followed by a dry summer with a hot July and warm days and cool nights in August and September. The season...
100 DE / 100 JS / 100 JD / 99 WA / 99 VM / 98 WS #98 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2019 What I love about the 2016 Lafite is that the sweetness of the fruit comes through even at this early stage...
100 DE / 100 JS / 100 JD / 99 WA / 99 VM / 98 WS #98 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2019 What I love about the 2016 Lafite is that the sweetness of the fruit comes through even at this early stage. Sweet, ripe...
100 WA / 100 WE / 99 JS / 98 JD / 98 DE / 98 VM / 97 WS#34 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of France 2021#53 Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2021 Lafite celebrates their 150th...
100 WA / 100 WE / 99 JS / 98 JD / 98 DE / 98 VM / 97 WS#53 Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2021 Lafite celebrates their 150th Anniversary with a Special Label for the 2018 vintage The...
100 WA / 100 JS / 98 JA / 98 WS / 98 VM / 98 DE / 98 JD One of the greatest wines produced in Bordeaux this year is the 2019 Lafite Rothschild, an impeccably balanced classic of immense charm and grace...
100 JD / 100 WE / 100 JS / 99 DE / 98 VM / 98 WI / 97 WA / 97 JA Looking at the Grand Vin, the 2020 Château Lafite-Rothschild is a sensational effort checking in as 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, and...
99-100 JS / 98-100 WI / 97-99 JD / 98 DE / 96-98 VM / 97 JA / 95-97 WA A classical Lafite that reminds me of something like the 1986, with its blackcurrant and tobacco character with cedar and hazelnut, but it's so today...
98-100 JA / 97-99 WI / 97-99 WA / 97-98 JS / 95-98 VM This hits you right off the first nose, driven by slate and crushed rocks, setting the tone and the architecture, guiding the fruit through the palate. Cassis, bilberry,...
96 WS Harmonious, supple and very generous, full-bodied, with ripe tannins; perfect to enjoy now but it should last, it's almost black in color and explodes with cassis and green olive aromas and flavors.--Château...
91 VM As it is my birth year, I enjoyed two or three encounters with the 1971 Lafleur before. To be honest, it is not as good as one might expect given that Pomerol excelled in this vintage. It has a leathery nose with...
98+ WA Along with Haut Brion, this is one of the two candidates for the wine of the vintage. The wine is approaching full maturity, yet still seems so atypical for a 1979, a phenomenally concentrated, thick, massively...
98 WCI / 97+ WA Off the hook from the first sniff, sip, and swallow. The compelling nose, with its ripe and overripe plums and kirsch, black cherry, charcoal, mint, flowers, truffle, and forest scents was almost more than...
91 RP Still backward, but one of the great successes of the vintage, the 1994 still has a deep ruby/purple color, notes of plums, a hint of prunes, earth, truffle, and mineral. As the wine sits in the glass, some of the...
100 WA / 100 DE / 19 JR I am not surprised the 2000 Lafleur has garnered the magical three-digit score. From bottle, the wine boasts a dense plum/purple color in addition to a gorgeous nose of kirsch liqueur intermixed with...
95 RP / 93+ VM / 93 WS / 93 JS / 18 JR The 2006 Lafleur, which I had not tasted from bottle prior to this visit, merits 95 points. One of the vintate’s most brilliant wines, this blend of 61% Merlot and 39% Cabernet...
97 JS / 96 DE / 18 JR Complex aromas of blackberry and whole white truffles with hints of wet earth and stones. Full body and structured with gorgeous, velvety tannins, but reserved and polished. Very long finish with...
95 DE / 95 JS / 93 WA In a difficult vintage like 2013, reassuring hands are what you look for, those with an instinctive ability to tease out the best possible from the character of the year. Weather wise things were...
100 WA / 100 JS / 100 JD / 100 DE / 100 VM / 99 WI / 99 JA / 98 AG / 18.5 JR The 2019 Lafleur is an utterly profound young wine that unwinds in the glass with aromas of rose petals, raspberries and sweet spices...
99 WA / 98+ AG / 98+ WI / 98+ JD / 98 VM / 98 JA / 98 DE / 98 JS One of the wines of the vintage, but likely to prove slower evolving and more introverted than its 2019 counterpart, the 2020 Lafleur unwinds in the glass...
98-99 JS / 97 VM / 97 DE / 97 JA / 95-97 JD / 96 WA / 95+ WI / 18 JR Woooow! This really rolls off the palate and goes on and on, Full-bodied and so long. Sweet and sour. Cherries, currants. Orange peel. Thought-provokingly...
99-100 DE / 98-100 JA / 98-99 JS / 97-99 WA / 97-99 VM / 96-98+ WI / 96-98 JD / 17.5++ JR A sublime wine from Lafleur in 2022 that delivers a vibrant, electric and incredibly charming wine with subtle power. A beautiful...
95 AG / 95 JD / 94 VM / 94 WS / 94 JS / 93 DE / 92 WA The 2019 Lafon-Rochet is every bit as compelling today as it was from barrel. There is a feeling of elegance to the 2019 that is so striking. Sweet dark cherry, plum new...
96 VM / 94 DE / 93 JD / 93 JA / 17 JR / 93-95 WE The 2020 Lafon-Rochet represents the essence of classicism in Bordeaux. Medium in body and finely-cut, Lafon-Rochet is one of the classiest, more refined...
95+ JD / 95 WA / 94 VM / 94 WI / 94 JS / 93 DE Coming from depressingly low yields of just 26 hectoliters per hectare (the lowest since 1991), the 2020 Château Lagrange checks in as 74% Cabernet...
94 VM / 93 WA / 93 JA / 92-93 JS / 93 JD / 91 DE The 2021 Lagrange turned out beautifully. Succulent red cherry, plum, cedar, tobacco, spice and mocha infuse the 2021 with gorgeous depth. Soft, succulent and inviting,...
95-97 VM / 96 DE / 96 JA / 96 DE / 94-96+ WA / 94-96 WI / 94-95 JS / 91-94 JD The 2022 Lagrange was picked between 8 and 30 September, it ages in 60% new oak for a planned 21 months. It has an almost clinical bouquet, with...
La Collection Parcellaire is offered in an exclusive limited edition of which only 250 individually numbered cases have been produced. The décor of the case represents the cartography of the Ch. Lagrange vineyard...
97 JS / 95 JD / 94 WA #59 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of France 2023This is very linear and structured, with blackcurrant, pine-needle, graphite and cedar aromas and flavors. Intense. Full-bodied, chalky and intense...
93 WA / 93 VM / 92-93 JS / 92 JD / 92 AG / 92 JA / 89-91 WI The chateau is celebrating 200 years in 2021 with a special label. The 2021 Langoa Barton offers up attractive aromas of dark berries and plums mingled with sweet...
96-97 JS / 95 DE / 93-95+ WA / 93-95 JD / 94 JA / 92-94 WI / 91-93 VM Deep fruit, dark spices and graphite with wide yet polished, linear tannins. Full-bodied and intense with depth and structure. Long and chalky at...
96 WS / 94 VM This is creamy, with crushed plum, red currant and cherry fruit seamlessly layered and gliding along, while notes of bergamot, rooibos tea, cedar and allspice paint a lovely backdrop. Mature, but still firm...
100 RP / 100 JD / 96 VM With an unbelievable nose of licorice, tapenade, black cherry and blackcurrant liqueur, as well as full body, super-sweet tannin, and astonishing richness and length, this prodigious effort in 2005...
99 JS / 97 AG / 96 JD / 95 WS / 95 WA / 95 DE / 96-98 GV #81 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2018 The aromas to this are phenomenal with oyster shell, blackberries, iodine and black truffles. Full-bodied,...
96 JS / 96 VM / 95 WI / 94 JD / 93 WS#72 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of France 2020 This is a wine that is showing lots of structure with tightly wound tannins that spin through the center palate...
97-98 JS / 96-98 WA / 95-97 JD / 94-97 WS / 94-97 VM / 95 DE This is very structured and powerful with bright and electric acidity and fine-grained yet muscular tannins. Full-bodied yet compact and focused. Greatly formed...
100 JD / 97 VM / 97 JS / 96 WA #7 Jeb Dunnuck Top 100 2021#98 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of France 2021 The 2018 Château Larcis Ducasse checks in as 89% Merlot and 11% Cabernet Franc that comes from a...
99 WI / 99 JD / 98 VM / 98 DE / 98 JS / 97 JA / 96 WA / 17 JR#2 Wine Independent Top 10 QPR Collector Wines under $100 2023#51 Jeb Dunnuck's Top 100 2023 The 2020 Larcis Ducasse is a blend of 90% Merlot and 10%...
96 JS / 96 WI / 93-95+ JD / 94 VM / 94 JA / 94 DE / 91 WA Very complex and subtle with cedar, dried herb, green tobacco, berry and lavender aromas that follow through to a medium body, with ultra-fine tannins that give...
98-100 JD / 98-99 JS / 97-99 WI / 96-98 VM / 97 DE / 96 JA / 94-95 WA Tasted on multiple occasions and one of the legendary wines in the making from this vintage, the 2022 Château Larcis Ducasse clocks in as 86%...
94 AG / 93 JD / 93 JS / 93 JA / 93 DE / 91-93 WI / 92+ WA / 92 VM The 2021 Laroque is classy, elegant and polished. A wine of stature and breeding, Laroque is a quintessentially finessed Saint-Émilion. Silky tannins...
97 DE / 95-97 JD / 93 - 95 WA / 93 - 94 JS / 92 -94 VM A clear stand out in 2022 that delivers refined density and sublime drinking pleasure. Smells perfumed and opulent, aromatically expressive and alive on the nose. Full...
92-94+ LPB / 94 JD / 93 VM / 93 JS / 93 DE / 90+ WA Opaque purple-black colored, the 2019 Larrivet Haut-Brion charges out of the gate with wonderfully fragrant scents of black raspberries, Morello cherries and wild...
94 JA This definitely gives Giscours 1970 a run for its money in terms of being the sleeper of the Margaux appellation in this particular vintage. Plenty of depth and vibrancy to the colour (barely lighter than the 1990 by...
16 JR A pleasant red, with berry and tobacco character. Medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a delicate finish. - Wine Spectator A deep garnet core with thin tawny rim. Looks quite mature for a 9-year old Cru Classe. The...
96 JS / 95 WI / 94 VM / 94 JA / 94 DE / 94-96 WE / 93+ JD / 92+ WA This is extremely linear and refined with a super-fine line of tannins running through the center of the wine. It’s full-bodied, yet...
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98 WA 1949 750ML LATOUR #40 STAINED LABEL/LOW FILL On each of the previous occasions I have had this wine it has flirted with perfection. This bottle was again a riveting, opulently-textured drinking experience. Its...
98 WA 1949 750ML LATOUR #42 TORN LABEL/NO FOIL/LOW FILL On each of the previous occasions I have had this wine it has flirted with perfection. This bottle was again a riveting, opulently-textured drinking experience. Its...
100 WA / 99 VM Port-like, with an unctuous texture, and a dark garnet color with considerable amber at the edge, the 1961 Latour possesses a viscosity and thickness. One of the three bottles served at the Chateau's tasting...
19.5 JR / 96 WA / 94 JS Very deep crimson. A very big-boned wine of great density. Some very strong menthol character with a touch of liquorice too and pretty dry on the finish. This seems to have taken on flesh since its...
94 RP / 92 WS / 90 VM / 18.5 JR One of the great wines of the vintage, the 1978 Latour has reached full maturity. While it does not possess the extraordinary concentration of the massive 1970, or the power of the 1975, the...
100 VM / 100 WA / 100 AG / 100 JA / 100 DE / 100 WI / 100 RP The 1982 Latour is the most consistent of the First Growths in this auspicious vintage. Tasted from both bottle and magnum in the UK in recent months, this note...
97 DE / 96 RP / 96 WCI / 94+ VM / 94 WS / 18.5 JR The nose showed warm and sunny, baked black and red fruit on the nose and a supple but dense texture. The impressive level of tannin noted in earlier tastings is softening...
100 WA / 99 RP Deep garnet-black in color, the 1996 is classic Latour at its utmost. The nose offers a tantalizing array of complex notes including dried Chinese plums, toasted nuts, Indian spices and black olive tapenade...
94 RP / 93 WS / 92 VM Readers looking for a modern day version of Latour's magnificent 1962 or 1971 should check out the sensational 1999 Latour. It is a big, concentrated offering, exhibiting a dense ruby/purple color, and...
100 JS / 99 WA / 98 RP / 97 VM Latour has made truly great wines in the past two decadesand this is one of the best. It has fabulous aromas of black truffles, currants, raspberry and dried flowers. Mind-blowing on the...
96 RP / 96 WS / 94+ VM / 94 WCI / 17.5 JR The wine of the vintage? There are only 10,000 cases of this extraordinarily rich, dense 2002 that is as powerful as the 2003 (even the alcohol levels are nearly the same, 12.85%) ...
100 RP / 100 JS / 98 WS / 97 ST / 97 WE Administrator Frederic Engerer says the 2003 is the sexiest Latour ever made. He also described it as the 1990 without any brettanomyces. I loved this wine from the barrel and was...
100 RP / 100 JS / 98 WS / 97 ST / 97 WE “Administrator Frederic Engerer says the 2003 is “the sexiest Latour ever made.” He also described it as “the 1990 without any brettanomyces.” I loved...
100 VM / 100 JS / 100 WI / 99 WS / 99 JD / 98+ WA / 98 RP/ 98 JA / 19 JR The 2005 Latour was mind-blowingly profound in two recent tastings for this report. Deep and sensual to the core, the 2005 is utterly captivating...
97 DE / 95 RP / 95 WS / 95 VM / 94 WA / 18.5+ JR Powerful, concentrated and seriously young tannins are closed tight around the pure, intense, dark, sweet fruits, followed by a deep undertow of liquorice, cloves and...
100 JD / 100 WA / 100 RP / 100 JS / 99 VM / 99 DE / 99 WS An incredible wine in every way, the 2009 Château Latour displays the ripe, sexy style of the vintage while still offering classic Latour power, density, and...
100 VM / 100 WA / 100 DE / 100 RP / 100 JS / 99 WS / 99 WE The 2010 Latour can be summed up in two words: “The king.” It convincingly asserts its superiority over other 2010s, including First Growths, in terms...
100 VM / 100 WA / 100 DE / 100 RP / 100 JS / 99 WS / 99 WE The 2010 Latour can be summed up in two words: “The king.” It convincingly asserts its superiority over other 2010s, including First Growths,...