98-100RP/99WS/97-100IWC- Possibly The Perfect Wine: 2009 Chateau Latour Pre-Sale
Before we get to today’s offer on a true, undoubted legend in the making…
This is a pre-sale offer. We are readily able to access both 6 pack and 12 pack OWC formats for this wine. However, there are also a very limited amount of OWC three packs available. When ordering quantities of 3, 6, 12 bottles or more, please specify your request for the packaging of the wine and we will do our best to accommodate all requests. Any purchaser of the 2009 Chateau Latour will be contacted by a Wine Library representative to handle any requests and/or specifics. Now to the excitable part:
2009 vintage in Bordeaux has nearly caused hysteria across the wine world. Monstrous press, record breaking prices, and unparalleled demand have all be part of this amazing campaign. The 2009 Chateau Latour will be a wine heralded for decades and looks like centuries as well. The high praise for the wine came from just about everyone with a pulse in reviewing wine:
2009 Chateau Latour-
Robert Parker: 98-100 Points
Wine Spectator: 99 Points (James Molesworth)
International Wine Cellar: 97-100 Points (Ian D’agata)
Jamessuckling.com: 98-99 Points (James Suckling)
Don’t miss out on a chance to own a piece of history! This may turn out to be one of the greatest wines ever made and will take it’s place among Bordeaux’s greats.
Again, this is a pre-sale offer. Wine is expected to arrive May, 2012.
You can place your orders via the website, or by calling the order department at (888) 980-9463, ext. 2.
2009 – CHATEAU LATOUR
https://winelibrary.com/products/64511-09-chateau-latour
Product Code: 64511
Suggested Price: $2499.99
Price: $1499.99
98-100 Points Robert Parker
"The 2009 Latour has off the charts concentration in addition to the highest level of tannin ever measured at the estate. The final blend was somewhat unusual in that it consists of 91.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.7% Merlot, and clocked in at 13.7% alcohol (even higher than the 2003). Possibly a 100-year wine, it boasts an inky/black/purple color as well as an extraordinary perfume of super-intense blue and black fruits, graphite, and a liqueur of rocks-like minerality. Enormously full-bodied yet at the same time incredibly fresh, vibrant, and precise, it coats the mouth, and builds incrementally to skyscraper-like texture, and a whopping finish that lasts over a minute. This remarkable wine reveals a certain accessibility already, yet one senses that it will be even richer, more nuanced, and fuller by the time it is bottled in mid-2011. A monumental wine from a monumental vintage in the Medoc, this is our children’s children’s children’s elixir."
99 Points Wine Spectator
"This seems to come full circle, with a blazing iron note and mouthwatering acidity up front leading to intense, vibrant cassis, blackberry and cherry skin flavors that course along, followed by the same vivacious minerality that started things off. The tobacco, ganache and espresso notes seem almost superfluous right now, but they’ll join the fray in due time. The question is, can you wait long enough? Best from 2020 through 2040. 9,580 cases made."
97-100 Points Ian Dagata
"Purple ruby. Flamboyant aromas of red cherry, cassis, graphite and cedar soar from the glass. Then very dense, supple and smooth, with a noble texture and great breadth to its red cherry, blackcurrant, spicy plum, ink and cedar flavors. Finishes with exceptionally velvety tannins and a very ripe, almost perfumed quality to the red and black fruit flavors. A large-scaled and clearly great wine that calls to mind a combination of the 1982 and 2005 Latours. That said, while this wine shares some of the 2009 Mouton’s voluptuous perfume, it lacks the extraordinary finesse of either the 2009 Lafite or Margaux, but is much more powerful than both of those wines. Millionaires will have a lot of fun over the years comparing the first growths of 2009 and arguing over which is the best."
98-99 Points James Suckling
"This reminds me of twins that have a very different character. One is very flamboyant with ripe and wild fruit, and a dense and powerful finish. The other is reserved and serious, with an intense tannin structure. Combined they are a complex whole that is mind bending. Great complexity. I would like to spend hours contemplating this. Barrel sample."
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