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Latour à Pomerol 2011

RegionBordeaux
Subregion France > Bordeaux > Right Bank > Pomerol
ColourRed
TypeStill
Grape VarietyMerlot

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Tasting Notes

This well-known estate, long owned by the Jean-Pierre Moueix family, has been making strides over recent vintages to hopefully get back to the legendary quality level of vintages in the late forties, fifties, and early sixties. The 2011 possesses a healthy dark ruby/plum color, a broad, expansive mouthfeel, and plenty of jammy cherry, spice, earth and truffle notes. Rich, medium-bodied, pure and front end-loaded, this seductive effort can be drunk now or cellared for 12-15 years.

89
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (212), April 2014

Extremely perfumed red with plums and flowers on the nose. Full to medium body with integrated tannins and a juicy finish. Well done. Better after 2016.

90
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, February 2014

This property has been run by the JP Moueix family for 50 years and makes typical Pomerol of great purity and breed. Medium weight with sweet red cherry fruit and a touch of cream. Plush, smooth and supple. A charming Pomerol.

91+
Farr Vintners, March 2012

The nose is rich and sweet fruited with lots of black plum. The tannins feel ripe not holding back the fruit richness sweetness so the black plum fleshiness fills out the mid palate. The black plum is underpinned by some black cherry that gives a firmer feel on the finish.

89/92
Derek Smedley MW, April 2012

Dark fruit extract. Medium-bodied, fresh and structured. Reasonable depth. A little drying on the finish but has length.

15.5
James Lawther MW, Decanter.com, April 2012
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A strong effort with nearly 14% natural alcohol, this 2011 exhibits abundant notes of black cherries and black currants intertwined with hints of mulberries, damp earth, licorice and cedar. Evolved, ripe, medium-bodied and surprisingly rich, intense and savory for the vintage, it should drink nicely for 10-15 years. It is a sleeper of the vintage.

88/90
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (200), April 2012

Aromas of blueberries, chocolate and blackberries follow through to a full to medium body with firm tannins and a pleasing finish. Juicy.

89/90
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, April 2012
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