Chateau Latour 1990

99-100 points Neal Martin – Wine Advocate

"Tasted several times, shining at the 1990 horizontal when first encountered in March 2000. Next at the Farr 89 v 90 in September 2004, a perfect bottle. A very dense, powerful nose of black fruit, graphite, cedar and pencil-lead. A beautiful palate with superb concentration and acidity. A mass of ripe black fruit but with a freshness that cuts through everything. Focused, harmonious with seamless tannins. This will needs a few years to show its strength, but what distinguishes this wine is the persistency, the grip, the refusal of the taste to leave the palate. Awesome. Then in December 2004 where it was "Opulent yet regal and refined." At the Latour/Petrus vertical in November 2005. Certainly some maturity on the rim: thin brick colour. A stunning nose: liquorice, freshly ground coffee a little chestnut. Very intense and concentrated. Very dense tannins with a very sweet, Pomerol-like, raisined mid-palate. An extrovert wine, flamboyant but utterly enjoyable with masses of potential.”