Tasting Notes
Neal Martin 93
The 2016 Latour-Martillac offers classic Pessac-Leognan scents on the nose: black fruit, black olive and a touch of sage, plus hints of blue fruit that emerge with time. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit and fine acidity. A little compact toward the finish, but with good persistence. My feeling is that this will close down quite soon after bottling, but there is a great wine here.
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2045
Wine Advocate 93
The 2016 Latour Martillac is medium to deep garnet-purple in color with warm plums, kirsch and redcurrant jelly on the nose with touches of bay leaves, iron ore and black soil. Medium-bodied with a well-sustained mid-palate of muscular fruit, it has a firm backbone of fine-grained tannins and wonderful freshness, finishing very long.
Anticipated maturity: 2020-2037
JancisRobinson.com 16.5
Tasted blind. Silky texture and good freshness. Solid left-bank claret from a ripe vintage. Quite long. (JR)
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2040
Jane Anson 95
A superb vintage all over Bordeaux, and absolutely one that you should be searching out with the Crus Classes de Graves. You can wait for this to soften for sure, because the tannins are pretty racy right now, squaring up to the blackcurrant and blackberry fruit rather than cradling it, but there is such a charm to its confidence that I am pretty tempted to say go for it now with a few hours in a carafe. Liqourice, cocoa beans, creme de cassis, espresso and a ton of brambled autumnal fruits. 40% new oak.
Anticipated maturity: 2022-2038
