Chateau de la Tour
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Burgundy | 1 | 95+ (VN) | HK$51,695.00 | |||||
Vinous (95+)(13.6% alcohol; 30 h/h; 9/26 harvest): Healthy full red. Ripe, rich nose offers a spectacular combination of red and darker fruits, minerals, spices, mocha, mint, dried flowers and underbrush, lifted by strong florality. Wonderfully concentrated, sappy, still-youthful wine with outstanding tactile depth and fruit retention to its flavors of cherry, redcurrant and crushed rock. Combines the energy and precision of the '08 with the greater volume of the '09. This compellingly chewy, extract-rich wine, still a bit brooding and short of its peak, expands and builds inexorably on the aftertaste. There's a 3-D texture and a noble soil character here that I find exhilarating. |
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Burgundy | 6 | 95 (BH) | HK$19,085.00 | |||||
Burghound (95)Here the nose is similar to the regular cuvée from a compositional standpoint but the fruit is denser, slightly riper and more complex as well. The very concentrated broad-shouldered flavors possess excellent concentration as the copious dry extract both coats the palate and buffers the extremely firm tannic spine on the explosively long but impeccably well-balanced finish. This is distinctly old school in style and will require extended cellaring to arrive at its peak. I would not recommend buying this ultra-serious effort unless you have the express intention of cellaring it over the longer-term. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 92 (VN) | HK$12,170.00 | |||||
Vinous (92)(50% new oak; the 2011s were racked for the first time in March of 2013 and bottled in July): Bright, fresh, deep red. Spicy black cherry, licorice, chocolate and graphite on the nose. Tactile, saline and juicy on the palate, with enticing peppery lift to the silky dark berry and spice flavors. Classically dry, energetic, firmly tannic and long but not a bit hard. |