2025, Château Latour à Pomerol, AOC POMEROLThis famous Pomerol Chateau is on the plateau and planted with 100% Merlot. It has been farmed and managed since 1962 by J P Moueix. The 2025 Latour Pomerol is lovely, offering up aromas of cherries and sweet berry fruit complemented by hints of petals and spices. Medium to full bodied, polished and suave, it's deep and seamless, with ripe tannins, bright fruit flavors and a long, penetrating finish. This stands out as one of this estate's finest

There is terrific punch to the intensely mineral-suffused and precise

with sweet but present tannins and creditable persistence on the finish

it's a gourmand

Not overpriced for the quality

Raspberry and blueberry fruits which then deepen out to the classic black fruit notes of Potensac

situated just below the Clos des Ruchottes of Rousseau and near the Mazis of Faiveley

much more accessible than in the past

vivid blackberry and cassis fruits with hidden density

fresh with austerity but balanced by juice running through the palate

sous-bois and cigar box scents

The 2024 Volnay Village includes some fruit eked from the Premier Crus this year

so thrilling