Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: A monumental wine! Remarkable body, even compared to its peers, and magical tension. The harmony of the wine is nearly perfect, with never-ending length: the Latour of our dreams! 19/20

John Gilman: Château Latour is another very, very powerful example of the vintage, and while the wine is impeccably balanced and does not show a single strand of hair out of place, at 14.4% alcohol, it must be at least three quarters of a percent headier than the legendary 2009. The result to my palate is a wine that is even more powerful than its predecessor but also less precisely mineral on the back end and half a step behind the 2009 as a result. The bouquet is deep, ripe, and very pure as it offers up scents of sappy cassis, black cherries, espresso, a touch of dark chocolate, Cuban cigars, gravelly soil tones, and a fine base of cedary new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, very powerful, and ripely tannic, with impeccable balance, a bottomless core of fruit, very good balance, and a very long, chewy, and palate-staining finish. The ripeness of the 2010 vintage is most evident here on the back end, where the mineral lift of the much more transparent 2009 Latour is clearly absent in the 2010. This is still an absolutely superb wine, with no signs of heat or overripe flavors, but it is just a tad blurry and fruit-driven on the back end from the additional ripeness of the vintage, and this will take many years of cellaring to sort out. 2030–2100+. 18.5/19

Michael Schuster: A dense nose of mineral, graphite, gravel, and fine fruit; a perfect balance that is full, refined, concentrated, and fresh (without any impression of crispness) and with tannins so fine they barely register, such is the absence of asperity; a seductive ripeness of fruit that is deep, fresh, pure, and transparent, with great subtlety and minerality of aroma, a mouth-coating fruit fragrance, and terrific, mineral-scented length. This is a Latour of power, grace, and delicacy, with superb tenacity of flavor. Remarkable claret; great wine. 2026–60+. 20