Stephen Browett: A very deep color. Big, powerful nose with some creamy, toasty vanilla notes. This is a real iron fist in a velvet glove! Beautifully polished, really sumptuous texture, with a smooth mouth-feel, but there is great depth and power, too. One of the most forward Latours ever, but there is still a sense that behind the smiling façade there is hidden strength. The overall winner of the first growth flight—and, indeed, of the entire tasting. 19Andrew Jefford: Wow...turning it on here. Chundering out; splendid depth and richness and freshness. Cherry and graphite... Absolute depth and saturation. Coated, dense, power, huge power, great sheer depth. A wall of flavor. Absolutely complete. Graphite; you could spend hours here. Drinking in 5–10 years.

Michael Schuster: Dark, narrow-rimmed red; dense, generous, very lightly oaky nose with an abundant warm fruit, ripe and roasted to smell; rich, round, generous, and concentrated in constitution, fairly massive, but bears its fleshy weight and its warmth with ease, tannin clearly there, but beautifully covered; sweet, mouth-enveloping fruit, long and large, but retaining its class; an impressive combination of concentration and complexity, with the vineyard character still clearly there. The tannin is revealed much more on the finish, and this is clearly still very youthful. A veritable fruit bomb for Bordeaux, but still with superb refinement and length. Great Latour, in its vintage-dominated, opulent style. Approachable early, but ideally from 2018. 19 (Tasted in March 2007)