Chuck Hayward, JJ Buckley, April 2011

The bouquet of this wine is extremely enticing with plush and pure fruit aromas along with underlying minerals that weave in and out. These same components repeat on the palate with a sense of purity and length that is quite compelling, and the focused flavors are elegant with just the barest sense of breadth across the palate. Meanwhile, the long finish tapers gently, propelled by the finest of tannins and just the right amount of acid. Beautifully poised and looking incredible at this point. Will provide excitement over the next twenty years.

96 points,

James Suckling, jamessuckling.com, February 2013

Gorgeous nose with strawberries, toasted hazelnuts and milk chocolate. Black currant, sweet licorice and lots of flowers. Great fruit and full body on the palate with a structure that just keeps adding layers of fruit and minerals. Very silky tannins and wonderful intense finish. It's about great harmony in this wine. Best Latour a Pomerol in years. Drink from 2017.

Jancis Robinson, April 2011

Mid crimson. Rather unusually open red fruit aromas. Then great freshness and polish. Tannins quite hard to discern until the very end of this super-fruity number. Easy to love, even if without massive intensity. Slightly angular on the end. Lighter than some but with great appeal. 17 out of 20

89 -91 points,

Jeff Leve, TheWineCellarInsider.com, April 2011

Truffle, forest floor, chocolate and cherry aromas open to a supple, medium/full bodied, soft textured wine that ends with a black cherry, licorice finish

93 points,

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, November 2012

Tasted at the offices of Ets J-P Moueix, the Latour-a-Pomerol '10 has a "strict" bouquet with tightly would black fruit that demand coaxing from the glass. With several minutes aeration there are mineral tones coming through, suggestions of black truffle that will surely develop with bottle age. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannins. It has good backbone, a little more precision than vintages say in the 1990s tended to exhibit. This is a very terroir-driven Latour-a-Pomerol that is not as generous as the 2009 but has superb tension on the finish.

92 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, March 2013

Elegant loamy soil notes intermixed with sweet cherries as well as hints of underbrush, mocha and mulberry jump from the glass of this pure, medium to full-bodied, dense wine, which possesses good glycerin, flesh and richness. It should drink nicely for up to 15 years.

91 -94 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, June 2011

Good, full ruby-purple. Perfumed nose of blackcurrant, violet and sweet spices. Large-scaled, rich and sweet, with terrific creamy depth even if it's not yet fully expressing its ripe, seamless blackberry, coffee and truffle flavors. The very smooth tannins are smothered in fruit on the clean, long finish. This strikes me as one of the best La Tour a Pomerols in years.

92 points,

Wine Enthusiast, May 2013

Solidly based on its firm tannins, this is an impressive wine. Acidity and blackberry fruits are sewn together by the tannic structure. There is a touch of minerality as well, lending the wine to the promise of long-term aging. -R.V.

95 points,

Wine Spectator, March 2013

Dark and loamy, with fig bread and ganache out front, followed by steeped fig, pastis-soaked plum and Black Forest cake notes, all layered and backed by a long, licorice and graphite-filled finish. Offers more than enough fruit and acidity to soak up the abundant toast. For fans of the big style. Best from 2015 through 2030. -JM

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