Louis Latour’s Chambertin Grand Cru “Cuvée Héritiers Latour” 2016 is a 100% Pinot Noir from Gevrey-Chambertin, drawn from the house’s 0.81-hectare holding in Chambertin, a parcel the Latour family has owned since the late 19th century. The vines average about 35 years of age, the fruit is hand-harvested, and the wine is made in a traditional style with open-vat fermentation, then aged 10–12 months in 100% new French oak from Latour’s own cooperage (medium toast). In a difficult but high-quality Burgundy year shaped by frost and mildew pressures, this wine reads as built for patience.

Several reviewers deliver excellent verdicts, led by James Suckling’s 97-point score. Suckling calls it “concentrated and muscular,” noting a “pretty massive tannin structure” and advising time—“Try to wait at least until 2020,” adding that with five years it should be “even more exciting.” That combination of power and youthful energy is echoed elsewhere, with the wine consistently described as tightly structured now.

Decanter (94 points) emphasizes immediate aromatic impact, saying it is “bursting from the glass with a direct nose of creamy red and black fruit, meaty bass notes and orange rind,” and describing a palate that is “full-bodied, rich and powerful,” with “considerable structure and grip” carried by an “ample core of fruit.”

Wine Spectator rates it 95 and spotlights both generosity and oak, calling it “bursting with ripe, succulent cherry, licorice, smoke and spice flavors,” while noting it is “marked by oak now yet has the requisite fruit underneath.” Their drinking window—“Best from 2023 through 2043”—frames it as a long-haul Chambertin.

William Kelley for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate (95) finds it “the most reserved” Latour red from bottle, “unfurling reluctantly” toward “spicy berry fruit, peony, orange rind and savory nuances of forest floor,” and reports it improved for “over a week,” reinforcing the case for cellaring.