The 2020 Les Forts de Latour is much more contained and focused compared directly with the Pauillac de Latour, extraordinarily pure with blackberry, raspberry, cedar and violet scents, again, a touch of liquorice in the background. The palate is medium-bodied. Very fine tannins frame the silky black and blueberry fruit that merges into classic cedar and graphite notes towards the finish. Awesome. Deuxième only in name.
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The 2020 Les Forts De Latour brings everything up a substantial notch, offering medium to full-bodied aromas and flavors of crème de cassis, lead pencil shavings, liquid violets, and spring flower notes. It shows the fresher, pure, focused style of the vintage, has an incredible floral character, ripe, fine tannins, and great finish. Give it 4-5 years at a minimum, and I suspect it's capable of evolving for decades.

Dark fruits on the nose with purple violet floral reflections, milk chocolate and cocoa touches give hints of savoury complexity on the nose. Pumped, alive and round, this is full in the mouth, supple but with high acidity. Round and textured in the mouth with powdery, crushed velvet tannins giving the depth and width. Round, bright, vivacious, plump and juicy. Joyful but still cool and fresh with salty stone elements, blue fruits as well as plums and blackcurrants with cola touches. I really like this, feels really well worked, very complete, lively, energetic, and detailed. 3.7pH

The 2020 Les Forts de Latour is composed of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26.5% Merlot and 3.5% Petit Verdot, incorporating a 64-hectoliter tank of Merlot that would normally have been included in the Grand Vin but which didn't fit with this year's blend. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of minty cassis, plums, licorice, pipe tobacco and vanilla pod, it's medium to full-bodied, rich and velvety, with terrific depth at the core and a somewhat more textural, granular profile than the suave 2019.

(70% CS, 26% M, 4% PV; 44% harvest, 13.1% ABV)
A rich combination of ripe red fruit and minerals to smell—very promising; lovely balance of a good depth of flavor, a relatively lively acidity, and very fine-textured, satiny tannin; deep and juicy freshly ripe dark-fruit in flavor, marked by gravelly aromas, compact, fleshy textured, long in the mouth, with plenty of matter and density for the cru; sappy and sapid, with excellent fruit and aroma length. A composed, complete, elegant, classically propoprtioned Forts. Lovely. 2028–48+.

Tasted blind. Very dark crimson. Pure, fragrant dark fruit. Harmonious, succulent with beautifully fine tannins. Immense refinement and length without sheer mass. (JH)