99-100 Jonathan Choukroun - Vert de Vin

The nose is elegant, fine, racy, delicate and offers a beautiful finesse of the grain, an aerial side, a small intensity, deepness, balance as well as a small power/richness full of richness/delicacy. It reveals notes of ripe blackberry, ripe strawberry and small notes of crushed redcurrant associated with fine touches of juicy plum, black cherry, cornflower as well as a hint of lily, crushed cassis, grey pepper, liquorice as well as a very discreet hint of tea and cardamom. The palate is fruity, juicy, gourmand, elegant, beautifully defined, racy and offers a beautiful finesse of the grain, finesse, power, freshness, tension as well as a fine acidulous frame. On the palate this wine expresses notes of fleshy/juicy blackberry, fleshy/juicy strawberry and small notes of cherry associated with small touches of violet, lilac, cassis as well as hints of nutmeg, bergamot, an imperceptible hint of hazelnut, vanilla and sweet spices. Tannins are beautifully fine and racy. A beautiful acidulous persistence.

99 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Ripe and very powerful aromas of black licorice, currants and violets. Full-bodied, dense and flavorful with lots of very new, flashy wood. Sexy and gorgeous. Round and polished tannins. Superb wine for the vintage. Try after 2028.

98 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2017 Latour is a blend of 92.1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7.8% Merlot and 0.1% Petit Verdot with 13.3% alcohol and an IPT of 66. Deep garnet-purple in color, it starts off a little broody before exploding from the glass with powerful scents of ripe blackcurrants, blackberry pie and preserved black cherries plus touches of cedar chest, fenugreek, cumin seed and charcoal with emerging wafts of violets, dark chocolate, star anise and fertile loam. Medium-bodied, this may be one of the most elegant, great Latours ever, revealing layer upon layer of fresh, crunchy black fruits with a vast array of exotic spice and floral nuances, framed by super ripe, super fine-grained tannins, finishing very long with mineral sparks coming through. This is so nuanced and perfumed that I imagine, in 50 years, this wine could be mistaken for a great red Burgundy.

98 Jane Anson - Decanter

Latour is an utterly fascinating wine to taste nowadays, as there is little doubt that it is undergoing a profound change - almost certainly due to biodynamics. The 2017 is less monumental and yet no less impactful than previous vintages, and is very much in the frame of recent Latours. They are bravely following where they believe it should be, rather than where the market expects it to be. It opens with hugely vibrant spice followed by powerful, richly concentrated cassis and autumnal fruits that steal up on you. This beautiful wine has great persistency and precision, with real bearing and good Pauillac structure. Those tannins come rushing in until, by the end, you feel their insisting power. The levels of precision are astonishing - the team blind-tasted the berries for three weeks before harvest to track maturity and decide picking dates. There are touches of 100-year-old Petit Verdot in here. 30.3% of the estate's production went into the grand vin. 6.4% press wine. 66 IPT.

98 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Independent

A blend of 92.1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7.8% Merlot, and 0.1% Petit Verdot, the 2017 Latour has a deep garnet-purple color. It sashays out with showy notes of warm cassis, mulberries, and Morello cherries, followed by emerging tertiary hints of unsmoked cigars, rose oil, cardamom, and star anise, with a waft of iron ore. The medium-bodied palate is elegantly styled and mineral-laced, featuring loads of exotic sparks and velvety tannins, finishing on a lingering anise note. Beautiful! While it's in a nice place right now, another 2 to 4 years in bottle should allow for even more of this gorgeous, emerging perfume. It will easily cellar for another 30 years beyond that.

98 Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux

A seriously pretty Latour, not a phrase often associated with this most concentrated of wines, with real lyricism. Beautifully layered, with muscles that have a cushion of air underneath them. As during En Primeur, its sculpted character highlights the impact of biodynamic farming, but bottle ageing has seen it take on the customary concentrated layers of this Pauillac First Growth. The signature pencil lead, crayon, mint leaf and crushed rocks are here in abundance, along with cassis and bilberry fruit, kissed with rosebud and peony florality, and textured slate tannins that slow things down through the mid palate. A delicious wine, vibrant, balanced, decades ahead of it, even if the soft sculpting of the vintage means it will be ready to drink earlier than 2016 or 2018 on either side. First year in full organics, although not certified until 2019, and the first without Cabernet Franc in the blend. 100% new oak. No frost on the Grand Vin plots, in a year where many parts of Bordeaux were impacted, proof again of what a favoured site this is.

98 Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider

Showing a caliginous hue, the wine is concentrated, full bodied, powerful, firm and graceful, coating your palate with layers of ripe, sweet, dark red fruits with salty tannins. Even with all the acidity it is impossible not to enjoy the ample sweet fruits, firm, ripe tannins, complexity and incredible length, with purity of fruit, that lingers. It's a Latour that should be a pleasure to taste between 15-20 years after the vintage, which is fine since you'll probably be waiting until 2027, give or take, until it's released. The wine was made from a blend of 92.1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7.8% Merlot and 0.1% Petit Verdot, reaching 13% ABV. The harvest took place starting with the Merlot September 11, finishing with the Cabernet October 4

97 Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2017 Latour lives in the realm of the totally sublime. Vertical and deep, with soaring intensity, Latour is simply magnificent in 2017. I especially like the energy and aromatic depth of the 2017, but all the elements are just impeccably balanced throughout. Constantly changing in the glass, the 2017 is a mesmerizing Latour that will thrill those lucky enough to own it.

96+ Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

Based on 92.1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7.8 % Merlot, and a splash of Petite Verdot, the 2017 Chateau Latour spent 16 months in new barrels and hit 13.3% natural alcohol with a pH 3.7 and an IPT of 66. It's a classic, ageworthy Latour offering a deep purple/ruby hue, textbook Latour graphite, lead pencil, minerality, and cassis-driven aromatics, building tannins, and a beautiful sense of power married to elegance. Flawlessly balanced, medium to full-bodied, and with the class that this estate is known for, hide bottles for 7-8 years and enjoy over the following 3-4 decades.

96 Chris Kissack - Wine Doctor

It is beautifully dark and expressive on the nose, all red rose petals, raspberry, dark chocolate and blood orange, with a touch of menthol. This precedes a rather sinewy style on the palate, although it maintains a rather juicy edge into the middle, with a modest framework of tannins. Rather elegantly poised, this shows a surprisingly gentle integration, with a modestly made blanket of floral fruit laid over the grip that becomes evident with time. This is showing a rather gentle evolution, with a powdery tannic structure which persists into the finish. It has a rather classic, almost old-school composition, traditional, with gentle fruit and a firm frame. This should age well over the next decade, and maybe another after that.