Chateau Latour-Martillac, Rouge Cru Classe, Pessac-Leognan 2009

The best ever wine from this estate (even better than their sensational 2005), this full-bodied wine offers notes of blueberry, black currant, asphalt and burning charcoal embers in a deep, layered and multi-dimensional style. It is impressively pure and well-built, with far greater concentration and length than I ever remember this wine having in the past. Forget it for 5 years and drink it over the following three decades.

• Drinking Window: 2017 - 2047
• Reviewer Name: Robert Parker
• Review Date: December 2011