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Château la Tour Blanche 2009 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
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96-98 Barrel sample. A powerful, complex wine, its layers of sweetness mixed with a total dryness from botrytis. The wine is impressively rich, considerably inspired by dried fruits and spice. Certainly for aging over decades.
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(8/9/2010)
Château la Tour Blanche 2010 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
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94-96 Concentrated, chunky, the richness just a part of the huge power. It's a wine of considerable density, very liquorous.
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(6/25/2011)
Château la Tour Blanche 2006 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
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93—95 Barrel sample. A very intense, ripe wine, packed with botrytis. It has great ripe flavors, plenty of apricots and dense, full fruit. At the top.
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(12/31/2009)
Château la Tour Blanche 2011 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
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93-95. Barrel sample. This is a crisp-textured wine, with a complex structure of rich, dense fruits, spice and wood. The wine is only just coming together, promising many years of aging ahead.
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(5/11/2012)
Château la Tour Blanche 2012 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
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93–95. Barrel sample. A gorgeous wine that's very opulent while also structured. It has richness and weight, and is remarkably dry at the core, but with surrounding delicious sweetness. It's likely to be a long-lived wine.
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(4/8/2013)
Château la Tour Blanche 2008 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
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92-94 Barrel sample. A full in the mouth wine, its botrytis a big, rich character among the super-rich fruit. There is power here, intensity of flavor, a dense, concentrated wine.
— R.V.
(12/31/2009)
Château la Tour Blanche 2005 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
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91-93 Barrel sample. A deeply golden-colored wine, but to taste, it is more poised and fresh than the color suggests. There's an attractive liquorous feel to the wine, but that is balanced by good clean, fresh fruit tastes. This will be delicious.
— R.V.
(6/20/2006)
Château la Tour Blanche 2004 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
90–92 Apples and cream, richness and sweetness, this wine is almost ready to drink. There is acidity and freshness, as well as fine botrytis.
— R.V.
(6/1/2005)
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