2016 La Tour Blanche
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The 2016 La Tour Blanche is perhaps the one disappointment in recent years. It is tightly wound with a light adhesive scent on the nose and misses the complexity of the 2017. The palate is candied on the opening, with marmalade and quince notes, hints of red fruit and a touch of orange liqueur toward the finish. It is packed full of flavor but just misses the nuance that makes a great La Tour Blanche. I have encountered much better examples and will defer giving any score based on this bottle.
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James Suckling
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The 2016 La Tour Blanche has an extremely well defined bouquet featuring intense honeyed, botrytis-rich fruit, supremely well focused and conveying fine terroir expression. The palate is medium-bodied with viscous honeyed fruit laced with orange zest, marmalade, ginger and quince. There is a wonderful sense of harmony here. Persistent in the mouth while maintaining superb tension. Impressive. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.
Tasted blind. Great stuff! Perfect balance and liveliness. Maybe not the sweetest but so beautiful! Creamy and pure. GV (JR)
Pale lemon-gold colored, the 2016 la Tour Blanche gives flamboyant tropical layers of mango, guava and passion fruit with hints of clover honey, beeswax, nutmeg, jasmine and preserved ginger. Big, rich, concentrated and seductively oily in the mouth, the palate is unashamedly decadent, and it finishes very long and spicy.