Château Latour-Martillac Pessac-Léognan 2019

The year 2019 was marked by a succession of climatic events which made this vintage quite technical. After an early budbreak, we had a cold and wet Spring which led to a late flowering of the vines. This took place in rather cool and rainy weather leading to coulure and millerandage, most notably on some plots of Merlot. The heat wave then took over at the end of June with a particularly hot and dry July. The vineyard resisted rather well to the drought and to the hydric stress which rapidly took hold. The unexpected rain at the end of July enabled the full completion of veraison.

The white grape harvest started on September 3, in line with our average harvest dates. Sweet, acidic and with a brilliant aromatic potential, the grapes were picked in a perfect sanitary state.