2015 Louis Latour Morey St Denis 750 ml

“One of the Best” Vintages & Best Price in the U.S.

Red Burgundy lovers, this is a must-read.

The 2015 Louis Latour from Morey St. Denis is a red Burgundy beauty, layered with black cherry, violets, and age-worthy tannins, combing early drinking appeal with the ability to cellar for the long-haul. How good was the 2015 vintage in Burgundy? Wine Enthusiast didn’t hold back when it declared the harvest “one of the best of the century.” Decanter posed the question, “Is 2015 a vintage to buy?” The answer came swiftly, in one word: “Definitely.”

But with quality soaring, so too are demand and price. Allocations are disappearing into the deep cellars of three Michelin-starred restaurants the world over, leaving many hopefuls in the dust. But not us. Untold trips to the Côte d’Or find us with the keys to many prestigious cellars, including Louis Latour, the largest holder of Grand Cru vineyards in all of Burgundy. The 92-point 2015 Morey St. Denis wasn’t an easy catch, but it was definitely worth the effort.

In a year when $100 bottles are at the low end of the price spectrum, the 2015 Louis Latour Morey St. Denis presents a tremendous value to go along with gorgeous ripeness, layered red and dark fruit, and the hallmark freshness of the vintage. Sourced from 35-year-old, hand-harvested Pinot Noir vines planted in the chalky limestone soils of Morey-Saint-Denis, the 2015 impresses from start to finish. As Allen Meadows of Burghound, Burgundy’s toughest critic, wrote, “I very much like the sense of underlying tension to the beautifully well-detailed and lightly mineral-inflected flavors that culminate in an ever-so-mildly austere finale. This is really quite good.”

Having tasted more than a few vintages of proprietor Louis-Fabrice Latour’s high-scoring Pinots, many in the company of the man himself, we weren’t surprised to see him harness a generous year like 2015 to great ends. As the seventh Louis Latour to steward the precious Burgundy estate, Louis-Fabrice continues to push the envelope on quality, as he has done here, with this classic 2015.