Château La Tour de By, Médoc, Bordeaux, France, 2013

85
Tasted by: Steven Spurrier
Drinking Window: 2016 - 2020
Dense colour, full, quite chunky Médoc fruit. Slightly hard but should soften.
86
Tasted by: Jane Anson
(at Château La Tour de By, 30 Jun 2018)
Drinking Window: 2018 - 2023
The difficulties of 2013 are well known, but as with the 2007 this is tasting good right now. It has soft red fruits and gentle extraction, with far fewer tannins accompanying the fruit (they think perhaps an IPT of 58, compared to 80 in a year like 2010).This doesn't have the concentration to be truly long-lived, but it's fresh, open, lilting and carefully made.
Producer
Château La Tour de By
Vintage
2013
Colour
Red
Country
France
Region
Appellation
Médoc