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    1 506
  • Producer ranking ?

    92
  • Decanting time

    45min
  • When to drink

    Now
  • Food Pairing

    Beef

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The Story

The chateau makes three different wines. The so-called grand vin, that is Château Latour itself, a second wine called Les Forts de Latour and a third wine simply called Pauillac. The grand vin comes from the original part of the vineyards, called the Enclos. This is the most prestigious part of the vineyard where the vines have a fine view of the Gironde estuary. The tradition in Bordeaux says that vines that overlook the water make the best w...

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Vintage 1914

Bordeaux: Harvest from September 24th a few months after World War I began. Quality nudged up this year, but initial high hopes for a brilliant vintage did not prove correct. Harvest month was also the moment when the government moved from Paris down to Bordeaux as German troops approached the French capital. They stayed for four months. In Pauillac the Rothschild families of Mouton and Lafite opened a hospital and provided barrels of wine for...

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It was a truly exciting night that left more than fifty wine lovers absolutely giddy. We sampled some Latour again for lunch the next day, and three of the vintages were the same: 1938, 1948 and 1922, and my notes were consistent. We also sampled three other vintages we did not have before, beginning with a 1914 Latour. This bottle had the lowest fill of any of the bottles we sampled (high shoulder), and it was the oldest, so I was a touch concerned at first. I should have known better by this point! This was another spectacular bottle, even more so when considering this was the year that World War I began. The Poet picked up on ‘lead pencil,’ and its nose was deep yet a bit shy given its age. Cedar slowly emerged, as it showed its finish qualities first, but the fruit would follow on the palate. Coffee and citrus dominated this rich and lush red, and tender meat and flesh flavors fell off of its bones. Yum (95).
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Pauillac, Bordeaux
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