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  • Country ranking ?

    1 416
  • Producer ranking ?

    86
  • Decanting time

    30min
  • When to drink

    Now
  • Food Pairing

    Honey Soy Venison

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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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Wine Information

1911 Château Latour

A hot summer and drought that continued until late in the fall produced many superb, though quite harsh wines in Bordeaux. Latour has been regarded as an exceptionally soft and calm wine at least compared to the other first growth wines. None the less at least the wine I now got to taste had kept its backbone well, but was still a gentle and sophisticated wine.

As a Latour it was surprisingly light and delica...

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Tasting note

color

Full

ending

Short and Smooth

nose

Intense, Opulent and Generous

recommend

Yes

taste

Complex, Rich and Full

Written Notes

Château Latour 1911 / A hot summer and drought that continued until late in the fall produced many superb, though quite harsh wines in Bordeaux. Latour has been regarded as an exceptionally soft and calm wine at least compared to the other first growth wines. None the less at least the wine I now got to taste had kept its backbone and structure well, but was still a gentle and sophisticated wine. Decanted 30 minutes. This is my second Latour from this rare vintage, and it had improved a lot over the first one. As a Latour it was still surprisingly light and delicate, if tasted blind I would have thought the wine´s origin to be Pomerol. As the previous bottle already started to lose some of its fine qualities after 30 minutes from decanting, this one just started to breed. It has a good balance and full, opulent and vivid taste. Lovely smooth fruit on top of a tannic grip. This time it was now complex and thriving enough to provide real interest  and quality. As has been said many times before: there are no good wines, only good bottles. 94 points

  • 94p

We continued with another flight of Bordeaux, and the Comte found the 1911 Latour to be an ‘old baby.’  This had the most intensity of the old flight despite bring the oldest wine.  Someone else admired the ‘house style’ of Latour after all these years!  There were great citrus, walnut, beef, iron and mineral flavors here, along with an exploding finish.  Great vanilla flavors emerged as well.  I am so glad I grabbed this bottle at one of our auctions when no one else had the balls to do so ???? (97).

  • 97p
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Average

Value For Money

Poor

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None
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