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Wine Description
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...
Vintage 1976
The 1976 wine vintage in Bordeaux was a highly irregular, forward-drinking, and unusual year that was heavily shaped by a historic and blistering summer heatwave. An intensely hot, drought-plagued summer pushed the grapes to maximum sugar ripeness, but heavy autumn downpours during the September harvest compromised what initially promised to be a legendary crop, diluting the fruit and inflating the berries. The resulting dry red wines were gen...
