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Château Latour 1959

Château Latour, Bordeaux, Ranska

Château Latour
Bordeaux Ranska
  • 100
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  • The 56 best of the all Tb wines
  • 28 tasters of 28 recommend this wine
1308 100
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96 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

 Dark garnet with an amber edge, the 1959 Latour reveals a touch of volatile acidity in the nose, along with aromas of melted caramel, tobacco, and jammy red and black fruits. As the wine sat in the glass, notes of minerals, coffee, spice, and underbrush emerged. There is still copious tannin in the finish (I am not sure it will ever be fully resolved), but this sumptuous, complex, fragrant, super-ric...

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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

Warm and wet spring. Severe frosts on 22 April. Flowering started 25 May and finished on 14-20 June. Very fine, hot weather in July and August, if a little too dry. The grapes suffered and did not develop. September was hot and generally dry with the harvest on 21 September. Musts were rich, colored and promising. Tumultuous fermentation as it was very hot.

Vintage quality and tasting comments
First tasting : this could be a very great win...

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Vuosikerta 1959

Bordeaux 1959 was proclaimed the wine year of the century by overzealous journalists. Even though it was an excellent year, it simply was not the best of the century. The year started off with ideal weather conditions. Summer was perfect all the way until the autumn, when the rains came in mid-September. But the rains made way for hot, dry weather, thus setting a magnificent stage for the start of the harvest.  The result was a truly ripe and ...

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Viinin keskihinta

2022 2020 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2005 2000 1995
2 890€ +33.4% 2 166€ -11.1% 2 436€ +11.2% 2 190€ -1.2% 2 217€ +19.6% 1 853€ -1.8% 1 887€ +3.0% 1 832€ +4.2% 1 758€ -18.0% 2 144€ +51.9% 1 411€ +44.0% 980€ +72.8% 567€ +95.5% 290€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Viimeisimmät viinimuistiinpanot

51 Viiniarviota

Viiniarvio

color

Deep, Ruby red ja Healthy

ending

Long, Extensive ja Flavorful

flavors

Cedar, Blackcurrant, Earthy, Smoky, Cigar-box ja Leather

nose

Intense, Complex, Seductive ja Pure

recommend

Yes

taste

Average in Acidity, Warming, High tannin, Well-structured, Perfectly balanced, Complex, Developing, Full-bodied, Ripe, Firm, Full, Dry ja Drying tannins

Loppupäätelmä

Sophisticated ja Outstanding

Kirjoita arviosi

The 1959 Chateau Latour was deep, dark and brooding as Latour often is. It had hints of chocolate and smoke with lots of grit. There was a touch of twang and charcoal with tremendous length. It was a little chunky and still felt too young, give it 20 more years, at least this bottle needed it (97+)!

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  • 97p

Every year, a group of us select a theme, submit a wine or two of the highest order and have a day of it. The tasting of the wines kicks off 10am, and it is followed by a long lunch (a different group of wines for it). We have winemakers, retailers, friends and winelovers all join in. Over the years, we have focused on Taylors Vintage Ports, Rhônes, Vosne Romanée Grand Cru, Chambertin, Barolo and this year, Bordeaux (or the TGWM lunch, standing for the thin, green, weedy muck lunch, as some non-believers called it).

The wines went back to 1928 and included some stars such as Lafite 1948, Margaux 1985, Mouton 1986, Mouton, Cheval Blanc and Pichon Lalande 1982, a few Sauternes back to 1945 and more. A disappointingly high number were destroyed by cork taint (and yes, I would very much prefer to see screwcaps on First Growths than have them stuffed with mouldy tree bark and am yet to hear any creditable argument to the contrary).

The 1959 Latour was the wine of the day. Unchallenged. Usain Bolt had more trouble winning the Olympics. Amazing colour – deep red (for those concerned that this might fall into the fakes bin, it came from a friend who had cared for it for many decades, having purchased it back in the day when the very idea of faking a wine would seemed like lunacy – and this would have cost an abysmally small amount). Amazing condition. It was an utterly compelling, brilliant wine. Seamless, complex, balanced, great length. Richly flavoured. Roast meats, chocolate, dry vegetation. Incredible stuff (needless to say, no mention of TGWM once this was served). A very great wine, from a prodigious vintage.

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  • 100p

I am not sure how I have been this lucky to have tasted this wine more than any other 1959, but I am not complaining. Especially after this bottle. Balancing power and grace, the wine is bright, spicy, full, and deep, with layers of tobacco, cedar, cigar box, smoke, spice, ash, oceanic scents, and red fruits. Long, intense, and expansive, this is an incredible tasting experience.

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  • 98p

This wine has a beautiful colour and expresses the roasted flavours of the 1949, combined with the fullness and smoothness of the 1953. Very rich, complex nose overlaid with ripe fruit, cedar and dark mint chocolate. On the palate it is ripe and full-bodied yet also very concentrated and structured. A great wine that still has ageing potential.

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From a half bottle, this is amazingly fresh. Good deep colour. Finely elegant cherryish nose is sweet and rounded with a hint of leather. The palate is fresh and supple with cherry and berry fruit. So elegant and fine with amazing precision of bright fruit and some grippy tannin. 96/100

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  • 96p
Bonhams auction buy. Towards mid shoulder fill, soaked cork. Ruby, orange rim, sediments, not fully clear. Leather and prunes nose, lightly floral, not that intense. After half an hour of air, scented, violets, nuanced and elegant, aristocratic. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, lean and narrow, first, fruity and of not intense, way more rounded. Lovely texture and structure, almost sweet, touch of prunes and figs, ripe blueberries, long. 96
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Tietoja

Alkuperä

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vuosikerran laatu

Ylivertainen

Hintansa arvoinen

Erittäin hyvä

Sijoituspotentiaali

Keskiarvon yläpuolella

Väärennösriski

Ole varovainen

Viinin kestävyys lasissa

1h

Nauttimislämpötila

16
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