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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...
Wine Information
1960
The weather conditions
After a very fine spring, the vine was exceptionally well advanced at the end of June and, despite a mediocre summer of which August and September were quite bad, the harvest began two weeks earlier than usual, on 12 September. It was a year of ripe Merlot, which produced rounded, supple and fruity wines. The Petit Verdot, too, was very ripe, another proof of a good maturation .
The musts were frank, rich, f...
