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    1 135
  • Producer ranking ?

    58
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    Lamb Loin with Carrot Risotto

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The growing cycle started early (beginning of March) but was then delayed by a cold spell until 25 March; a beautiful end of April enabled the vines to catch up again. It was recorded that the vines at Latour were in full bloom on 15 June and flowering proceeded in excellent conditions. Fine weather came in early July and continued until mid-September. Rather than compromising quality, the heavy rain from 12 to 17 September enabled the bunches...

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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

Bordeaux: After four miserable vintages came the hot vintage of 1975 which put Bordeaux wines briefly into the limelight once again. The unsettled temperature in September turned into good weather for the harvest. Grapes were high in sugar content, but for many reds especially Cabernet Sauvignon based ones were lacking of phenolic ripeness. This yielded masculine and even aggressive reds with austere and even hard tannins.

Graves and Pomero...

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Vintage 1975

Bordeaux: After four miserable vintages came the hot vintage of 1975 which briefly put Bordeaux wines in the spotlight once again. The unstable temperature of September turned into good weather for the harvest. The grapes were high in sugar, but many reds, especially those made from Cabernet Sauvignon, lacked phenolic ripeness. This resulted in masculine and even aggressive reds with austere and even harsh tannins.

Wines from Graves and Pom...

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Average Bottle Price

2016 2015 2014 2013 2011 2010 2005
357€ +2.3% 349€ -15.3% 412€ +33.8% 308€ -18.5% 378€ +49.4% 253€ +75.7% 144€

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.

Latest Pro-tasting notes

19 tasting notes

Tasting note

color

Medium

flavors

Cardamom and Coffee

taste

One-dimensional

Written Notes

Medium red. Ripe berries with a scent of over ripeness. Quite light. Was pleasant on the palate, but quite dry in the aftertaste. Lacked concentration, sweetness and had too dry tannins on the palate, to really be a gilt-edged experience. It won't profit from additional cellaring.

  • 88p
Medium intense, ruby colour. A bit closed, very intense black fruits with mineral nose and touch of toffee and licorice. Mediumbodied, vivid acidity, big tannins and bit steely black fruit character. Moderately long, mineral finish. Decant for 4 hours. Peaking in 2025.
  • 86p
Very top shoulder fill. Bright ruby, garnet rim. Opened up superbly with three hours of decanting. Intensely scented, more scented and cedar, plums, cassis and a very slight touch og prunes. Finest leather available. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins and quite noticable even if ripe. Lovely. Lively, can be mistaken for lean mid-palate but lots of things going on. Refreshing and lively finish, superb complexity, very long finish. Exquisit with filet of venison.
  • 98p
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Above Average

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None

Glass time

2h
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