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Chateau Latour Winery

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Chateau Latour Bordeaux Blend -1982

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One of the wines to beat in any vintage, this bottle showed why; deep and intense right from the beginning with an unforgivingly intense nose that produces elements of powerful black fruits, game and smoked meat, but at the same time can step away and be perfumed and floral, returning to more aromas of coal, black earth and deep fruits, there is an intensity in this wine that is almost intimidating; in the mouth the wine is still young and somewhat immature, even after all this time, but there is plenty for the palate to absorb, flavors of black cherry mix with cacao and chocolate, exotic spices, and loads of black earth; tightly knit, huge finish with incredible length; endless.

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Chateau Latour Bordeaux Blend -1978

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Now beginning to show some age, the wine is still intact, however, and fully mature; earthen nose, lots of sweet fruit aromas, ripe fruit, brick and dirt, dusty aromas, slightly flabby now; same in the mouth with sweet fruit flavors at the front of the mouth, showing lots of mature flavors now, but still nicely focused; the weaknesses of the vintage are becoming more apparent with the passage of time, and the fruit is not as compelling as the wine should have, and the tannins are now exerting a considerable drying effect on the palate; spicy, earthen flavors; touch of chocolate and herbs; not as concentrated as one would like, but still full-flavored.

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Chateau Latour Bordeaux Blend -1961

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Big and powerful nose, typically opens with a powerful earthen and elemental set of aromas, red earth, then becoming more aromatic and perfumed with chocolate and green herbs, cassis, melted tar; some bottle variation at this tasting, with most bottles opening up with a powerful sweetness on the palate, but quickly turning dry and very austere; powerful structure but a lack of mouth-appeal here with gritty, earthen flavors; the better bottles showed more fruit and a softer, riper structure, but this remains an impenetrable wine with very earthen and dry elements dominant.

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Chateau Latour Bordeaux Blend -1959

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For me one of the greatest of Latours, powerful and deep nose, deeply scented with black fruit and melted chocolate, black pepper and smoke, mocha, minerals, green herbs; full and intense in the mouth, very ripe fruit flavors, but not flabby; powerful and focused, peppery and spicy with dry but soft tannins; rich and ripe; long complex finish with cassis and dried currants; beats the ’61 in my book every time.

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Chateau Latour Bordeaux Blend -1947

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Not one of Latour’s best efforts in my view and over the years I have been often disappointed in this wine; this one from Donald Zilkha, a good bottle with a ripe nose of sweet caramel laced with tobacco and cedar, quite earthen nose as Latour tends to be, lots of ripe fruit, black plum and cherry aromas, although the nose was a bit musty and had that hint of wet rags that one gets in these wines from time-to-time; in the mouth, this behaved like others I have tasted; the first taste is tantalizingly sweet and ripe, but it does not last, quickly turning very dry with an almost searing quality to the wine; food helps it some, but this quickly sucks all the saliva out of your mouth. A magnum served at the Commanderie’s Marlas summer dinner was no better, showing the same leanness that one finds in this wine throughout; there is a toughness to this wine that even for Latour suggests that the wine was not successful from the start.

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