Château Latour - Pauillac 1996 (750ml)
Price: $899.00
| Producer | Château Latour |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 1996 |
| Sku | 3840B |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Spectator: 96 Points
Fabulous aromas of crushed raspberries plums and blackberries. Mind-blowing nose. Full-bodied with soft and silky tannins and a long caressing finish. Hard not to drink now but leave it alone.--'95/'96 Bordeaux retrospective. Best after 2010. 17000 cases made.
Vinous: 95+ Points
Saturated ruby-red. Dark berries violet licorice and a note of torrefaction. Explosive pure flavors are almost too big for the mouth. Finishes with big sweet tannins and expanding exhilarating flavors of pruneaux and crystallized dark berries. Perfectly integrated oak. A great Latour.
vWine Advocate: 95+ Points
William Kelley Wine Advocate: From my cellar the 1996 Latour is still a very youthful tightly wound wine unfurling in the glass with notions of blackcurrants loamy soil cigar wrapper and English walnuts. Medium to full-bodied deep and concentrated it's built around by ripe increasingly melting tannins and a bright spine of acidity concluding with a long penetrating finish. Given this Latour's ruby-black hue and impeccable structure it still has a long future ahead of it. Today it really begins to expatiate after four hours in a decanter. 02/22
