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1996 Chateau Latour - Pauillac
Chateau Latour
SKU 13272

1996 Chateau Latour - Pauillac

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1996 Château Latour · Pauillac
Producer Château Latour
Vintage 1996
Region Pauillac, Bordeaux
Blend Cabernet Sauvignon dominant, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot
Classification Premier Grand Cru Classé 1855

The 1996 vintage was tailor-made for Pauillac, and Latour made the most of it. Cool, dry conditions pushed Cabernet Sauvignon to exceptional ripeness while preserving the tension and structure that defines this estate. Massive, brooding, and classically austere in its youth, this is a wine of extraordinary depth — dark fruit, graphite, iron, cedar, and tobacco layered over a spine of granite-firm tannins. Thirty years on it's finally beginning to open, revealing the kind of precision and power that only the greatest left bank estates can achieve. One of the iconic bottles of the decade.

99 Points
"A hot, dry August produced very concentrated grapes in 1996. However, it turned a bit rainy in mid-September through early October, making the vintage less consistent on the Right Bank and in Graves. But as the weather turned glorious from early October on, it was an amazing year for later-harvested Cabernet in the M?doc. There was new ownership at Latour by this time, and a new vat room was completed just prior to the harvest this year. The 1996 Latour is medium to deep garnet in color with a profound earthy, meaty, gamey nose with hints of blueberry preserves, cr?me de cassis and pencil shavings. The palate is full-bodied, concentrated and packed with muscular fruit, with a firm, ripe, grainy backbone and epically long finish. Showing much more youthfully than the 2000 tasted on the same day and still possessing bags of youthful fruit in the mid-palate, this beauty is going to go on and on!"
—Lisa Perrotti-Brown-Wine Advocate
Appellation: Pauillac
Vintage: 1996
Variety: Red Blend
Region: Bordeaux
Country: France
Bottle Size: 750ml
Producer: Chateau Latour
Chateau Latour

1996 Château Latour · Pauillac
Producer Château Latour
Vintage 1996
Region Pauillac, Bordeaux
Blend Cabernet Sauvignon dominant, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot
Classification Premier Grand Cru Classé 1855

The 1996 vintage was tailor-made for Pauillac, and Latour made the most of it. Cool, dry conditions pushed Cabernet Sauvignon to exceptional ripeness while preserving the tension and structure that defines this estate. Massive, brooding, and classically austere in its youth, this is a wine of extraordinary depth — dark fruit, graphite, iron, cedar, and tobacco layered over a spine of granite-firm tannins. Thirty years on it's finally beginning to open, revealing the kind of precision and power that only the greatest left bank estates can achieve. One of the iconic bottles of the decade.

99 Points
"A hot, dry August produced very concentrated grapes in 1996. However, it turned a bit rainy in mid-September through early October, making the vintage less consistent on the Right Bank and in Graves. But as the weather turned glorious from early October on, it was an amazing year for later-harvested Cabernet in the M?doc. There was new ownership at Latour by this time, and a new vat room was completed just prior to the harvest this year. The 1996 Latour is medium to deep garnet in color with a profound earthy, meaty, gamey nose with hints of blueberry preserves, cr?me de cassis and pencil shavings. The palate is full-bodied, concentrated and packed with muscular fruit, with a firm, ripe, grainy backbone and epically long finish. Showing much more youthfully than the 2000 tasted on the same day and still possessing bags of youthful fruit in the mid-palate, this beauty is going to go on and on!"
—Lisa Perrotti-Brown-Wine Advocate
Appellation: Pauillac
Vintage: 1996
Variety: Red Blend
Region: Bordeaux
Country: France
Bottle Size: 750ml
Producer: Chateau Latour