Château Latour--Vintage 1970

6 bottles per lot
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Château Latour--Vintage 1970
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Levels: three bottom neck and three very top shoulder; three damp stained labels
"One of the top two or three wines of the vintage (Petrus and Trotanoy are noteworthy rivals), this young, magnificent Latour is still 5-10 years away from full maturity. The opaque garnet color is followed by a huge, emerging nose of black fruits, truffles, walnuts, and subtle tobacco/Graves-like scents. Full-bodied, fabulously concentrated and intense, with a sweet inner-core of fruit (a rarity in most 1970 Médocs), and high but well-integrated tannin, this enormously endowed, massive Latour should hit its prime by the end of the century and last for 2-3 decades thereafter. This is will be the longest-lived and potentially most classic wine of the vintage. Cream always comes to the top." Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #105 (Jun 1996)
6 bottles per lot