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Château Latour--Vintage 1978
Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Tastng Notes: One of the great wines of the vintage, the 1978 Latour has reached full maturity. While it does not possess the extraordinary concentration of the massive 1970, or the power of the 1975, the 1978 offers a stunningly fragrant nose of roasted herbs, sweet, jammy black fruits, nuts, and minerals. There is almost an iron taste, as if it were a vitamin supplement. The wine is medium to full-bodied, with fat, rich, concentrated flavours of black fruits, earth, and smoke. Although it has been delicious for some time, this wine reveals no signs of weakening. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Robert Parker; Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition (1998).
Rich garnet core, with tawny rim, colour well sustained; nose is open, perfumed and green-peppery, showing the brightness of less than perfectly ripe Cabernet Sauvignons, with some mushroom, and black olive character. Starts with rich fruit, then has fresh fruitiness in mid-palate and lovely harmony, now softened - long and complex. At Christie's King Street boardroom dinner, co-hosted with Florence-Rogers-Pinault and Frédéric Engerer, prior to sale of Great Vintages from Châteaux Pétrus & Latour, November 2005 A.H.
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Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Tastng Notes: One of the great wines of the vintage, the 1978 Latour has reached full maturity. While it does not possess the extraordinary concentration of the massive 1970, or the power of the 1975, the 1978 offers a stunningly fragrant nose of roasted herbs, sweet, jammy black fruits, nuts, and minerals. There is almost an iron taste, as if it were a vitamin supplement. The wine is medium to full-bodied, with fat, rich, concentrated flavours of black fruits, earth, and smoke. Although it has been delicious for some time, this wine reveals no signs of weakening. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Robert Parker; Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition (1998).
Rich garnet core, with tawny rim, colour well sustained; nose is open, perfumed and green-peppery, showing the brightness of less than perfectly ripe Cabernet Sauvignons, with some mushroom, and black olive character. Starts with rich fruit, then has fresh fruitiness in mid-palate and lovely harmony, now softened - long and complex. At Christie's King Street boardroom dinner, co-hosted with Florence-Rogers-Pinault and Frédéric Engerer, prior to sale of Great Vintages from Châteaux Pétrus & Latour, November 2005 A.H.
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