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Château Latour--Vintage 1997
Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
A useful vintage, for pleasant-enough drinking while giving more time for the wines from 1995, even from 1989, to mature further, and, of course, before the better, younger vintages. The hottest spring for half a century caused premature but prolonged budbreak and uneven conditions. Flowering was also very early-but this was also extended and uneven. May was cool and wet which caused coulure and millerandage, both reducing potential crop size. Hot and sunny for the second half of August and through the unusually early but prolonged harvest, late-picked Cabernet Sauvignon being particularly successful.
"First tasted alongside the 1996 at the château in September 1998: deep, fairly intense; a whiff of liquorice; surprisingly sweet, in fact delicious with pleasant, oaky endtaste. Again the following March, I liked it enormously, recording an aroma of raspberry and cedar. Sweet again. 'Lovely fruit. Complete' Michael Broadbent M.W., November 2001
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Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
A useful vintage, for pleasant-enough drinking while giving more time for the wines from 1995, even from 1989, to mature further, and, of course, before the better, younger vintages. The hottest spring for half a century caused premature but prolonged budbreak and uneven conditions. Flowering was also very early-but this was also extended and uneven. May was cool and wet which caused coulure and millerandage, both reducing potential crop size. Hot and sunny for the second half of August and through the unusually early but prolonged harvest, late-picked Cabernet Sauvignon being particularly successful.
"First tasted alongside the 1996 at the château in September 1998: deep, fairly intense; a whiff of liquorice; surprisingly sweet, in fact delicious with pleasant, oaky endtaste. Again the following March, I liked it enormously, recording an aroma of raspberry and cedar. Sweet again. 'Lovely fruit. Complete' Michael Broadbent M.W., November 2001
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