Chateau Latour, Pauillac, 1996

Name: Chateau Latour, Pauillac, 1996
Brand: Private
SKU: NYC-[PVT]-PVT-MSCELL-022626-CLP1996-ROW13-BOX 1,2
Price: 799.00 USD
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Red Wine from Bordeaux, France

by Chateau Latour

$799.00

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The 1996 Latour is a masterclass in Pauillac structure, a wine defined by late September's cooler weather that preserved essential acidity in Latour's Cabernet-heavy blend. Medium to deep garnet with profound earthy, meaty, gamey aromatics and hints of crème de cassis, this wine is packed with muscular fruit and a firm backbone. One of the most sought-after Bordeaux of the 1990s, it displays the potential for 50-75 years of evolution. A Premier Grand Cru at its zenith.

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Antonio Galloni

94 points

"The 1996 Latour is a wine that I often find overrated and did not achieve everything that might have been possible in this favourable growing season. That said, this might well be the best of around two dozen bottles I have encountered over the years. As usual, the 1996 is decidedly austere at first, standoffish, looks down its nose at you. Yet it coalesces with time and develops engaging cedar-scented black fruit tinged with pencil box and a touch of iris with time. The palate (again) is a little muted at first but it soon found its voice and evolved very fine tannin allied with a crisp line of acidity. It is not quite as demonstrative as it was even just a couple of years ago, gained some detail and perhaps it will continue to meliorate. Very fine, very fine indeed - but not a patch of say, the Château Margaux or perhaps even Léoville Las Cases." —Neal Martin

Robert Parker

95 points

"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." —William Kelley

Jancis Robinson

18 points

"Nose wonderful, complex and open, developed yet youthful, mature damp earth and charcoal hints, dark blackcurrant fruit, cedar wood with cranberry and ripe black cherry, very complex and deep, just starting to open up. Excellent." —Jancis Robinson MW

More about Chateau Latour

Wine Details

Grape Variety

Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage

1996
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Traditional
Sweetness

Dry

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Prime beef, wild venison, aged lamb, truffle-driven dishes, mushroom preparations, bone marrow.

Tasting Profile

Aromatics: earthy, meaty, gamey, blueberry preserves, crème de cassis, pencil shavings. Body: full. Acidity: tension, complexity. Tannins: firm, ripe, grainy. Finish: epically long.