1978 CHÂTEAU LATOUR 1978

Pauillac

Médoc - 1er Cru Classé

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90-94 / 100

Very good

1978 CHÂTEAU LATOUR 1978

Pauillac

Médoc - 1er Cru Classé

Condition Good

Stock : 0 bottle

419,00 € tax incl. 349,17 € tax excl.

Avis d'expert

92 / 100

Wine Spectator

(08-2000)
Better than I anticipated. A sleek and racy wine.Ruby-amber color. Aromas of cedar, cigar box,tobacco, mint and mushrooms, with hints of redfruits, follow though to a medium body with finetannins and a long, silky finish. Excellent now,but a little more bottle age would only improveit.--Latour vertical. Best after 2005. (JS)

90 / 100

Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate

(06-2000)
Medium garnet-colored with moderate amber at the edge, the 1978 Latour offers a spicy, saddle leather, tobacco, dried herb, earthy nose with sweet fruit trying to poke through. Interestingly, new oak also makes an appearance in the flavors. Medium-bodied, elegant, and fragrant, but possibly beginning to dry out, this fully mature wine requires consumption over the next decade. Anticipated maturity: now-2010.

95 / 100

Jean-Marc Quarin

(02-2003) Dark red. Good intensity. Slight evolution. Nose. Net. Average intensity. Fruity. End. Ripe. Cedar. Complex. Creamy. Restlessness. Even better. Very complex. Ripe and fresh. Ink. Sweet attack, developing on a juicy and fat body, very aromatic and very tasty. Very slow tannic evolution on a slightly smoked complex taste. Beautiful aromatic finish. And even if the intensity of the body falls a little in the finish, the tannin grain is exemplary, without hardness, and accompanied by beautiful aromas.

18.5/20

Jancis Robinson

(12-2016) Mid blackish ruby with a broad pale rim. Serious stuff on the nose! Wonderfully complex with mineral layers and some dried herbs. Still very vigorous. Beautiful balance and intensity. Tasted after two younger top Margauxs, this really shows the staying power of Pauillac in general and Latour in particular. Lightly gritty (I think I got the dregs) and very definitely dry. Still a little, but not excessive, tannin on the end. Long and sore throat-soothing.

Features Château informations

Features

Vintage	1978
Rating	90-94
Classification	Médoc - 1er Cru Classé
Region	Bordeaux
Appellation	Pauillac
Colour	Red
Volume	0.75 l
Price	More than 300 €
Château	Latour
Country	France

Château informations

Latour

Château Latour is ranked Premier Cru Classé in the Official Classification created in 1855.

There are 2 other Châteaux in the Pauillac appellation which also benefit from the prestigious title of 1er Cru Classé: Lafite Rothschild and Mouton Rothschild.

Latour is the epitome of excellence in good years and bad ones. Among the greatest vintages, the most beautiful achievements of the chateau: 1920, 1929, 1949, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1970, 1982, 1990, 2000.

Created around 1680, Château Latour's vineyard is one of the oldest in the Médoc. At the heart of the estate, the main parcel, called "l'Enclos", is made up of 47 hectares of old vines that are preciously maintained, because only they are able to give birth to the "Grand Vin". The 18 hectares of exterior plots, the vines less than 10 years old and the possibly downgraded cuvées produce the second wine of the estate, "Les Forts de Latour". The wine of Château Latour is an example of regularity regardless of the quality of the vintage. Firm, tannic and concentrated in its youth ...

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