1995 LES FORTS DE LATOUR 1995

(02-1998) Latour's second wine, Forts de Latour, is now one of the two or three finest second wines of Bordeaux (Bahans-Haut-Brion and the Clos du Marquis of Leoville Las-Cases are two other personal favorites). The terrific, dark rubypurple-colored 1995 possesses a sweet, jammy black fruit-scented nose intertwined with smoky minerals, earth, and spicy oak. The wine is surprisingly thick and rich in the mouth, with its glycerin and concentration of fruit largely concealing the moderate tannin. This excellent, sweet wine is less powerful, but more accessible than the 1996. 

Vinum Wine Magazine (04-1998) 

(09-2005) Tasted blind and not decanted. Dark red color, medium to good intensity. Slight evolution, brilliant. Discreet, fruity, ripe and fresh nose, minty. More merlot when shaken. The entry in mouth is very beautiful, immediately woven and juicy, but the wine passes quickly in the middle. It drinks a little. Average length, a little dry.

Tom Cannavan (01-2004) Deep purple/ruby colour. Rounded strawberry tinged nose. Still quite tight. Good grip with earthy tones. Dark herbs. More dense than the 94.

(02-2011) Dark crimson with a little age at the rim. Beefy, bloody notes on the nose. Quite open. Already quite soft and round on the front palate with fine tannins only on the very end. You could drink this now with food but there is still lots of life in it. More substantial than the 1996 Forts. Vigorous and powerful.