1995 LES FORTS DE LATOUR 1995

Pauillac

Bordeaux - Second wine

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SoDivin rating

90-94 / 100

Very good

1995 LES FORTS DE LATOUR 1995

Pauillac

Bordeaux - Second wine

Condition Good

Stock : 13 bottles

234,00 € tax incl. 195,00 € tax excl.

Avis d'expert

90 / 100

Wine Spectator

(Web 2007)
Intense aromas of crushed blackberries and cassis. Full-bodied, with ripe fruit and velvety tannins. Long. Slightly one-dimensional. Needs to develop.'95'96 Bordeaux retrospective. Best after 2008.

89 / 100

Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate

(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. Anticipated maturity: 2001-2015.

Features Château informations

Features

Vintage	1995
Rating	90-94
Classification	Bordeaux - Second wine
Region	Bordeaux
Appellation	Pauillac
Colour	Red
Volume	0.75 l
Price	From 200 € to 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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