Producer Notes
Chateau Latour produces the biggest and longest lived wines of any of the first growths of the Medoc.
The wines are 75-80% cabernet sauvignon and the best vintages will be absolutely fine after 100 years (particularly, we suspect, the rather odd 1964, which may well have suffered from an excess of chapitalisation as some vintages of the period do). Latour has never had an off-decade, and the wine is also probably the most reliable of all the first growths across all vintages, great and poor.
The estate also produces two ‘second’ wines: Les Forts de Latour, which is produced in similar quanitites to the grand vin, and ‘Pauillac de Latour’, which confusingly just says ‘Pauillac’ in large letters on the label, making it appear to be a generic wine from the appellation.
Some people clearly drink Chateau Latour only a few years old but such people clearly have higher concentration of currency than taste buds.
Delivery Notes
Please allow around 2 weeks for delivery of this wine.
Vintage Notes
2008 was a very good vintage in Pauillac
2008 was an above average, long-lived vintage in Bordeaux
Alternatives in Pauillac for 2008
2008 Chateau Pontet Canet: £110
2008 Chateau Lynch Bages: £125
2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild: £560
2008 Chateau Lafite Rothschild: £870
Other vintages of Chateau Latour
1964: £645
1970: £555
1982 (in Magnum): £5100
1982: £2300
1985: £630
1991: £665
1995 (in Magnum): £1350
1995: £660
1996: £725
1998: £565
2001: £570
2002: £565
2003: £1000
2004 (in Magnum): £1050
2005: £840
2009: £1150
2011: £610
Other wines from Chateau Latour
1999 Les Forts de Latour: £170
2002 Les Forts de Latour: £235
2003 Les Forts de Latour: £185
2004 Les Forts de Latour: £170
2005 Les Forts de Latour: £220
2008 Les Forts de Latour: £165
2009 Les Forts de Latour: £220
2012 Les Forts de Latour: £205
2013 Le Pauillac de Latour: £78
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