1970 | Chateau Latour | Les Forts de Latour Pauillac

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Red Wine: 1970 | Chateau Latour | Les Forts de Latour Pauillac

A historic find from the 1970 vintage, boasting earthy, truffled complexity, dark chocolate notes and rounded tannins.

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Producer: Chateau Latour

Ratings: WA | 90

Vintage: 1970

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

A historic find from the 1970 vintage, boasting earthy, truffled complexity, dark chocolate notes and rounded tannins.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 70 Les Forts de Latour has aged exceedingly well over forty years. A light, gravely, earthy, mulberry-scented bouquet that just lacks a little definition due to its rusticity. Medium-bodied on the palate, still retaining a pleasing degree of freshness with red-berried fruit: vestiges of raspberry and wild strawberry, although dominated by cigar box and leather. Smooth texture, quite corpulent, as if the merlot is in the driving seat rather than the Cabernet. Soft landing on the finish.

Producer Information

Chteau Latour is one of Bordeaux’s and the world’s most famous wine producers. It is situated in the southeast corner of the Pauillac commune on the border of Saint-Julien, in the Mdoc region. Rated as a First Growth in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification, it has become one of the most sought-after and expensive wine producers on the planet, and produces powerfully structured Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant wines capable of lasting many decades. The site has been occupied since 1331, with a fort and garrison to guard the estuary. Several smallholdings began to grow vines, and wine from the site gained recognition from Montaigne as early as the 16th Century. The original tower no longer exists; the famous tower featured on the label was designed as a pigeon roost and built around 1620. Latour’s development as a single property came with the beginning of a long unbroken period of connected family ownership, based around the de Sgur name, also associated with Mouton and Calon-Sgur. This began in 1670 and lasted 290 years although, after the French Revolution, Latour was divided up and not fully reunited until 1841. The chteau has been owned by French billionaire Franois Pinault since 1993 and falls under the umbrella of his holding company, Groupe Artemis. Other notable Artemis possessions include the likes of Burgundy’s Le Clos de Tart (in Morey-Saint-Denis) and Domaine d’Eugnie (in Vosne-Romane), Chteau-Grillet in Condrieu, and Napa Valley’s Araujo Estate.Typically for the region, Cabernet Sauvignon dominates in the vineyard, accounting for around 80 percent of plantings. Merlot makes up most of the remainder, and there are also small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.