Community Tasting Notes 12

• ankitmehra Likes this wine: 96 points

  February 9, 2024 - Four Decades of Left Bank Bordeaux with Friends (New York): It's hard not to be romantic about wine when you find a label-less Châtour Latour, are worried for about two months regarding whether it'll drink well or not, and then you wind up with a 96 point wine on the night when you do eventually open it. The first bottle of five on the night in a tasting that saw us cover four decades of Bordeaux wine (60s-90s) and this stole the show. The nose was an aromatic treat, packed with scents of spice, cedar, toasted coconut, grapefruit, tobacco and oregano. The tannins from the hot 1968 summer mellowed down to produce a palate that had incredible for its age as notes of redcurrants and crème de cassis were balanced out with peppercorn, meat and a tinge of leather across some reasonably good acidity. Just an absolute joy on the night and shows you the beauty of mature Bordeaux.

• yuti1225 Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 2, 2023 - Ruby red with slightly bricking. A classic Latour with cassis, blueberries, earthy tobacco, and pencil lead. The vivid palate is soft the fully matured, paring nicely with A5 Wagyu. The finish and overall depth aren’t comparable with top vintages, yet I would say this is a hedonist Bordeaux.

  Comment

• RayOB Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 30, 2020 - Drank in London
  Incredibly young and fresh with the linear graphite backbone you expect from Latour. Delicious

  Comment

• Sean_005 Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 30, 2020 - Obviously a very looked after bottle, good fill level. Had high expectations and it didn't disappoint.
  Opened up after 10-15mins. Fruit still present with more secondary notes of pencil shavings and graphite but not too overpowering which I found the 1968 Lafite to be. Also the 1968 Lafite was too austere.
  Really well composed showing a great body and a generous plush mouthfeel. I really quite enjoyed this and I'm not a big fan off old Bordeaux.

  Comment

• andtheodor wrote: flawed

  December 27, 2015 - Tasted blind. Roasted green chile, raw chocolate, stewy, cooked. No guess.

  Comment

Pro Reviews 1

Wine Definition

• Vintage 1968
• Type Red
• Producer Château Latour
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Grand Vin
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Pauillac

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
• In Cellars 83 (78%)
• Consumed 23 (22%)

Food Pairing

Who Likes This Wine

More About This Wine