Community Tasting Note
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dream Likes this wine: 98 points
February 8, 2014 - A Weekend Of Aged First-Growths At Beau-Rivage in Geneva II: Incredible dark ruby color. With swirling and time in the glass, the earthy, nutty, cedar nose of Latour begins to show itself. On the palate, the breed and class this wine exudes is just amazing. With a texture like silken granite, this very young wine shows wonderful flavors of dark fruits, cedar and walnut with leathers and spices and an incredible depth that hints at the glories to come as this wine approaches maturity over the next 50 years! Deeply concentrated on the laser-like finish, this wine shows such precision and focus that virtually guarantees it will reach 100 pts. as soon as the secondary flavor development moves further along. Stunning for its depth, class and youthfulness. 98++ Geneva 2/14
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2 Comments
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seanellis777 commented:
8/2/14, 2:10 PM - I find it rather interesting that you refer a 53 year old bottle of what many consider the vintage of the century to be "young" and "youthful". How old does this wine need to be for you to consider it mature.
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dream commented:
8/3/14, 2:24 PM - Most wines would obviously be long gone after 53 years but not Chateau Latour. The only thing I can tell you is that I've been fortunate enough to taste Latour in '28, '29, '45 and '59 and the '61 tastes young compared to those vintages which show more complexity and softer tannins. As the somewhat stricter tannins of the '61 continue to slowly ameliorate, I believe the wine will show more complexity and be even more extraordinary than it is today.