My first encounter with this legend. Tasted double blind. This bottle was complex, superbly balanced and offered a lot of drinking pleasure, despite still showing young. However, this bottle in this setting didn’t have the je-ne-sais-qua-factor you would expect from a legend and that ultra-classic Latour profile, which in my head usually defines what Bordeaux is or should be. Still, this was a very good wine and has decades to go.
TN: Expressive, intense nose with lots of minerality, red and dark fruit, some minty/eucalyptus notes, hints of tobacco. Elegant, aromatically balanced, inviting. Same flavor profile with more layers of minerality on the palate, as well as some spices. Hardly any tertiary aromas. Quite complex and well-defined. Good attack and great mid-palate weight. Fine, elegant structure with a wall of fine tannins, perfectly integrated medium+ acidity, a fine/melty texture and an overall good balance.
Decanted: decanted for 2h, consumed out of the bottle 2h later. The person bringing the wine said that the wine was better without the decant.
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Initial nose was a bit off putting. I allowed the wine to open up in a decanter for about an hour. The wine just needed to breath. Excellent bottle. Drinking well now. This particular bottle did not have the complexity in the tertiary notes compared to Lafitte of the same year. I realize this observation could be attributed to bottle variability and I also do not have other experiences with this particular vintage.
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A very fine ‘82 Bordeaux but does not reach the usual heights of this contender for wine of the vintage. Nevertheless it is softly fragrant. Very mature. Not as ripe or classic as it can be. Possibly suboptimal storage at some point although the bottle looked good with a neck joint level and good color.
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Magical wine and a dream to try arguably the greatest wine from a mythical vintage. Still full of life. Black fruit and some tertiary characteristics. It has everything and will go on for another 50 years. If you can get your hands on a perfectly stored bottle, don’t miss this.
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not blind For me close to his peak. Still black currant but in the same way some secondary and tertiary aromas. No hurry. With Cheval Blanc my favourite 82. 99
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I was concerned this bottle, a recent purchase from K&L Auction, was fake. The low-mid neck fill was (barely) believable. But the capsule was so bright and clean it looked like it was placed yesterday. The label too was very clean. The cork came out easily and firmly in one piece and was saturated to about one fourth yet was stamped correctly. But on tasting there was no doubt that this was simply a fabulously well preserved bottle with the tell-tale gravely fragrance and firm and juicy black fruit with a hint of fresh thyme that is Latour. Clearly at its majestic peak from perfectly stored bottles such as this.
Drank with JF & GG at Californos. Best bottle of 3. Really opened up with an hour decant. In perfect condition and really drinking beautifully. Has several decades of potential. Probably slighted it a point… maybe a 99!
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50th Birthday Bash: 10 Vintage Vertical of Latour: This bottle was certified ex-Chateau release and released in 2022. Therefore, it had perfect provenance. This was clearly my #2 WOTN only behind the 1945. Unbelievable nose of utter goodness. This tastes like a 10 year old Latour, not a 40 year old Latour. It is a tightly wound ball of energy that explodes in the glass all the way through the persistent veracious finish. My fourth time tasting this vintage of Latour and thankfully 2nd time this year alone. This is a wine for the ages.
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What a beautiful nose on a beautiful wine! Floral and vibrant, couldn’t tell was in bottle for 41 years. Wine began to come on to its own after 4 hours. Would have wanted to decant and taste throughout day! Forest floor and earth beginning to come out. Drinking well now but still has years to go!
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Nothing more to add to the enormous body of notes on this wine. I have had it 4x in the last month and it’s remarkable. Everything you would imagine from a perfectly mature Bordeaux.
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What a lovely experience. We had saved this bottle to drink for a special occasion and it turned out that drinking it was the special occasion - in celebration of many good things. The wine appears mature but not four decades. A bit of orangeish around the rim - not clean and clear, somewhat translucent but with a dark core carrying uniform coloring. Truly gorgeous. The nose is compelling. The minerality comes across as Hawaiian red dirt. Then that gives way fairly quickly to menthol, spicy fruit compote, then a bright red fruit smell. Cherry or currant it seems. Sweet red fruit, whatever it is. Finally, after staying with it for a while there’s a compelling earthiness with a bit of cedar. Amazingly, the red fruit remains all the way to the end and lingers. One of those wines you really want to drink but don’t want to because it smells so good. Now it’s time to taste. A very manly, masculine wine - assertive and even muscular but regal, with exceptional depth and concentration. The tannins are initially surprising - assertive at age 41. The mouth is somewhat calm, with plush red currant and cherry and a compelling sensuality but then, after swallowing, the wine just blows up. Bright red cherry and quince. A lack of sweetness with the finest tannins I’ve ever experienced. The fruit and cedar, along with fine tannins, carries this wine through a 60 second plus finish which is truly incredible. When you get way down toward the end, two tertiary characteristics become prominent - pipe tobacco and tar. The most compelling thing on the finish is this gorgeous black tarriness. The entire experience was described best by my friend who said, in her perfect female way, “this wine is like a slow, close dance.” Indeed.
Incredible wine. Still very young with a lot of years ahead of it. Nose not overly expressive but rather refined and elegant. Typical Pauillac. Signature Bordeaux.
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Out of the thousands of Bordeaux wine I have had, the 1982 Latour stands as one of the best I have had. Taking 3-5 hours to open up, and then holding until the next day, this wine will continue to evolve throughout my lifetime. A glorious drink, a privilege.
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A spell-binding example of the most, consistently stunning wine from the legendary 82 vintage. Everything here is on target, in-place and balanced. There is a wall of ripe, regal, powerful, black and red fruits with a stately air of refinement and aristocracy that coat and fill your palate, leaving with a seamless, 60-second, plus finish. Drink from 2023-2060.
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Pulled the cork and slo-iced in the bottle for 21/2 hrs.. Slight bricking on the rim, core is dark burgundy color . Nose of old Bdx and cedar aromas, slight TCA smell but it blew off with time. Sweet red and blue fruit flavors. Wine has a light mouth feel, good fruit sweetness on the finish and has persistent length.
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Tasted blind, this win had a deep red center with red/orange rims. The medium+ intensity nose developed with air to show gravel, black cherries, plums, and some maple syrup.
In the mouth, this wine was ripe with beautiful balance, light tanin, and a long, serious finish.
While starting to drink well, this showed the potential to continued to develop over the next 10+ years. It should add a couple points with time.
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Some Bordeaux (Chicago, IL): Of the 1982s, this showed the youngest and freshest. A very muscular profile, with a good core of fruit underpinning the structure. Impressive freshness for a 1982; it feels like this actually improved in the glass, and well-kept bottles of this should still be able to benefit from cellar time.
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(Blind tasting) Full, mature and immediately evident Pauillac-like nose. Sweet, succulent and at the same time cool black currant. Savoury notes of herbs. Cedar and sweet tobacco. Multi-layered. But - a disturbing, old-school, brett character detracts. Medium-fullish, fullish palate. Mature and mighty. Very balanced. Surprisingly elegant. Very polished. Long, long finish and freshness. Ripe, dense black currant fruit. Cedar, sweet tobacco and barnyard (brett). A privilege to taste such a legendary wine. The maturity is perfect, the structure is perfect, but the strong old-school brett character detracts and subtracts a point or two in my book.
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An excellent bottle although not near the absolute heights this wine can reach. Medium garnet, orange rim verging on brown. Excellent density, texture and concentration. Subdued tannins, just the right amount of acidity. Full into its secondary stage but the blackberry core is easily discernible. Interestingly, this bottle, sourced a few years ago from Heritage auction showed far better than a comparison bottle purchased on release and perfectly stored. That bottle was thin and astringent without detectable fruit.
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blind, tasting together with CB, Lafite and Margaux
For everyone the undisputed winner. Powerful, still fruit but cedar wood, tobacco, and Paulliac typical pencil notes. Beginning to reach his peak. Decanted for 2 hours. There was a glas left for the next day. Still firm and sublime. No hurry. 99
Margaux The most balanced one but compared to Latour not the length and power. Close to his peak. For me third in range. 96
Cheval Blanc The first we tried, I was sure it is not CB, because I missed the pepper. Good bottle, but I had it better. My second place. It felt really young. 97
Lafite In between Latour and Margaux. Not so powerful, not so elegant. I had the Lafite in better shape. It feels to decline in his performance. We will see what the next bottle will show. 95
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What an incredibly concentrated nose of mine de crayon, dark cold fruit, charbon noir… The taste is Pauillac style, masculine, refined tannins, black fruit, cepes de Bordeaux
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Latour, Latour, Latour (WineWatch, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): So disappointing; the ‘82 did not show up. Most of us expected it to be Wine of the Night but alas it was not to be. It’s just this bottle though since 1982 Latour is usually reliable and a strong candidate for wine of the vintage. This one was slightly flat and lacked life and natural sweetness.
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The first pour was blind next to the 1982 Mouton. Deep purple with limited bricking. The nose had hints of charcoal. The palate quickly transformed with air to strawberries, walnut, green pepper, leather and more strawberry on the 15-20 second finish. Outstanding if only just bested by the Mouton, but in a better place than the 1961 Latour the host had opened in a prior tasting (LOTB 96/100). 97/100
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This could be the wine of the vintage. At 40, that is more than long enough for this stunning wine really stand out from the pack. The incredible volume, depth of flavor, concentration, power, and regal bearing must be tasted to believe and understand. The waves of fruit never stop developing. The more than 60-second, and the seamless finish leaves you speechless. Drink from 2022-2050.
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Profound, mind blowing, nose so heady one doesn’t want to drink the wine! I don’t think I’ve had a wine that comes close to this. No words! Perfect in every sense. Finish so long I want to eat my wine glass.
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I felt bad drinking this next to 86 Rayas and 02 CLB La Romanee (not to mention all the other great Burgs from the night). Everyone’s palate was tuned in one direction and this turned us in another, and not in a way we desired. Of all the Reds, this was touched the least at the table. Pondered by itself, it’s a gorgeous wine notes of leather, wood, a little flint, long fruits. It is deep in color and still reasonably tight. A shame this profile, for us 6, drew us in the least
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Bordeaux at its best….and Bordeaux is not my style Not hard to see why Robert Parker gave 100/100. Still huge fruit, great texture and a very long finish. Wonderful wine to enjoy with glorious eye fillet steak mignon, red wine jus, potatoe dauphinois and greens.
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Not unexpectedly, the nose is much more giving out of this 750 than a recently-tasted magnum, showing off rich, redcurrant and raspberry fruit with walnut, cedar, allspice, and leather complements, developing into a near-perfect, delectable perfume. Dare I say it's even better on the palate and, as much as this *is* muscular, it's shockingly plush for Latour. This expands and expands in the mouth, broad and expansive, fanning out gloriously - this textural attribute is remarkable and is worth attention. As cerebral a wine as this is, it's disarmingly gulpable!
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Imperious. As good as any I have had. Soaring aromatics, a melange of red and black fruits, pencil shavings and some spice. Incredible length, intense, rich and powerful, flourishing at the 2 hour mark. Is lightening marginally in colour, a medium red now as it marks 40 years of age. The pinnacle of wine.
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From magnum, this still seems quite youthful. Tasted just as the cork was pulled and then again about 2 hours later, this is quiet on the nose but reveals an impactful, broad palate with all the strength expected from Latour and a wonderful red fruit, beef blood, old leather character that reminded me in a way of the 1964. But with only small tastes at 2 different time points, I can't claim to have really understood the 82 Latour or all that it is capable of achieving.
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Spices, sandalwood, medium body, a little spicy, old Bordeaux notes to it, nice nose, slightly exotic enticing aromas, but a bit dried out on the palate. Did not wow anyone, quite average on ranked 2nd to last with a lot of great wines in the lineup. Guessed 2000 Mouton. Blind Dirty Dozen TOC dinner at La Paella
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Stood it up the day prior. Carefully popped in the morning to check then poured into small decanter in the evening and served. Outstanding, fully developed, consistent with past notes. Finish went on forever. Absolute heaven.
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Sleek and only beginning to hit first peak. Rich, with real depth and bitterness of mocha and leather. It’s still purple and the tannins are fat enough to further evolve without softening.
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not blind, Double Magnum Our "table wine". Thanks to the donor. For this size a bit too evolved but in great shape and now great to drink. I guess from a better stored bottle decades ahead. Staring to have tertiary aromas but still black currant. 97-98
A Ferrari compared to the Cheval’s Corvette. Lean with great structure at first and we definitely missed not decanting this earlier. I thought it opened up at the very end of the night and actually passed the Cheval in quality. Deep and dark red fruits with the classic “black earth” flavors of Latour just beginning to show up. The finish was so regal with superb grip and plenty of powerful but smooth tannins and I found an unreal complexity lurking just under the surface. Make no mistake that perfectly stored bottles of this are still youthful and I think greater things await this wine in time. At The Grill, NYC. 97+
Super Bowl 2022 (Alpharetta, GA): Maroon core with thin rim; great nose, so floral, Margaux?, linear red cherry, currant, boxwood, just entering a secondary stage, pure noble and special just a little straightforward right now, fresh, lifted and beautiful, tannins are fairly relaxed; seems to be entering a good spot, lots of harmony and joy to be found here; a much younger example of a wine that I have put in my top 3 Bordeaux ever, loved this wine but hard to put it above the '78 HB because it just wasn't as ready.
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Super Bowl 2022 (Alpharetta, GA): Tasted double blind. Best nose of the line up. I could smell it all night long. Flowers & lilacs, more red than black fruit, beautiful & refined. Very left bank, but it is still amazingly youthful. I wrote down '96 Margaux. I was blown away when the wine was revealed as an '82 Latour. It is always a treat to taste this vintage of Latour. This was only the third time I've had it in my lifetime.
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Austin 3-star food + wine; 1/30/2022-1/31/2022 (Our residence, Austin, TX): Red wine of a night that included 1959 and 1986 Lafite, 2009 Petrus, 2006 Masseto, 1974 Heitz Martha's Vineyard, 1976 DRC La Tache, and another two dozen similar wines. This was one of the two best Bordeaux I've ever tried. Truly "perfect" for me. Can't imagine better.
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Having stored this one bottle for over 30 years and decided to open it with my wife, for my 60th, on 'corkage' at a good London restaurant- Medlar, thanks to them. I was nervous as bottle variation for a close to 40year old wine, lower neck, is realistic, though I am a refrigeration engineer:). I needn't have worried, the cork was great, the first sip promised great things, 40mins later served with saddle of venison it was wonderful, still with a dark core, dark fruits, cassis, cigar box and the balance of fruit and acidity on the palate was perfect, with easily a minute long finish. I think it is starting a 10-15yr long plateau, unless ex-chateau (20yr), Can it evolve further, I am not a regular first growth drinker, I doubt it, I just don't see the point, this is wonderful now enjoy it, especially if you only have one! This has Latour power compared to another 100 point wonder- 82 Pichon Lalande, which on drinking 4 years ago had supreme elegance.
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Top shoulder fill, saturated cork with seepage under capsule and difficult to remove. Popped and poured into decanter and served. One key here was to stand the bottle up the day prior to let all the fine sediment settle to the bottom, then carefully pour. Nose was nice but a bit weaker than previous bottles. Fully mature palate was great for a few hours evolving slightly. Definitely some bottle variance at this age especially for those with unknown storage history.
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Top shoulder fill. Lots of dark, rich fruit, nice structure. I have never had this vintage Latour before but I just don’t think this was a perfect bottle, nothing was clearly wrong with it, but I wasn’t blown away. Not nearly as good as some other bottles of 82’ Bordeaux I’ve had quite recently (Mouton, Mission HB, Cheval Blanc, specifically) I’ve had recently, enough so that I think this was a bottle variation problem as I expected this to be at least on the same level as those wines. Still very good, but merely very good and not excellent.
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For me, the star of the show of the birthday party dinner and a reassuringly consistent performance of the wine of the vintage. Surprisingly brown rim on the decant but the body of the wine is a very healthy deep ruby. It’s perfectly mature now. This is a medium full Latour that wins points as much for its graceful beauty as its concentration. The texture is silky for a Bordeaux of its size and this bottle at least seems more St. Julien than Pauiilac. Obviously it will last but there’s no reason to wait any longer.
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Fabulous nose of mine de crayon, black fruit, cedar wood… The tannins are perfecly integrated, still loads of fruit and not yet at its peak… Fabulous wine!!
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Double decanted before serving. Although it is not the best showing of its true class, it still handily beat all the other 82 first growth tonight. It has that Latour elegance that makes it easy to like, but just missing that extra vibrancy to blow you away for its pedigree.
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Purchased on release and stored in a cold cellar. Mid shoulder fill with some corrosion on the capsule. Opened and decanted but served rather quickly from there. Put simply, this is the finest Bordeaux, and by extension red wine that I’ve ever tasted. It is also the first wine I've ever scored 100 and in my own framework, the last of the first growths to taste.
Deeply pitched red to black in the glass. The nose is redolent with black currant, anise, scorched earth and pressed violets. There is some tobacco as well. You have such a hefty weight of pate de fruits on the palate and a finish that lingers and expands. The tannins are resolved but the wine has such raw substance that it’s easy to imaging it developing properly for another decade or two before anything begins to fade. I would say it is beginning to peak now if this bottle is representative. Wow. A towering wine if one can excuse the double entendre.
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Epic Bordeaux for an Epic Birthday!; 9/1/2021-9/12/2021 (Paris & Bordeaux): Interesting that the last time I also got the barnyard. For many this was the WOTN but I just couldn't get past that. Not that it's a flavor I don't like, but I expect it more from Rhone than Bordeaux and it doesn't always allow other flavors to express so much. A nice wine but missing the panache of the '71.
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If a wine were a candidate for 101 Pts, this bottle is a clear candidate. Holy FK! I was blown away by the depth, clarity, length and complexity here. The wine has everything you could hope for. A riveting nose, lush, opulent, polished, refined texture and a finish that hits and crosses the 60 second mark.
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A Multi Birthday Celebration (Tocco - Winnetka IL): Wonderful aromas with black cherry, cigarbox, clove, earth and cassis hints. similar flavors with good balance and nuance, coming across as very elegant, but just moderately powerful. Served alongside the 1990, this 1982 probably suffered from the comparison with the more intense '90.
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Decanted, drank over a period of 4hours. Very masculine. A lot of cigarr box, damp earth and pencil lead. Some roses as well but on the whole not very floral. An imposing wine. Aftertaste is stupendous. Bottle and cork in great shape and sure quality is the very best but not sure this would fare well another 80 years as the drinking window in CT suggests.
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Top shoulder fill, very saturated cork with seepage under capsule. Carefully removed cork, nose seemed nice so put in a different cork and later in the day poured into decanter and served. Significant sediment in bottle. Palate was sort of nice but masked by a slight sour flavor so obviously flawed, but still drinkable, although nothing like a typical Latour. Oh well can't win them all. No point to rate this one.
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Decanted for 60 mins before serving. Cassis, tobacco, leather, earth and pine on the nose. Regal and layered palate with good weight and complexity. Not the most flamboyant 82 Latour. Perhaps it just needs a little more time in the decanter.
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ullage low-mid neck; cork in terrific shape, soaked barely 1/3 & tight; decanted 1 hour; deep ruby, minimal lightening; cedar, graphite, minted cherry, herbaceous earth; persistent & intense, yet still comely; wonderful dusty fruit remains long on the decidedly solid finish.
amongst the remaining cache of anniversary wines purchased on release, many of which were consumed too soon; glad we could share them, tho & they remain a testimony to durability & excellence, & the remarkable woman who loved them.
Decanted for half an hour, just the right time it needed to breath and soften. Deep ruby in the glass (still!). The nose is a journey through a never-ending spectrum of aromas. Palate is dangerously appealing. Shows a ton of complexity, but the balance is just a masterpiece for itself. I could keep drinking this forever. Easily the best Bordeaux I've tried to date. Wow.
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Decanted for 2 hours. Pencil and lead shavings mixed with grassy and earthy aromas. Secondary characteristics of liquorice and cassis. Perfectly integrated acidity and tannins with slightly sweet taste of chocolate on the palate. Finish could have been longer but this is just beautiful. Superb.
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Medium garnet. On the nose, started with a blast of savoury spices, and then redcurrants and then a greyish smoky scent. Vibrant ripe cherry, strawberry, and cassis on the palate, and perfectly balanced with pepper and clove spices, and a fresh minty grassy feel. The charred smoky and graphite depth emerges towards the back, and together with the fruits, led to a complex finish which lasted at least 5 minutes! To date, easily the best representation of Bordeaux I had come across
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This was the star - and was always going to be. Soaring aromatics on opening, which only increased after 2 hours in a decanter. Still deep, rich fruit, everything in balance, persistent finish. An impeccable wine, with a couple of decades in front of it. Could drink this all night.
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39th wedding anniversary. The ultimate lockdown bottle for 2? Dug for victory to get crumbling cork out/in but wine in excellent condition. 90min aerated decant through a fine filter to keep cork fragments away. Deep roasted beefblood red with a touch of browning edges and micro meniscus. Wonderful aromas of focussed brûlée dark berries, ripe cherry and smoke carried forward to the palate. Strap. Lots of integrated dry spice, liquorice, earth, charred oak and a tad of truffle with perfect integrated acidity. Only a (relatively) modest length prevents a higher mark. Fully ready but should be good for another decade or so based on this bottle - say 50yrs from vintage.
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Brief decant initially. Looked a touch browner at the edge than I remembered, but the wine coalesced in the decanter and remains a rock solid red/purple at the core. Burst out of the glass, stunning aromatics, reminded me a little of Mouton, lots of blueberries and spice. It’s an imperious wine though, building power over 4-5 hours, before settling. Great length, sweet fruit, impeccable balance, tannins in the background but very refined. Just lacked that final bit of length to score higher. Has decades to go though.
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This bottle, purchased decades ago with low neck ullage, was outstanding once again even if not quite up to the level of the very best examples. There’s a tinge of brown at the rim, which I have never seen before in ‘82 Latour. The balance is superb, the persistence is extraordinary, the bouquet is pleasing. It even seems a bit young on the palate but that might be a generous interpretation of the rather straightforward blackberry and dark raspberry fruit. Tannins are well integrated, acidity is excellent. It gets better as it sits in the glass. It’s wonderful to be sure but not obviously Pauillac and lacks some of that indescribable flair that makes a wine truly dazzling. Maybe it needs even more time from well preserved bottles like this one.
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Clearly in contention for wine of the vintage, the nose, with its roasted deep red and black fruits comes along with a plethora of scents headed by smoke, tobacco, spice, cedar chest and forest leaf. Rich, full-bodied, powerful and intense, the wine perfectly meshes its power with a refined, regal elegance that never seems to quit.
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PNP. In perfect condition. Pure black cherry character, dried fig, cedar/forest, oyster mushroom, white pepper, leather. Silty tannins, nice acid, long finish, gained richness and power as it opened up. A very complete wine.
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Dog Year Wines (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): Oh wow. A pristine bottle, showing rather youthful at almost 40 years of age, this was a left-bank Bordeaux par excellence. What a nose this had. Classic, classic Pauillac, with lovely draws of cassis and sweet black cherries, then earth and graphite and fragrant wafts tobacco spice. I just loved this. The palate was pure Latour - power, strength and nobility, with a superb structure of fine velvety tannins and perfectly integrated acidty wound around a tremendously pure core of cassis and black cherries, then earth, and mineral, graphite and a little sprinkle of tobacco spice - all wonderfully integrated into a perfect, warmly delicious whole. This almost brought tears to my eyes. As perfect a left-bank as one could ask for. What a finish too - long, effortless, noble, with a beautiful pull of cassis and spice that just refused to quit. Wow. Absolutely wonderful - this was surely one of the greatest Bordeaux wines I have ever had.
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Top shoulder fill and soggy cork with obvious seepage. Popped in the morning to check and it seemed ready so corked back up for later. 7 hours later poured into small decanter and served immediately. Amazing Bordeaux! Ready to go from the start. Very nice nose and incredible fruit. Finish went on forever. Absolute heaven for 3 hours until gone.
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Slow ox 8 hours, which seems to be great for this wine. Drunk with dinner with an 86 Lafite Blood red color with nice color gradient to light red edge. Looks much younger than it is. Leather, mushrooms, truffle, cherry. Beautiful nose, very aromatic. Tannins seem to be holding well, but not overbearing. Second transition hint of mint, some green flavors, smoke, cedar, and a little spiciness. Mouthfeel is pure silk. Amazing balance in this wine. So perfumie, third transition is wet soil, forrest floor some cranberry Parmesan cheese and some dusty leather boot, So many great transitions. Amazing wine. Crushed the Lafite.
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[Same as last, this is a half bottle] A much better showing than last. Complexed nose with cooked blackberry, mushroom, cigar and exotic spices. The palate is consistent with the nose, layered and smooth. The finish goes on and on in the mouth. What a wine!
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Jamming with Stu (Dune, Fort Lauderdale): Wow, what great depth, intensity, and complexity, both on the nose and the palate. Dark ripe fruits, cassis, and cherry with some smoky cedary notes. Fascinatingly complex nose. Full bodied, rich ripe layered fruit and complex undernotes of leather, earth, and hints of tar. Long finish with lingering complexity. One of those rare wines where a day later I can close my eyes and experience it all over again. My WOTN, many others at the table felt similarly.
To rank the 82 firsts on this night, I’d say Latour Mouton Haut Brion Lafite Margaux With all but the Margaux killer wines.
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It’s not every day I get to compare all five 1982 First Growths. Yet again on my scorecard and most of the tasters, the Latour was the “winner” although the fabulous Mouton was at virtually the same level. This bottle, purchased on release, showed incredibly young. Bursting with dark berry fruit, red and black licorice, truffle and earth was practically sweet, so intense was it. Tannins are strong and completely integrated, acidity is just right. A real triumph with a great future still.
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This is a half bottle. The red fruit didn't come out until 45 mins later. The wine has great depth and clarity, well balanced. A beautiful wine.
On the other side, probably because of the format size, I can see the reminder of the fruit fades away quickly. I will drinking all of my half bottles in the next 2 years.
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Nez clairement bordelais, subtil notes de cigare, âgé mais tellement suave. La bouche est en dentelle, elle me faisait penser à un Château Margaux, de toute évidence c’est un très grand vin et un premier crû, dis-je avant dévoilement. La plénitude et la finesse de la finale sont exceptionnelles. Rien ne dépasse, tout est si facile, élégant et délicieux. J’aurais misé sur un 96! Grand vin, mon vin de l'année jusqu'ici. 97 pts
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Absolutely stunning from start to finish. Easily one of the best wines ever made in existence. Dark purple core of graphite, cedar, leather, violets, eucalyptus and black currants on the nose. Intense yet elegant with an insanely long 60+ second finish.
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Achim's Magnum Tasting 2017 (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): Da zunächst über Kork diskutiert wurde, kam der Wein in die Karaffe. Drei Stunden später zwar kein klarer Kork, aber da die Flasche war nicht astrein war, keine Bewertung. Schade, hatte ihn schon paarmal in Perfektion genießen dürfen. Magnum. No rating
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The 1982 Latour was a little bit wobbly out of the blocks, and I immediately concluded that I had encountered better bottles. But from that point on it just got better and better. Less brooding and backward than other bottles I have encountered it really hit its stride. Cedar, red and black fruits, dense, velvety texture, but at the same time tensile, precise, dense, seamless. The tertiary notes started to come through : autumn leaves, truffle, earth, loam walnuts. Background black and red fruits, multi-layered with an endless finish. Cigar box, cigar wrapper, cool-fruited, regal. A (la)tour de force. One of the greatest wines of the twentieth century.
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1982 Bordeaux Tasting (A collector's home): Wine D Groups #2, My #2 Deep, dark brooding nose showing cedar, anise, black currants and leather. The palate is powerful, tannic and still quite youthful. Graceful and powerful waves of perfectly ripe black fruits wrapped in a velvety texture and long finish. Really special and I suspect in a few years will show better than the 82 Petrus tasted alongside it.
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sdr's bottle. The best wine of the night. A nearly flawless wine. The nose was a knockout, with both intensity and complexity. Lots of black currant, cedar, eucalyptus, violets, olive, and sous bois. This wine was perhaps even better on the palate, with its balance and concentration. The structure is intact, with its soft and round tannins. An incredibly long finish with lots of acidic freshness. Has this wine peaked yet? How much better can it get? I wouldn't be surprised if this got even better in the upcoming years.
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Completely different from the previous bottle but equally compelling. Sensational über-classic Latour and perfectly mature. Vestiges only of black fruit, the wine is tense, precise and concentrated with minerals and a panoply of secondary and tertiary aromas. Autumnal flavors of olive tapenade and truffle complement the thick black currant. Endlessly interesting and complex. The color is advanced on this bottle though so I hope it can maintain its equilibrium for years to come.
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This bottle was surprisingly open for business although this remains a massive, multi-layered Latour who's best days are clearly ahead. Still, the depth of concentrated black fruits are breathtaking and it's also showing classic notes of walnuts, cedar and just the sweetest Latour earth. The finish is very complex even decadent with waves of dark spices and some fecal things but not in a bad way. 96+ From Kovacs cellar at Ralph, Quogue, NY.
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Mahogany with opaque core. The bouquet is magnificent. There is an iconic aged cabernet aroma with ground coffee but so much more. Herbs,spice,manure,earth,tobacco,cigar box,camphor, dark chocolate,floral notes, roses,mushrooms, iodine,shoe polish,menthol and old oak. It is an aged bouquet. The palate is full-bodied. Perfectly balanced and integrated. Firm but soft tannins. Flavours reflect the bouquet but there are reminders of its youth with blackcurrant, blueberries, cherries, raspberry and mint, There are charcoal and mineral flavours. The length is never-ending. There is a sense of depth of nature and a calmness yet powerful as well. This wine has a unique personality. Absolutely wonderful. Serving temperature 14 degrees C. Best from 25 minutes from opening to 90 minutes when finished. Riedel Bordeaux glass.NS
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A private dinner (Restaurant Bak, Amsterdam, NL): This shows the feminine and fragrant side of Latour, elegant, silky and refined, lifted and floral, velvety tannins still provide grip, very long and very delicious. Perhaps not as ethereal and refined as the bottle tasted in 2009, but still hugely impressive.
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Easily the wine of the night for me. Concentrated dark fruit but with Latour's signature notes on full display. Lots of tobacco, graphite, and cedar. Latour's magic is just how pronounced those savory notes can become without the wine drying out at all. This has the structure to hold up for many more years, but it is stunning right now.
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Acker Auction - June 2018 (Laduree NYC W Broadway): This is also a bit tight and slightly closed although a bit more expressive than the '86 Lafite from right before. It's barnyard funk on the nose all the way and then mostly black fruit jumping out of the glass. A touch of the barnyard at the end. Nice wine.
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Latour Big Vintages (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): Similar to 70 but much younger, rougher and mightier, awesome tannin structure, cassis, graphite, pencil, dense, concentrated. you still have the feeling it is not balanced. give him at least 10 more years. 98+
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Stunning from top to bottom, and from start to finish, this is a strong contender for wine of the vintage. With mouth coating layers of dark red fruits, tobacco, cigar wrapper, cedar wood and smoked earth aromatics, the wine kicks off with all the right stuff. But it is on the palate where the wine is really on full display. Intensity, length and regal in character, there is a firmness to the structure along with elegance and formality in the finish, which by the way must stick with you for 60 seconds! Thank God I have friends that can afford this. Because it really is a benchmark wine that at close to 30 years of age is almost in the right place for prime time drinking. Well stored bottles should offer pleasure until 2082!
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1982 Bordeaux Horizontal (Bar Boulud): This nose has bright red cherry and ripe blackberry fruit, aromatically expressive and showy, and quite opulent. On the palate this has bold red and black fruit upfront and then softens nicely mid palate. Guessed Lafite and it was Latour. Pleasantly surprised by how approachable and showy this was. The classic Latour brawn is still evident, but this is quite an integrated and expressive example tonight.
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Latour vs. Mouton Mini-Vertical (3030 Ocean, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): Hugh’s bottle, purchased on release. Yes, ‘82 Latour is a perfect wine, jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Before you raise the glass to your mouth, the beguiling perfume of black currant, cassis, violet and rose assaults you. You fear the flavor will not live up to the incredible aroma, but you have worried for naught. Perfectly spherical, juicy, majorly fruity yet framed by perfect silky tannins, minerals and just the right amount of acidity, each sip lingers for minutes. Surely the greatest Bordeaux of this storied vintage. Who knows how it will age even further but it can’t get any more beautiful than it already is.
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This was a killer dinner based on first growths of 82 and 83, all from 6 Liter format. This one came out of the gate so young compared to the 720 i had two weeks ago but within 30 minutes it was rocking. Classic Latour, powerful, intense and long
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Elegant and long, opened for two hours, but this bottle seems shut down tonight, 3 beautiful notes in a sonata; nothing "off" about this wine, its just oddly restrained. I think Latour sometimes takes a nap, but given recent laudatory reviews by trusted tasters, Im at a loss for why this is so narrow tonight.
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Words cannot do this justice. The wine is incredibly concentrated, powerful, rich and yet, firm, regal, refined and elegant. At a tasting of close to 20 different 1982 wines, this was the wine of the tasting! And that is saying something. The intensity found here, does not quit! There is layer after layer of depth. On the palate, the wine just keeps on going and never quits. Freshness, kingly refinement length and expansiveness are all part of the game. Popped and poured, decanting would have helped. Further cellaring would assist as well. I am sure future generations with well stored bottles, especially in magnum with be drinking this until it's at least 75 years old, or longer!
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Decanted for 90 mins. Another fantastic showing of this wine. Nose has herbs, blood, iron, red currant, black currant, perfume, cedar wood, tobacco and smoke. Palate is still so youthful and vibrant. It is so elegant yet powerful that it coats your mouth and palate. Very complex and giving. I think this wine easily has 20-30 more years ahead of it. I hope this will be like 61 Latour today in 20 years. 97-98
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Immediately upon pulling the cork, a rush of red and black fruit hits the senses. After decanting for an hour, nose displayed nuances of above mentioned fruit, freshly tanned leather, pencil shavings and crushed rocks. Tannins virtually gone once savored on pallet. Served to prime-cuts of beef where cuvée intermixed with juices from the beef portrayed a climax to the experience. Long lasting finish proclaiming it still has a long life ahead. My favorite ‘82 First Growth to date.
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Château Latour Vertical (Vaucluse): Fantastic nose, reminiscent of the ‘90 in terms of opulence and projection in of the glass. Leathers, bold minerality, and damp earth influenced red fruit. Great bouquet, bold and striking. A distinct spice here as well. Palate is still big and isn’t as round and pleasurable as the sensational nose suggests, but is still great. Sometimes '82s don't live up to the hype, but this was fantastic and is a bottle I'd really like to have more of.
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Latour and Sine Qua Non weekend; 11/2/2017-11/3/2017 (Edina, MN): Medium-dark red. Very fragrant, intense nose. Still fruit-forward and tannins are notable, but tertiary characteristics are adding multiple levels of interest. Unlike the '61 opened the same evening, which opened up magnificently but slowly degraded in the glass, the '82 just got better and better. Finish goes on what seems like forever. Ultimately, it didn't quite reach the initial near-perfection of the '61 but it came damn close. This is in a great place now and will continue to be for decades.
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First and almost last wine tasted. Big, bold, fragrant nose, good color, showing age. Big mouthfeel and long finish. Loved this wine and will continue to love this wine. Wow.
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Saturated cork with some seepage, top shoulder fill. Slow ox for 5 hours, then decanted for 1.5 hours. Nose stayed weak but palate evolved over the next few hours. Very nice, but unfortunately not as good as some previous bottles.
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Still a bit too young for my taste but a truly exceptional wine. Next time I will give a longer decant. Interestingly, I recently tasted this a against the 82 Lafite. I actually, liked the Lafite better. Last night tasted against the 82 Lafleur. All these are outstanding wines by any measure!
Wet cork with some seepage, top shoulder fill, bit of barnyard. Slow ox for 3 hours, then double decanted for an hour. Needed yet another hour to really get going. Very nice, but not as good as some previous bottles.
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'82 Bordeaux and Friends (Rene's): (Tasted blind) Completely shut down on the nose at first, but with some swirling in the glass, opened up incredibly. A touch of vegetal/charcoal at first, then opening up with more perfume and black fruit. Texture was just ok at first, but then became rather silky; the finish was amazingly tannic. Definitely left bank.
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World's Greatest - Night I (Eleven Madison Park): Similar but bolder nose than that on the Lafite with more blue and blackberry fruit as opposed to rustic earth. This palate is bigger than the Lafite as well with more structure and stuffing. Showy for Latour, but also pretty true to forum. Deep, dark, and rich. A beauty but still a bruiser.
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Big Boy Bordeaux Spring Dinner (Morton's Northbrook): Awesome aromas of heady black cherry fruits with a very slight dusty dirty edge. Smooth rich dense core of black spicy fruits dominated the flavor profile and make the wine very special. Quite smooth and rich, very pretty. Just a bit of earthy must detracts on the margin. A spectacular wine holding very well, although I think there may be even better bottles out there. Thanks Kevin, a real treat!
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Wet cork with a bit of seepage, top shoulder fill. Slow ox for 6 hours, then poured into decanter and let it sit for an hour. This one needed yet another hour or so to start singing. Nice nose and palate after some air, but not as great as the last bottle.
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Decanted 45 minutes, but the fruit soared from the bottle as it was opened - and the first swirl and taste upon decanting were absolutely fantastic. Yes, still young and more great things to come, but this was absolutely wonderful to drink last night. So young in color, with dark fruits and graphite on the nose, along with some nice earth and secondaries. So rich and concentrated, yet showing great balance and a long finish with the tannins hardly noticeable. This was all I had hoped it would be after hesitating to open or wait - certainly remaining bottles will hold for many years and improve a bit, but this is a joy to drink right now. After about 90 minutes it did seem like it was shutting down just a bit, and possibly needing some time in the decanter to open back up - so keep that in mind for the next one. A
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Slow oxed for 7 hours. This is my third bottle out of a half case. I believe the slow ox method goes well with this wine. Amazing stuff. Earthy at first then cherry, tobacco, cedar, comes out. Smooth as velvet as you drink it. Pure sophistication, wither so much happening in it. Still has 20 years easy in my opinion. Great wine!
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Slow ox 6 hours Wow. Smells great. Thick clear rim on top. Cherry, cherry luden, leather, soy sauce, dust, cedar box, tobacco, long finish, just very sophisticated. Mouth feel is velvet, finish is 30 seconds. Weight medium, acid medium, several transitions on this wine from cherry and strawberry fruit, moving towards cedar box and tobacco. Great wine and still has energy.
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Achim's Magnum Tasting 2016 (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): From magnum the bottle was from a perfect cellar, so the bottle was even after 4 hours of decantation too closed and firm, you feelthe power the graceness but the beauty is hidden behind the structure and tannins of the wine, the same for the Mouton 1982 from MG, 97-100, will survive at least 30 more years
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Opened 12 hours before dinner. Ullage in neck. Very closed and inaccessible at first. Slowly opening up, but remains incredibly young at 34. Seducing nose with huge intensity. Black fruits, cedar, tobacco, cassis. Even younger on the palate with vibrant freshness, great balance and soft but very present tannins. Everything present but certainly not performing at its peak yet. Incredibly long and pleasant finish. I'll wait 10 years before the next bottle.
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Double decanted for one hour. Beautiful nose with sous bois, black fruit, truffle, cedar wood and mushroom. Palate has good weight and very nice black fruit sweetness. Very elegant and balanced.
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It's Latour, it's vintage '82 and it's wonderful, no surprise for this bottle purchased on release with ullage into neck and bright healthy color. Beautiful balance, the tannins are ripe and well integrated, the acidity is just right and the fruit is almost lush. A nice touch of Pauillac dirt rounds out the impression. Both mature and youthful. Markedly different from the '82 Ducru and '82 Pichon Lalande we had with it.
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If not for the 82 Pichon Lalande next to it, this would have been the wine of the night. But it's like choosing 1a and 1b with these two wines. The Latour is still showing very young. The nose was fantastic, with so much complexity. Black currant, cedar, brown spices, forest floor, and tobacco. This wine is even better on the palate, with incredible balance and concentration. Lots of tannic structure, but the tannins are soft and round. A long finish with lots of freshness. Compared to the Lalande, this wine has darker fruits, is more primary, but does have a bit more earthy character. This has decades left in the tank. I'm guessing this hasn't reached its peak and will get even better from here.
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Perfect balance, rich, complex, opulent black fruit, impeccable mouthfeel, multilayered, so complete, absolutely breath-taking. When I drank this for my 50th in 2013 it was just perfect and an easy 100 points. Last night it was still a little on the young side, and not as exotic as the Mouton.
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Popped and poured into decanter. Cork broke coming out. Not much on the nose. After an hour the palate improved but still not much nose even with aggressive swirling. Palate was nice, but weak. Stayed the same for several hours until it was gone. Perhaps an off bottle.
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Very precise with an engaging nose of cedar and dark fruits but you had to work hard to really find them. As you would expect wonderfully balanced wine, with just the right acidity and plenty of length and complexity revealing a wide range of fruit and mineral flavours. But somehow lacking in wow factor. We had a Monbousquet 99 two nights later and it was the more enjoyable wine. Good news for those who have large format is that it is still v youthful.
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Black Lion Wine Club - Latour and Friends (The Black Lion): The wine is clear and medium garnet in colour. The nose is clean with pronounced aromas of ripe and opulent black fruits (black currant, blackberry, black cherry), spice (liquorice), herbaceous (blackcurrant leaf), oak (clove, vanilla, smoke), dried fruit (prune, date), tertiary development (cedar, tobacco, mushroom). The wine is developing. The palate is dry with medium (+) acidity, medium (+) alcohol, full body, medium soft ripe fine tannins, pronounced flavours of blackcurrant, blackberry, vanilla, cedar, tobacco. The finish is long. The wine is outstanding quality. The concentration of aromas and flavours is extraordinary, opulent, with multiple layers. The descriptors above do not really do justice to the complexity of the wine. The finish is incredibly long and persistent. The acid and tannins do however still provide balance to the fruit. The wine can be drunk now but is suitable for further ageing (general opinion seems to be up to 2040, I wouldn't argue with that). It has the concentration of fruit, supported by the acid and tannin structure, to continue to develop for many years to come, adding greater tertiary complexity. Arguable the wine is remarkably youthful for its 34 years. One of the most extraordinary wines I have drunk. Why haven't I given it 100 points? Possibly because I lack a benchmark (first time for a Bordeaux First Growth). Possibly because, amazing as it was, it didn't quite blow me completely away. But that is nit-picking, it certainly is an amazing wine.
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Latour 82 – this wine is unbeatable as one of the best wines I’ve ever drunk. Austere nose that takes over impressively still with red fruits, gooseberry, cedar, spice touches but with so much integrity that it smells like a 10-12 year old wine. The palate is still full, flamboyant. A remarkable wine that I hope medicine will take me to drink one of those magnum’s with 100 years.
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Mostly Bordeaux dinner with Bob (Magdalena restaurant at the Ivy Hotel, Baltimore): Slightly leaner than I expected. Classic Pauillac nose, lead pencil, cedar and leather. Also subtle cassis, a hint of truffle and tree bark. Quite silky and precise, youthful cassis driven palate impression, nicely integrated tannins and clean mineral and cedar driven finish. Though thoroughly enjoyable, not perfect.
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Powerful and yet elegant dark and red fruit. Great balance of organic soil and leaf tones with spices. On the younger side as far as this wine goes, this bottle needed another 10 years to reach its first plateau
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Typical Pauillac, cassis, graphite, red berries, phantastic acidity, ripe tannins, silky but still alive and giving a great backbone, cedarwood, cigarbox, licorice, six months before from MG fresher and longer in the finish, this time only 98, at least 20 more years before reaching his top
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Fill in lower neck; cork damp yet intact. Dark reddish garnet in color with ever-so-very-slight clearing at the edges. Forward, attractive & aromatic complex nose of fruit aromas of dark cherries, blueberries and cassis with classic overtones of cigar box of cedar & tobacco & floral notes of violets, earthy/dusty, leather, truffles, graphite, herbal notes of mint, spice notes of pepper, coffee notes, minerals, smoky and a hint of vanilla in the distant background. Full bodied with a very good concentration of silky smooth, complex ripe dark fruit flavors of cherries, blackberries & plums with cedar, earthy, herbs, mushrooms, spices, minerals and a touch of vanilla. Long, lingering silky smooth finish. Although it may be at or very close to its peak, it has the fruit & structure to hold onto this current plateau for quite a while longer. The classic "iron fist in a velvet glove."
Tasted side by side with the '66. Amazing how the two were so similar in profile with the '66 showing just slightly more bricking. This wine was clear dark ruby with slight bricking around the edges. Nose and palate were very structured at first but the fruit was there for the patient. Lovely wine to sit and contemplate for a couple hours.
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DRC Tasting Group: Bordeaux Night (Seattle, WA): Tasted blind. A hint of green pepper to start. Lovely nose. Body -- wow. Soft and so elegant, supple, and lithe. Red fruit, spice, tobacco, earth. Amazingly persistent on the finish, with exceptional length, fine tannins, and great balance. Keeps you coming back for more!
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This wine can be perfection in a bottle. Sadly, while this was close, with its heady perfume, full bodied, concentrated palate presence, it was no cigar. Freshness, layers of perfectly ripe, juicy, cassis, tobacco, cigar box, ash, earth and cedar, at close to 40, this will easily go another 40 years. I wish I showed as young as this wine!
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Second time I can recall tasting this wine, and even though it's been some years, the wine still strikes me as quite young. Tannic and not giving much even after an hour in the glass. It's monolithic to my taste, but my palate leans heavily toward Burgundy.
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Preferred this to 1982 Mouton, although both are fantastic. This seemed less mature - still somewhat youthful with dark black fruit flavors balanced with wet stone. Hints of menthol and cigar box are there as well. Should be good for 20+ years.
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Liquid poetry to quote Hemingway! He had a thing for Margaux, my heart belongs to Latour. I don't know how other Cellar trackers can rate this wine below 100. This wine has the hand of God Involved. Where do I start as such complexity leaves me absolutely confounded. Deep ruby red color, hardly any signs of aging with some bricking throughout the body of the wine. Very complex nose of cassis, graphite, leather, mushrooms with an overlay of bitter chocolate. Finesse, power, complexity, structure, multiple layers on the palate, velvet entry on the palate, the wine has a foot in heaven and another on earth. Great acidity mid palate, finishes eternally long and complex. A true masterpiece, wine craft at its best.
Rich and deep and yet only beginning to show its potential. Precise red and dark fruit, dusting of black and white pepper, coal dust, cedar and faint sandalwood, dry soil, tobacco. Well stored bottles, of which this was one, appear to require 10+ years to reach their next plateau. 98+
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Château Latour vertical tasting ((Wine Watch, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)): This was clearly the wine of the night. The nose was simply amazing, complex and layered. Black currant, cedar, brown spices, licorice, and tobacco. Pure perfection on the palate, from the attack to the finish. A long finish that left a sense of currant and sweet tobacco. Easily one of the best wines I’ve ever tasted. This baby will sing for decades.
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At Giando's Star Street in Hong Kong - This wine has almost never disappointed me and tonight was no exception. '82 Latour in bottle is still in the early stages of its plateau of maturity. If you love Bordeaux you need to try this wine as it is the definitive expression of how good mature (and probably still improving) claret can be.
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Latour Dinner with Frederic from Chateau Latour. Bottle was straight from the Chateau and in perfect condition. Definitely the highlight of the night. Interestingly Frederic mentioned that this vintage, along with many back then, the selection process at the vineyard wasn't as careful as these days and all kinds of things made it in, yet the wine has aged so well and is incredibly good. Has some light bricking, beautiful color. Caramel, orange peel, cedar, dark plum, little bit of tobacco. Getting a little tired, but has lots of life left still. Overall, really beautiful wine from an awesome year! Glad I can cross this one off the list.
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deep dark color, nose and mouth for that matter of purple fruit wrapped in a chocolate cigar box. full mouth and long long finish with real grip. this wine is 33 but alive and kicking
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Slow Ox 5+ hours Nice Ruby red Leather, blueberry, Asian spice, graphite, ink, fig, so perfumie. Even some vegetable coming through on a nose Nose is crazy, so powerful compared to other 82s I have had. Flavors graphite, Asian spice, blueberry, nice gaminess. Finish is insane 30-40+ seconds. Mouth feel is unbelievable silky feel to it. 1hour after the start a creaminess comes out on nose as well as truffle type flavors. 2 hours in more transition Tobacco, beautiful coffee, and tiramisu on nose and flavor comes out. Acid medium, weight medium minus. Killer stuff!
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Relatively speaking, this wine was a disappointment for me considering all the hype around it. Yes, it was a great wine, but it was overshadowed by many others in this blind tasting. I had heard it was the best of the 1982s but this bottle did not take my breath away.
The nose started with a lot of black fruit and oak. It then moved to cigar, saddle leather, and a lot of brett. I think for me there was too much brett which hid what could have been more complexity. At times the other elements snuck through but it didn't consistently deliver like the other wines.
On the plate it was fruit, cigar, and some herbalness. Very smooth, but not with the intensity of other wines. In other company it might have really shined but not today. However, others, who presumably loved the brett, liked it a heck of a lot more.
My #7, the group's #1.
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1.Flight Latour 1990 MG vs Lynch Bages 1989 MG 2 Flight La Mission Haut Brion 1989 vs Haut Brion 1989 3.Flight Mouton 1982 vs Latour 1982 MG 4 Flight Mouton 1986 vs Lafite 1986
Opened 24 hours before, for me WOTN, maybe because it is from Magnum, unbelievable extract sweetness, comparable to Priorat but much more elegant and finer and the lower alcohol level gives this wine a tremendous balace. You feel espresso, cacao, cassis and graphite. Tobacco and smoke. now in a great drinking window. will survive the next 30 years, 100
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Chateau Latour Vertical Tasting - TWG (Des Moines): Beautiful, mature wine. Tannins are nicely resolved, leaving a lovely satin texture. Full bodied with lots of dark fruit. Classic Latour nose of walnuts, cassis, and gravel. Very complex. At peak drinking window, in my opinion.
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Ok, now we're talking! smutty nose, wet earth, ox blood, Cuban cigar, broad and expansive, slight herbs but sweet currant and dried cherries, tanned leather; palate is refined and silky from time in bottle, awesome mid, mushrooms, meaty, still enough texture to suggest a relative youthfulness; awesome wine, long finish and addictive,the essence of Latour, a classic example, can understand why others rate this 100.
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Strong umami tinge to the nose with significant truffle presence. Deep dark fruit, bell pepper, black pepper, white pepper. Green tobacco, dark earth and faint cedar balance the fruit on the palate. Superior to the bottle six months prior. 99+
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This is so good, the scale should be adjusted to allow for 101 Pts! This is everything a great Bordeaux needs to be with its majestic blend of silk, velvet and power. The exotic nose is compelling, with its cassis, blackberry, tobacco, earth, cigar box, cocoa, and dark chocolate nose. But the real action takes place on your palate. Layer after layer of perfectly ripe, sensuous, powerful fruit coats your palate and stays there, lingering and expanding for over 60 seconds.
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Absolutely stunning nose, with sweet dark fruit notes and savory sweetness lingering. Resolved and perfectly balanced in the mouth with poise, lush mouthfeel and long finish, amazing mix between secondary character and fruit presence. Hauntingly good wine.
I don't do scores, but this would be perfect or close.
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Totally different experience than the last bottle. Refined, almost reserved on the nose with dense dark fruit, tobacco, herbs and leather. This carried through to the palate which was very deep and concentrated and almost seemed like it needed a few more years to open up--and as the evening progressed, I came to believe this wine is just getting started. Ultra long finish with subtle, but present tannin and more tobacco and graphite. Amazing balance.
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I usually do not consider Latour an especially fragrant wine and that its attraction lies on the palate. But this perfectly preserved bottle purchased on release with low neck level proved me wrong with its stunning bouquet of cassis, blackberry, cedar and spice which faded not a bit over 3 hours. The palate presence was equally spectacular with flavor echoing the bouquet precisely and lasting indefinitely to the warm crisp finish of perfect harmony. Bordeaux, or any wine, does not get any better than this.
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Is this the perfect Bordeaux-wine? I think so. Still young, but in smooth, seamless harmony and restrained elegance, that put all others to shame; tailor cut and so fine, tich in an aristocratic fashion. Bravo (and thank you, Ib). #LaTour#Aalborg
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Pre Davos Wine Forum tasting (Zumikon, Switzerland): Caramel, green, kinky and surprisingly exotic. The fruit is pure and mineral and certainly quite generous, definitely reflecting the vintage. The tipoff to Latour is the sneaky length and very powerful grip that kicks in about 30 seconds after the finish.
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Deep and mature, surprisingly mellow. Regal, very Cabernet Sauvignon with the softness and complexity that comes with age. This bottle purchased on release with a low neck fill and firm cork which came out easily in one piece.
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This was a very good bottle of a great wine. The experience can be much better, which is saying something, since this was so good. With a nose of fresh herbs, cedar chest, forest floor, cassis, tobacco and spice, the wine is rich, full bodied and filled with fruit, earth and powerful, sensuous textures. There is the perfect blend of silky tannins and power. This is elegance at its best.
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"20 Vintages of Latour at Daniel." A gorgeous, full-bodied, rich and terroir-driven Latour that should easily merit 100 pts. one day. This bottle gave just a hint of fabulous complexity on the finish suggesting the '82 may be finally emerging from it's dumb phase that has persisted over the past few years. What a gorgeous, silky yet full vintage. 97+
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Dark nose with coal, tar and dark earth. Tannins balanced by a nice sweetness with plum and black raspberry. This vintage has a well deserved reputation. Decanted for two hours.
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decanted for an hour. glorious aromas. supremel regal structure. had a little dip midway through in terms of expressiveness. a perfect claret otherwise.
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Great wines are going to be different in character, but they are not going to get better than this. The wave of fruit that drenches your palate is packed with polished, elegant, lush berries. The nose is a turn on and the finish last over 60 seconds. To use a quote from one of my favorite movies; "The Maltese Falcon," "This is the stuff dreams are made of."
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This is different from the last- Less dramatic, no orchestra playing. It starts off with velvet violets, very promising, fresh and active. Dark red with the slightest bit of tawny. Slowly, the fruit appears, soft and round, fragrant yet stoic. But this is more of a string quartet, the music is calming but fading slowly into the background, it is there but it is not. This is ephemeral, the memory of power.
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The 1982 Latour is like sitting in an empty theatre, a regal historical theatre. Plush red velvet seats all around you and a warm glow from the lights above. A violin starts to play, slow and melodic, achingly beautiful, and then the orchestra starts up gently, playing a sonata, quiet and serene, music for you alone. This is quite perfect.
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Strange night. First bottles (from Morell) cork was completely gone and wine tasted and smelled off so I opened another (from Vinfolio) and it was amazing. Towards the end of the night, we checked the first bottle and it had come around. The second bottle was a 96, hitting on all cylinders, classic Latour. All that will make it better is more time. The first was a 93, still very nice and if we had not just had a perfect bottle it might have garnered higher ratings.
A brilliant performance from this legendary wine. Massive, concentrated, endless length. The black fruitiness is in full display in a mysterious charcoal way. This time that descriptor is meant to be a compliment. This bottle purchased on release and had a low neck level.
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"Best of the Best" Tasting (Switzerland): Tasted blind: Clear intensive garnet in color. Nose of leather, smoke, tar, exotic herbs, coffee and red berries. The wine has power, is highly complex, perfect balance between tannins, acidity, sweetness and it has an unbelievable length. Flavors of coffee and red berries. This wine still feels young and is one of the best wines I have tasted so far. In the past 4 weeks I am fortunate enough to taste this true beauty and modern day legend for the second time. Just wonderful Drink now - 2040
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Purchased on release and low neck level and very dark color just beginning to show orange at the rim. This is the apotheosis of Chateau Latour. All I could think is was "black." Black ink, black berry, black mushroom, black truffle, ash, smoke, asphalt. Immense power and muscle, not because of tannin because that had melted totally into the liquid. Very, very impressive at this stage of its life.
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Latour Vertical Tasting; 12/19/2013-12/20/2013 (Switzerland): Nose of leather, cassis, truffles and herbs. This is a very elegant yet incredibly complex Latour. The taste reminded me of sweet cherries, chocolate and plums. The tannins are well integrated but still present giving this wine a long life. Ideally this wine is stored for another 5 years or so.
After I have written down some initial notes on the wine, it was my wife's turn to try this beauty. Soon thereafter the glass was empty and she meant that she really likes this wine. Good taste!
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This is the wine of the vintage and one of the wines of the century. As good as it is now, it's almost scary to think how good 2009 could turn out when it's the same age. I am not sure how it happened, but I was able to taste this wine twice in the same month and a third time, not that long ago. I know how lucky I am. However, the point of this is to state that on each occasion, the wine was easily at triple digits in quality! It is remarkably consistent. To plagiarize myself, if aliens came down to earth and wanted a wine to take back to their planet, this is the wine. With textures of refined sensuality, the wine is opulent, flamboyant and exotic. The perfume screams the moment the cork pops with its tobacco, truffle forest, spice box, cigar wrapper, incense and black cherry liqueur notes. The finish builds and expands for over 60 seconds! This is the wine I'd buy, if I hit the lottery tomorrow.
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Drank on our 30th anniversary at Pacific's Edge in Carmel Highlands. Killer good wine. Drank with a bone in rib eye. Beautiful Bordeaux perfume on the nose. Plenty of everything great. Fruit, acid, tannins all resolved and in balance and amazing fruit. Perfect wine for me. Best I have had in years. Still has some life to age longer, but so so good now.
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its like waitng for the cubs to win the world series....there is never enough time to wait for this amazing wine to give you everything in the tank....Over the top perfume, with a full mouth feel and strong finish. This time on the young side, but not a sin to drink up. I'm glad to have pre- intense market upside bottles to enjoy. These will never be sold or passed on to a family member.
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From a pristine bottle, probably purchased on release, with a bottom neck level, I expected fireworks, but got only a whimper. Quiet nose, palate was pleasant enough but without personality, focus or concentration. One dimensional blackberry fruit. So, not corked or spoiled, just lackluster.
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Drank over 2 hours. Some that were with me said this bottle was not correct and they have more experience than I do. That said, I found this to be a lovely, full on Paulliac nose of dark fruit, tobacco, leather and herbs. The palate matched and was smooth and creamy but a touch of dryness on the medium finish--which was probably the fault. Still excellent.
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Mad for Magnums (Ai Fiori - New York NY): From magnum. Cassis, black currant, tobacco aromas with subtle spice support. Great balance overall, with a flavor profile matching the aromas. Really completely charming and harmonious vs the last time I had this wine from a bottle that showed almost no evolution or maturity.
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Perfect in every way sums it up nicely. For those that want details, the wine remains deeply colored with a complex fragrance built from spice box, cedar chest, cassis, roasted blackberries, tobacco, flint and forest floor scents. Picture massive amounts of concentrated fruits, ripe, sweet, powerful, round tannins and the texture of velvet and you start to get the idea. Pop a bottle now, or wait 50 years, if you can...
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Tasted blind. OMG!!! Absolutely incredible, super-expressive nose of cedar, black currants, blackberries, tobacco, truffle, earth, spices and some smoke. Hits the palate with an incredible silkiness, density and amazing aromatic complexity. It's full-bodied without being heavy, has enough acidity and tannins to balance the opulent fruit. Extremely long finish. This is a super-opulent, flamboyant and flashy Latour but with an incredible balance and depth of flavor. Was picked as WOTN by the tasting group. Probably one of the best wines I have ever had.
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I had this wine three times. Once 1998 in Zurich served by my boss, then 2004 in Taipei served to my boss and then recently served by a friend who brought it to a tasting. Every time it was a 100 Pointer and it also won the tasting amid stiff competition (Ausone 98, Lafite 96, Margaux 03). It is highly complex and structured but still has a warm flamboyant side rarely seen by Latour. However I liked it even more the last two times. I guess also this wine has a time window that is about to close, at least in the 0.75 bottle.
The aroma is very elegant and still fresh and perfectly balanced. the tannins are a bit grainy ( in a nice way). It has very strong and nice cab fruit and the balance is perfect.
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An amazingly youthful wine drunk out of double magnum (provenance verified) with a white truffle based meal. Still dark with no suggestion of amber. Nose full of fruit, toast, loam, cedar, pencil lead. Layers of flavour, ripe and rich and totally integrated and harmonious. And it was still a baby - at least out of this format. Best wine had in a long time.
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A Weekend Of Aged First-Growths At Beau-Rivage in Geneva (Beau-Rivage Hotel, Geneva, Switzerland): Much more restrained than the Cheval Blanc with a loverly nose of black earth and leathers. Plums, smoky meats, walnuts and minerals. Powerful and very young yet but with classic structure and concentrated and smooth tannins. A very deep wine that is not showing its charms tonight and may have gone back to sleep for a while. Still, the potential is there. 96+
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If a wine deserved more than 100 Pts, this bottle was a contender for that honor. One of the clear indicators for a sublime wine is, it starts off great and continues improving and keeps on getting better than you could have imagined. This bottle of 1982 Latour was all that and more! Tobacco, earth, truffle, wet gravel, cassis, blackberry, cedar and spice box was elevated to new level. The intense, perfectly balanced, potent, mouth filling waves of fresh, ripe, pure flavors expanded on your palate for over 60 seconds! Silk and power, with everything in perfect balance and harmony. The wine continued to improve in the glass for hours. This is what great Bordeaux is all about! This was one of those bottles that you remember forever.
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Alcohol :: 12.5% The legendary Latour. Almost hit the peak (at least for the bottle). It has all the greatness of a Latour: incredible depth, scale and class. However, the overall profile is not as bright as I would expect from a great Latour, a little bit musky which I thought took away some balance and purity. Well, I ain't complaining though! I will reserve my rating until I have tasted another bottle to compare.
continuing my tour of 1982's, I pulled the cork on this one with my wife who wasn't drinking much so I had most of it myself over the course of a long evening - a felicitous turn of events as it started slowly but finished strong.
The fill level was BN, the cork was in good shape and the color was ruby with a touch of amber starting to creep in. The bouquet is not overpowering but complex and on this night it took some time to show everything. There was a floral component, stewed plums, leather, and vanilla that got stronger during the course of the night.
I decanted for an hour which wasn't enough as it suffered initially paired with food. Over time it's viscosity and sweetness of fruit not only became more pronounced but really took off. There's a sweet entry with palate coating layers of soft licorice, figs, prunes, not much acidity - overall a dark sweetness that is very alluring but a little narrow. The concentration suggests to me that this wine will last a long time
Latour is vibrant and delicious, giving in spades the qualities I mention, though for my it taste some of the other top 82s seem to have a an extra section playing in their symphony.
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The cork drop into the bottle so the nose was not as good as it should be but the structure was great and the aftertaste was very long with layers and sensational finished. If it's perfect in condition, it easily get 100/100 for sure.
Truly great wine !!!
Drink now - 2040...........95-100/100..............
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35th Anniversary Party Cellar Tasting; 6/16/2012-6/17/2012 (Rich & Dana's): Deep opaque crimson core. Aromas of red currant, tobacco, cedar, spice box and florals, a touch of graphite too. Young, chewy tannins give way to red fruit, Asian spice and tobacco flavors. Long finish dominated by chewy red fruit and tobacco qualities. Would love to try this again in ten to fifteen years, but then, who wouldn't? 95-96+ pts.
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1982 Bordeaux at 30 years courtesy of Mark Taylor (Atlanta, GA): There was some debate as to whether this was corked. I never got the TCA, but there was clearly something a little dirty going on. Graphite on the nose with some smouldering depth. This is a baby that is just far from ready. I guessed this as the Mouton given the lack of readiness. My 5th favorite in the flight.
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15+ years 95+ RP Bordeaux dinner at Ruth’s Chris, Tysons (Ruth’s Chris, Tysons Corner, VA): Pop and pour, the nose is a quintessential Pauillac, lead pencil, cedar, leather, truffle, cassis and earth. Purchased by RJ in 1986, the color is very youthful. Extremely silky and weightless palate but also shows strong tannin presence. This particular bottle drinks very young and a great example of grand vin claret. Still a long life ahead.
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there's a wealth of fruit in this wine, a very black fruit oriented effort with a hedonistic streak. A strong and plummy nose but not very complex, perhaps offering a hint of coffee. it is concentrated with sweet tannins, my first impression was to think of the 1990 Beausejour stylistically because of the thickness yet effortless quality of the fruit, but that wine offers more secondary nuances (a 100 point wine). The finish is long and sweet, with dark fruits predominating and a hint of menthol.
very enjoyable and impressive concentration for a 30 year old bottle...it could well improve from here. but it never did what the very best Bordeaux do...there was little intellectual appeal and it never really changed over several hours. probably not worth the price tag at 2-large. the 82 Mouton is better.
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1982 Bordeaux First Growth (and Comparable) Dinner (Carlos - Highwood, IL): Served single blind with all 1982 First Growths. Decanted approximately three hours before poured. Way too young - all black fruit with some intense spice, but this just didn't show any evolution yet. Clearly great raw materials, but this bottle seemed to have come out of a sealed time capsule.
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CdBaH 81st (RDG): What an extraordinary wine! Fully mature, but no where near the sunset of its life. Remarkably deep color for its age; no signs of fading. Seamless from the nose, to the palate, to the finish. Elegant, soft, powerful, deep, and focused all at once, and yet almost weightless across the palate. Still full of fruit. Pulled out of an unbroken OWC by the original purchaser. Kept in ideal cellar conditions since the original purchase.
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Dark red, with an amber rim. Liqueur-like aromas of plum, roasted meat, mocha, tobacco, truffle and burnished oak. Fat, lush and smooth, with explosive fruit and powerful underlying backbone. Massive but not at all heavy. Wonderfully tactile wine, finishing with big, chewy-but-ripe tannins and great persistence. Drink during your lifetime.
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Vertical of 15 vintages Latour followed by a 3* Michelin dinner and 11 magnums. (@ the Librije in Zwolle, Netherlands.): A dream came true. This wine was really high on my wish list to drink once. Dark carmine red with a slightly orange rim. Deep and subtle bouquet with cedar, tobacco, graphite, cassis and licorice. Slightly sweet start with some caramel, beautiful continuation of the bouquet. Also some earthy impressions. Beautiful and creamy soft tannin which still have enough power for many years. Beautiful acidity as well. Overall this is a superb and complex wine, a little more evolved than expected.
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With its intense aromatics and incredible concentration, it said hello and kept on talking. Deep, powerful and complex. This has a wonderful purity of fruit and the finish seems lasts over a minute.
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1982 Bordeaux w/ Bob Macdonald (Minneapolis): Third time tasted. The perfect, Zen-like confluence of power and elegance. An utterly complete and seamless wine. Its dynamism is the equal of the '82 Petrus, tasted side-by-side (see TN), but the palate here is more vigorous and persistent, and the finish blasts off instead of attenuates. The fruit and spices are intense, hauntingly complex, harmonious, and beautiful. Still youthful and gorgeously structured, this easily has 50 or more years of life ahead.
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Perfect ruby color with slightly-fading edges. Gorgeous nose of sweet tobacco, earth and walnuts. I can really taste the vineyard in this wine with the dark black fruits with notes of slate, black minerals and roasted walnuts. Super-sleek texture with gobs of complex earhty flavors. Finishes sooo smooth and finely concentrated but this wine remains quite young and fresh and still 5 years or so away from peaking. Still, the taste of the terroir here is mind-boggling. 97+
Amazing. Deep ruby, no hint of aging. Beautiful nose, full of fruit, cedar and leather. Perfect balance. Finish goes on, and on, and on. Hard to imagine this is 25+ years old -- probably a 100 year wine. In a word: perfect wine.
Note: Opened 7 days early, racked, recorked under gas
Colour: a dark intense purple Nose: perfumed, floral & vanilla, cigarbox, cedar, tobacco; seductive & gorgeous Palate: long, intense full palate of sheer joy with a super long elegant fine tannin finish with notes of green savouriness & white pepper. Beautifully structured
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Fabulous Latour but not what I expected. Mature mahogany color at the rim. Surprisingly soft fragrance with overtones of cinnamon and brown sugar. Not at all a heavyweight. Clearly fully mature and deep into the secondary phase where the Pauillac cedar and cassis are supporting players. Velvety texture, gentle finish, etherial. Compelling wine.
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Another excellent bottle. Decanted 2 1/ hours. deep, rich color. Wonderful bouquet. Cedar, cigar box, all the pauillac food groups. Years of life ahead.
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MOPA 100 Point Wine Tasting (Rancho Santa Fe, CA): Killer nose. This wine is singing right now! Unctuous blend of leather, truffles, with the most delicious dried plum fruit ever. Amazingly long finish. #2 wine of the event.
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This was a potential 98+ wine, but I am afraid I played this one wrong. There was a big nose when decanting. From the glass, there was some bret and oak, but mostly cedar and mushroom. This bottle was ready to play right out of the bottle. As to be expected with an '82, the tannins were bigger than the acidity, even after 27 years. There was lots of fruit on the palate on the first sip, especially raspberry and blackberry. After 30 minutes, there was mostly strawberry and at one hour there was sweet cherry nectar -mmmmm. That's when things started to go downhill. I poured the wine back into the bottle and placed it behind my car seat for the for the 30-minute trip to the restaurant. Unfortunately, the engine is behind the seat and the wine got a little warm by the time we arrived at the restaurant. My next mistake was to order oysters to start and the brine of the oysters did nothing good for my palate. My next mistake was to order tuna tartar, which was spicier than I expected. By the time my taste buds came back around, the wine was starting to turn towards soy flavors. Next time I will drink this wine at home with no food.
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Mouton Madness: SDR's BWE Thursday Night Dinner (Equinox Restaurant, Washington DC): Dark red to rim. Most intense nose of the flight, with dark ripe fruits, cassis, and cherry jumping from the glass mixed in with some smoky cedary notes and with some time in the glass some coffee notes as well to produce a fascinatingly complex nose. Full bodied, with rich ripe layered fruit and complex undernotes of leather, earth, and hints of tar. Nice long finish with lingering complexity. Really forward and giving for a young Latour, it hasn't yet developed the sweet complexity of truly aged Bordeaux, but it is as interesting on the palate as it is on the nose. I really love this stuff - it was challenged but never seriously threatened by the elegance of the '82 Lafite or the complexity of the '82 Mouton. My WOTN.
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Olives, black cherries, herbs, coffee, cassis, minerals and tobacco take over your senses. Still young and concentrated, this powerful, concentrated wine is not close to full maturity. It could outlast most people who own the wine today.
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Decanted for 4 hours, brought to Neil's B-Day dinner. The '82 Latour was great as usual. This has been the most consistent wine that I have had. Mushroom, eucalyptus and currants on the nose. Dark fruits and lots of them, on the palate, which turns to mint and then a little espresso on the long finish.
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A few highlights from a celebration (Northbrook, IL): Really great showing, best I've ever had for this generally great wine. Great color, nose showed great spice, currant and graphite. Real classic. Flavors of big black fruit with espresso and cocoa on long. long finish. Most people's WOTN, for me just behind the Krug 90 Mesnil.
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Ruby color with a classic Latour nose of currant, graphite, and spice box. Fantastic palate with some sweet fruit still showing and bits of chocolate. Tannins have melted away; beautiful wine.
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Celebration Dinner (Chicago): Full ruby red color. Full big nose of black currant and pencil lead with lavendar notes. Mmmn, full black coffee chocolate black fruit on the palate with hints of sweetness remaining. Lovely! WOTN for me (and the group) in a stunning lineup. This was a perfect example, better than the several times I've had it before. 97-98 pts.
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Dark ruby. As another taster proclaimed on first sniff of this wine, "Blackberries!" This wine was redolent of crushed blackberries, sweet wood, earth and spices. Easily the most accessable of the 1982s served this evening, the wine continued to evolve and develop over 6+ hours. Tannins still evident, but balanced and very fine. Finish of over 60 seconds. Stunning.
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“Oh My God!” This is the type of Bordeaux that brings tears to wine lovers eyes! This was so good, words alone do not do it justice. This amazing wine exploded with a myriad of scents including pepper, walnuts, spice box, cassis, cinnamon, licorice, coffee, truffles and more! And that was the beginning! The palate presence was out of this world! This is so opulent, exotic and rich, it has to be tasted to be believed. The perfect, seamless finish was breath taking filling every nook and cranny in your mouth and waking up all your taste buds and senses. If aliens came to earth and demanded a great wine, they would take 82 Latour!
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Very good indeed. Not 100 points good, not "you must try it before you die" good, but good nevertheless. Thick, light smoke, coffee, concentrated. Sue enjoyed it more than I did.
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Explosive nose of ripe strawberriesand cassis, leather, smoke, lead pencil and mokka... in the mounth very lactic, ripe strawberries, meaty, wild feasant with a refreshing acidity and a very very long aftertaste... simply the perfect wine!!
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Collingwood Tasting with Dokta, Futronic, Basecadet,Mimik and friends; 1/4/2008-1/5/2008: Nose of pure cassis, cedar and toasty oak. The palate is permeated with fresh cassis in a seemless texture and body. The nose is so seductive, so ethereal and so delicate. Long cassis and cedar finish. Out of this world.The wine makes circles around my taste buds.
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Wino Guys Weekend (WGW) #1; 1/4/2008-1/5/2008: Medium-ruby colour. Huge nose of cedar, cigar box, red licorice, herbs, currant, sandalwood, mineral, black licorice, dried roses, talc. Medium-bodied, silky, seamless wine with currant, leather, cedar, cigar box, and pencil lead. Long, long finish, 60+s, with mushroom, cigar box, and minerals. Absolutely gorgeous! I really don't know what else you could look for in a wine, or how to improve this. As such - 100 points. Only the second time I've dished out that score.
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82 Bordeaux Tasting (Chanterelle): Nose of pencil shavings and dark red fruit. Gorgeous wine. Lush fruit with serious structure. Loads of dark red fruit. Wonderful wine. WOTF, WOTN.
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91st Dinner of the George Rezek Society (Kendall College): Full deep ruby red color. Full nose of briar black fruit with just a hint of green pepper (surprised...). Great round red/black fruit with cedar, pencil lead, and a hint of sweetness. Clear breed here and probably still too young. While this was a wonderful wine and clearly WOTN among the 82s, I wanted to be more blown away by it.
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Staggeringly good and still young, but starting to display some of what makes this one of the top three wines of the vintage for me (along with Lafleur and Petrus). Completely inpenetrable black color. The star of the show for me of the "Latour by Four" tasting at Cafe Boulud with Greg, Brian, Bob and Arlette. Huge waves of blackberry jam and black currents on the nose, then the palate is treated to the same massive onslaught of rich, ripe fruit and thoroughly integrated new oak. What it doesn't yet have is complexity, but that will surely come over the next few decades.
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1982 Bordeaux with Leve at Spago (Los Angeles, CA): What else could this be but Latour. A massive wine that was loaded with graphite and black fruit. Incredibly direct and focused right now, this is a stunningly pure wine. Nothing exotic here. Just some of the purest Cabernet ever created in the world. Still, after the Pichon Lalande, it was clear which I preferred…
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Wine doesn’t get better than this! Cassis, tobacco, coffee and smoke aromatics jumped from the glass. Very tannic. Extraordinarily concentrated. You could spend all night counting the layers of fruit in this wine. Obviously, very complex. This is a huge wine. Every single taste receptor is awakened by this wine. Layers of ripe, decadent fruit cascade over your palate. My notes say, simply amazing! If wines could be awarded over 100 Pts, this could be it. When this sleeping giant becomes fully awake sometime in the next decade, it might be the wine of the vintage.
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I wouldn't argue with someone who rated this 100 points. (This bottle was purchased from John Hart Fine Wine several years ago from a European source and in mint condition.) It's a fabulous display of "young" but nearly mature Bordeaux, no longer a baby but still a toddler. Deep, deep ruby in the center with the barest hint of orange at the rim. A 10 hour decant probably helped to coax out the incipient lovely bouquet of black cherry, blueberry, licorice and blackberry. There's no cedar, tobacco or smoke such as an older wine might show. Huge in the mouth, but perfectly spherical. Luscious in Latour terms with the berries covered in a cocoon of bitter dark chocolate. Fabulous long fruity finish. Sure, it will continue to evolve and display more secondary flavors, but it's irresistible now. Incontrovertibly great wine.
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Last up, the 1982. This is wine that can be stunning, and as described by Jeff Leve recently - "if aliens landed on earth requesting wine, this is what they'd want." And I've had five or six bottles in the last year that qualify for that description. Sadly for us, tonight's bottle was subpar, and was good, but not great. Some type of storage damage along the way no doubt. But we really couldn't complain, as the 52 and 59 were perfect, so we count our blessings!
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From memory with dinner last night. Decanted for an hour. Amazing hour dark this wine is for its age. Great deep color. Wonderful Bordeaux nose, reserved for at least another hour (freshly empty glasses had the best nose of all before refilling) - lots of rich fruit with some vanilla and slight toast to back it up. Still a firm tannic finish. Great to drink now but it has not peaked yet - maybe 5 more years? A
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A perfume of coffee, licorice, herbs, cedar, chocolate and cassis is easy to find. Dense, palate filling with sweet, ripe tannin to resolve. Deep, multiple layers of opulent, silky, ripe, fruit cascade and glide across your palate. Amazingly soft, lush and open. But as sublime as it is now, don’t let that fool you. It’s holding it’s best charms in reserve.
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I thought this would be the wine of the evening at the Four Seasons, but all my guests immediately detected it was corked. Decanted for 12 hours. I though it was just mute, but I can see why others said that it was the evil TCA at work.
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61/82 Bordeaux Dinner (Luxor in Marunouchi): Deep and young colored. The nose is incredibly tight and needs vigorous aeration, to move beyond the slightly aromatic cigarbox and pencil stage, but it then manages to show more cedar, super-ripe cassis, peat and compost, and tobacco. Similarly young on the palate, it is very tannic in the front of the mouth but shows a nice, dense, full fruit in the mid-palate and an amazingly concentrated finish. As it opens up some, a rich sweetness begins to mask the substantial tannin up front and the mid-palate starts to show licorice and candied cranberry while a hint of nutty, bacony cheese quiche shows up on the finish. The fruit sweetness is balanced by a nice degree of acid, especially for the vintage. Still a baby, this displays a terrific balance of fruit, tannin, and acid that promises so much more to come. This still has a lot more hill to climb but is a pleasure to drink now.
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This was my first Latour. and it was amazing. The instant the glass was put down all attention was focused on the Latour. You could smell the wine without sticking your nose to the glass. The color was dark ruby (the Las Cases and the Latour had identical color, and the Lafite was only slight more red). The nose and the taste exuded power and balance. I got cigar box and lead pencil on the nose with added powerful fruit on the palate. The finish lasted forever. What an experience.
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Great Wines at Brad's House (Minneapolis): Same bottle as Siggy's TN... Absolutely fantastic. Deep, dark fruit, with broad, seemless texture, intriguing elements of earth and tobacco, and a finish that lasts forever. A wine of perfect proportions and balance - despite it's impressive underlying structure. Still young, I think we all agreed this wine will live for a very, very long time under good storage conditions. Thanks, Brad!
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Follow Up Dinner of (Mostly) Bordeaux (Brad's House, Minneapolis): Un-freaking-believable! A bottle that Brad purchased ex-Chateau, this wine was the embodiment of Pauillac elegance and power. Youthful black/red color with barely any bricking. The nose explodes with cassis, smoke, and minerals. Supple, elegant mouthfeel; one of the longest (60+ second) finishes I've ever experienced. As amazing as this was, I think it is at least 10 years away from its peak. A tour de force of a wine.
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HDH Pre-Auction Tasting (Chicago Athletic Club): Wine tasting. Black fruit just starting to show some secondary development. Really good tobacco and spice aromas. Palate really shows the same impressive fruit from the nose. Very elegant, balanced and long finish. Really impressive on every level.
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10/25/03 at K&L's Parker Tasting of Latour in SF. Dark, but evolved. Very special nose, lots of complexity. Palate also great. Very fine. 5-14-17-8-94/100
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Chateau Latour vertical (K&L Wines; moderated by Robert Parker) (San Francisco, CA): 1982 Chateau Latour The clear wine of the night among very stiff competition. This completely lived up to the hype. Writing notes was very difficult. This is still a fruit bomb with blackberry, cassis, pain grille, spices, etc. As good as the nose was though, the palate is what did it for me. Full bodied but velvety, low acidity, ripe tannins, incredible mid palate, explosive fruit and the greatest, longest finish. The best wine I have ever tasted. 100 points.
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Tasted single-blind at 1982 horizontal Bordeaux dinner at El Bizcocho. Bottle provided by Diogo Belo. Deep (nearly opaque) ruby robe with garnet/amber rim. Clean nose, showing an intense bouquet of kirsch, ripe black fruit, chocolate, anise, and lead pencil. Full-bodied on the palate, with low acidity and a syrupy mouth texture (despite huge, slightly dry tannins). Similar ripe and complex flavors as for the nose. Long, slightly astringent finish. Beautiful now, but will clearly benefit from further time in the bottle. An excellent accompaniment to the roasted rack of lamb (with confit garlic potato fondant and baby turnips in natural lamb truffle jus).
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at aspen: deep ruby with sl brick edge. elegant fruit and floral nose. Black fruits with well integrated but hard tannins. Accesible finally but needs more time. Classic great Latour.
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1982 Bordeaux retrospective (Capital Grille, Buckhead): One of my all-time favorite Bordeaux, massive, but elegant, explosive, but complex, in short, a paradox wrapped in an enigma smothered in secret sauce. It has never really closed down, but continues to awe me with its quality.
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Hugh’s bottle, purchased on release. At first, closed and tannic. Somewhat surprisingly, it evolved in the glass and became well behaved and civilized. Classic Latour now at age twenty. Should hold well. Outstanding but I still wonder if it will become spectacular.
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The darkest and most massive of the six ‘82 First Growths sampled at Ocean Grand. Far from maturity based on this bottle, unlike in the past. Not monolithic or tiring at all. Famous Latour breed in spades. Needs 5-8 years. Surely a great wine in the making.
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One of the consensus stars of the Latour vertical of the Great Wine Seminar. Very good color, no orange yet. Faint complex nose. Velvety texture, tender tannins. Deceptively ready. Power without weight. Intense, not heavy. Excellent acidity. Long and wonderful. So different from old Latour, how will it age?
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Medium ruby, orange rim. Regal. Brilliant fruit. Long and luscious. Delicious now with much more to follow. Modern style. Recognizably Latour anyway. Now at least $550. I should have bought more on release at $55 but the current price will look cheap in another 10 years.
Late addition in 2018: it’s $2600
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Tasted at unblinded vertical Latour tasting at the Belgian Lion. The light in the room was dim, so the color was difficult to assess. The best that can be said is that the color is "deep." Closed nose, with predominant currants. Big, tannic, slightly hot wine with currants on palate. Long, tannic finish. Probably "dumb" at this point. Some at the tasting felt that the wine is actually in decline, although I disagree. Would not drink before 2000-2005.
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Stylish Latour nose. Beautiful balance. Medium weight. Rounded ‘82 vintage “tender tannins.” Needs time of course, but doesn’t seem like it has the stuffing to become a great classic Latour.
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VERY DEEP RICH AROMAS, PLUM, BLACKCURRENT, TAR, LEATHER, AND A TOUCH OF MINT. STILL TANNIC, THOUGH APPROACHABLE. RICH BLACKBERRY FLAVORS, COMPLEX, LONG FINISH.
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4/21/2024 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points
My first encounter with this legend. Tasted double blind. This bottle was complex, superbly balanced and offered a lot of drinking pleasure, despite still showing young. However, this bottle in this setting didn’t have the je-ne-sais-qua-factor you would expect from a legend and that ultra-classic Latour profile, which in my head usually defines what Bordeaux is or should be. Still, this was a very good wine and has decades to go.
TN: Expressive, intense nose with lots of minerality, red and dark fruit, some minty/eucalyptus notes, hints of tobacco. Elegant, aromatically balanced, inviting. Same flavor profile with more layers of minerality on the palate, as well as some spices. Hardly any tertiary aromas. Quite complex and well-defined. Good attack and great mid-palate weight. Fine, elegant structure with a wall of fine tannins, perfectly integrated medium+ acidity, a fine/melty texture and an overall good balance.
Decanted: decanted for 2h, consumed out of the bottle 2h later. The person bringing the wine said that the wine was better without the decant.
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4/20/2024 - dbenglis Likes this wine: 94 Points
Initial nose was a bit off putting. I allowed the wine to open up in a decanter for about an hour. The wine just needed to breath. Excellent bottle. Drinking well now. This particular bottle did not have the complexity in the tertiary notes compared to Lafitte of the same year. I realize this observation could be attributed to bottle variability and I also do not have other experiences with this particular vintage.
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3/29/2024 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 99 Points
blind
Very fresh, still primary notes, in perfect shape. 99-100
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2/17/2024 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
A very fine ‘82 Bordeaux but does not reach the usual heights of this contender for wine of the vintage. Nevertheless it is softly fragrant. Very mature. Not as ripe or classic as it can be. Possibly suboptimal storage at some point although the bottle looked good with a neck joint level and good color.
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2/16/2024 - bordeauxmartini Likes this wine: 100 Points
Magical wine and a dream to try arguably the greatest wine from a mythical vintage. Still full of life. Black fruit and some tertiary characteristics. It has everything and will go on for another 50 years. If you can get your hands on a perfectly stored bottle, don’t miss this.
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1/21/2024 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Very good but more angular than other recent bottles
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1/19/2024 - aquacongas wrote: 99 Points
not blind
For me close to his peak. Still black currant but in the same way some secondary and tertiary aromas. No hurry. With Cheval Blanc my favourite 82. 99
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12/24/2023 - johnh1001 wrote: 98 Points
Another brilliant bottle. Even more youthful than the last couple I had
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12/23/2023 - sdr Likes this wine: 97 Points
I was concerned this bottle, a recent purchase from K&L Auction, was fake. The low-mid neck fill was (barely) believable. But the capsule was so bright and clean it looked like it was placed yesterday. The label too was very clean. The cork came out easily and firmly in one piece and was saturated to about one fourth yet was stamped correctly. But on tasting there was no doubt that this was simply a fabulously well preserved bottle with the tell-tale gravely fragrance and firm and juicy black fruit with a hint of fresh thyme that is Latour. Clearly at its majestic peak from perfectly stored bottles such as this.
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12/20/2023 - DWStyle Likes this wine: 98 Points
Drank with JF & GG at Californos. Best bottle of 3. Really opened up with an hour decant. In perfect condition and really drinking beautifully. Has several decades of potential. Probably slighted it a point… maybe a 99!
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12/1/2023 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:
50th Birthday Bash: 10 Vintage Vertical of Latour: This bottle was certified ex-Chateau release and released in 2022. Therefore, it had perfect provenance. This was clearly my #2 WOTN only behind the 1945. Unbelievable nose of utter goodness. This tastes like a 10 year old Latour, not a 40 year old Latour. It is a tightly wound ball of energy that explodes in the glass all the way through the persistent veracious finish. My fourth time tasting this vintage of Latour and thankfully 2nd time this year alone. This is a wine for the ages.
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10/28/2023 - tcarter Likes this wine: 97 Points
Ojai Food + Wine Festival; 10/26/2023-10/29/2023 (Ojai Valley Inn): WOW. This is what great aged Bordeaux should taste like.
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10/14/2023 - oleksarewa wrote: 96 Points
What a beautiful nose on a beautiful wine! Floral and vibrant, couldn’t tell was in bottle for 41 years. Wine began to come on to its own after 4 hours. Would have wanted to decant and taste throughout day! Forest floor and earth beginning to come out. Drinking well now but still has years to go!
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9/29/2023 - johnh1001 wrote: 98 Points
Nothing more to add to the enormous body of notes on this wine. I have had it 4x in the last month and it’s remarkable. Everything you would imagine from a perfectly mature Bordeaux.
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9/21/2023 - randyjc wrote: 98 Points
What a lovely experience. We had saved this bottle to drink for a special occasion and it turned out that drinking it was the special occasion - in celebration of many good things.
The wine appears mature but not four decades. A bit of orangeish around the rim - not clean and clear, somewhat translucent but with a dark core carrying uniform coloring. Truly gorgeous.
The nose is compelling. The minerality comes across as Hawaiian red dirt. Then that gives way fairly quickly to menthol, spicy fruit compote, then a bright red fruit smell. Cherry or currant it seems. Sweet red fruit, whatever it is. Finally, after staying with it for a while there’s a compelling earthiness with a bit of cedar. Amazingly, the red fruit remains all the way to the end and lingers. One of those wines you really want to drink but don’t want to because it smells so good.
Now it’s time to taste. A very manly, masculine wine - assertive and even muscular but regal, with exceptional depth and concentration. The tannins are initially surprising - assertive at age 41. The mouth is somewhat calm, with plush red currant and cherry and a compelling sensuality but then, after swallowing, the wine just blows up. Bright red cherry and quince. A lack of sweetness with the finest tannins I’ve ever experienced. The fruit and cedar, along with fine tannins, carries this wine through a 60 second plus finish which is truly incredible.
When you get way down toward the end, two tertiary characteristics become prominent - pipe tobacco and tar. The most compelling thing on the finish is this gorgeous black tarriness. The entire experience was described best by my friend who said, in her perfect female way, “this wine is like a slow, close dance.” Indeed.
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9/13/2023 - chavehound1986 Likes this wine:
Incredible wine. Still very young with a lot of years ahead of it. Nose not overly expressive but rather refined and elegant. Typical Pauillac. Signature Bordeaux.
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9/7/2023 - Winesellar Likes this wine: 100 Points
Out of the thousands of Bordeaux wine I have had, the 1982 Latour stands as one of the best I have had. Taking 3-5 hours to open up, and then holding until the next day, this wine will continue to evolve throughout my lifetime. A glorious drink, a privilege.
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9/5/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
A spell-binding example of the most, consistently stunning wine from the legendary 82 vintage. Everything here is on target, in-place and balanced. There is a wall of ripe, regal, powerful, black and red fruits with a stately air of refinement and aristocracy that coat and fill your palate, leaving with a seamless, 60-second, plus finish. Drink from 2023-2060.
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7/27/2023 - DWStyle Likes this wine: 97 Points
Pulled the cork and slo-iced in the bottle for 21/2 hrs.. Slight bricking on the rim, core is dark burgundy color .
Nose of old Bdx and cedar aromas, slight TCA smell but it blew off with time. Sweet red and blue fruit flavors. Wine has a light mouth feel, good fruit sweetness on the finish and has persistent length.
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6/5/2023 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 96 Points
Most vibrant and energetic 82 Latour I had from an owc. Very good.
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6/2/2023 - Burgnick wrote: 95 Points
In 3L format. Layered and red fruit. Drinking incredibly well.
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5/22/2023 - fclarity wrote: 95 Points
Tasted blind, this win had a deep red center with red/orange rims. The medium+ intensity nose developed with air to show gravel, black cherries, plums, and some maple syrup.
In the mouth, this wine was ripe with beautiful balance, light tanin, and a long, serious finish.
While starting to drink well, this showed the potential to continued to develop over the next 10+ years. It should add a couple points with time.
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5/18/2023 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
Some Bordeaux (Chicago, IL): Of the 1982s, this showed the youngest and freshest. A very muscular profile, with a good core of fruit underpinning the structure. Impressive freshness for a 1982; it feels like this actually improved in the glass, and well-kept bottles of this should still be able to benefit from cellar time.
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5/18/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Top Mid-Aged Bordeaux ("Chateau La Grange" - La Grange IL): In 1982 flight, this was the obvious star. Black cherry, currant, and plum with traces of liqueur, roasted meat, and cedar. Wonderfully complex and elegant.
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4/16/2023 - Argrath wrote: 97 Points
(Blind tasting)
Full, mature and immediately evident Pauillac-like nose. Sweet, succulent and at the same time cool black currant. Savoury notes of herbs. Cedar and sweet tobacco. Multi-layered. But - a disturbing, old-school, brett character detracts.
Medium-fullish, fullish palate. Mature and mighty. Very balanced. Surprisingly elegant. Very polished. Long, long finish and freshness. Ripe, dense black currant fruit. Cedar, sweet tobacco and barnyard (brett).
A privilege to taste such a legendary wine. The maturity is perfect, the structure is perfect, but the strong old-school brett character detracts and subtracts a point or two in my book.
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2/2/2023 - sdr Likes this wine: 94 Points
An excellent bottle although not near the absolute heights this wine can reach. Medium garnet, orange rim verging on brown. Excellent density, texture and concentration. Subdued tannins, just the right amount of acidity. Full into its secondary stage but the blackberry core is easily discernible. Interestingly, this bottle, sourced a few years ago from Heritage auction showed far better than a comparison bottle purchased on release and perfectly stored. That bottle was thin and astringent without detectable fruit.
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1/22/2023 - aquacongas wrote: 99 Points
blind, tasting together with CB, Lafite and Margaux
For everyone the undisputed winner. Powerful, still fruit but cedar wood, tobacco, and Paulliac typical pencil notes. Beginning to reach his peak. Decanted for 2 hours. There was a glas left for the next day. Still firm and sublime. No hurry. 99
Margaux
The most balanced one but compared to Latour not the length and power. Close to his peak. For me third in range. 96
Cheval Blanc
The first we tried, I was sure it is not CB, because I missed the pepper. Good bottle, but I had it better. My second place. It felt really young. 97
Lafite
In between Latour and Margaux. Not so powerful, not so elegant. I had the Lafite in better shape. It feels to decline in his performance. We will see what the next bottle will show. 95
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1/14/2023 - Philippe_C wrote: 100 Points
What an incredibly concentrated nose of mine de crayon, dark cold fruit, charbon noir… The taste is Pauillac style, masculine, refined tannins, black fruit, cepes de Bordeaux
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1/7/2023 - sdr wrote: 89 Points
Latour, Latour, Latour (WineWatch, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): So disappointing; the ‘82 did not show up. Most of us expected it to be Wine of the Night but alas it was not to be. It’s just this bottle though since 1982 Latour is usually reliable and a strong candidate for wine of the vintage. This one was slightly flat and lacked life and natural sweetness.
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11/18/2022 - vetty Likes this wine: 96 Points
purple fruits, jam, strong tanning and melted with the wine nicely, high acidity, firm structure, mouth coating.
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10/2/2022 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 97 Points
The first pour was blind next to the 1982 Mouton. Deep purple with limited bricking. The nose had hints of charcoal. The palate quickly transformed with air to strawberries, walnut, green pepper, leather and more strawberry on the 15-20 second finish. Outstanding if only just bested by the Mouton, but in a better place than the 1961 Latour the host had opened in a prior tasting (LOTB 96/100). 97/100
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9/24/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
This could be the wine of the vintage. At 40, that is more than long enough for this stunning wine really stand out from the pack. The incredible volume, depth of flavor, concentration, power, and regal bearing must be tasted to believe and understand. The waves of fruit never stop developing. The more than 60-second, and the seamless finish leaves you speechless. Drink from 2022-2050.
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9/17/2022 - WeiT Likes this wine: 100 Points
Profound, mind blowing, nose so heady one doesn’t want to drink the wine! I don’t think I’ve had a wine that comes close to this. No words! Perfect in every sense. Finish so long I want to eat my wine glass.
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9/16/2022 - AValdes Likes this wine: 95 Points
I felt bad drinking this next to 86 Rayas and 02 CLB La Romanee (not to mention all the other great Burgs from the night). Everyone’s palate was tuned in one direction and this turned us in another, and not in a way we desired. Of all the Reds, this was touched the least at the table. Pondered by itself, it’s a gorgeous wine notes of leather, wood, a little flint, long fruits. It is deep in color and still reasonably tight. A shame this profile, for us 6, drew us in the least
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8/4/2022 - peter.mancell@mfg.com.au Likes this wine: 97 Points
Bordeaux at its best….and Bordeaux is not my style
Not hard to see why Robert Parker gave 100/100.
Still huge fruit, great texture and a very long finish.
Wonderful wine to enjoy with glorious eye fillet steak mignon, red wine jus, potatoe dauphinois and greens.
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7/16/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: 99 Points
Not unexpectedly, the nose is much more giving out of this 750 than a recently-tasted magnum, showing off rich, redcurrant and raspberry fruit with walnut, cedar, allspice, and leather complements, developing into a near-perfect, delectable perfume. Dare I say it's even better on the palate and, as much as this *is* muscular, it's shockingly plush for Latour. This expands and expands in the mouth, broad and expansive, fanning out gloriously - this textural attribute is remarkable and is worth attention. As cerebral a wine as this is, it's disarmingly gulpable!
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5/29/2022 - Formerwinemaker Likes this wine: 100 Points
Imperious. As good as any I have had. Soaring aromatics, a melange of red and black fruits, pencil shavings and some spice. Incredible length, intense, rich and powerful, flourishing at the 2 hour mark. Is lightening marginally in colour, a medium red now as it marks 40 years of age. The pinnacle of wine.
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5/15/2022 - englishman's claret wrote:
From magnum, this still seems quite youthful. Tasted just as the cork was pulled and then again about 2 hours later, this is quiet on the nose but reveals an impactful, broad palate with all the strength expected from Latour and a wonderful red fruit, beef blood, old leather character that reminded me in a way of the 1964. But with only small tastes at 2 different time points, I can't claim to have really understood the 82 Latour or all that it is capable of achieving.
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5/4/2022 - peternelson wrote: 92 Points
Spices, sandalwood, medium body, a little spicy, old Bordeaux notes to it, nice nose, slightly exotic enticing aromas, but a bit dried out on the palate. Did not wow anyone, quite average on ranked 2nd to last with a lot of great wines in the lineup. Guessed 2000 Mouton. Blind Dirty Dozen TOC dinner at La Paella
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4/23/2022 - fc1910 Likes this wine: 98 Points
1982 (A vintage dream); 4/21/2022-4/23/2022 (Hotel Jean Jacques Rousseau, La Neuveville, lake Biel, Restaurant des Bains, Avenches, Switzerland): From a perfect bottle,
ultra refined, still demanding but ripe, fine tannin structure,
would recommend to decant this one some more hours before enjoying,
or just wait another decade+,
a very feminine showing for an Chateau Latour,
one of the best bottles of this two days
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4/3/2022 - King Julien wrote: 98 Points
Stood it up the day prior. Carefully popped in the morning to check then poured into small decanter in the evening and served. Outstanding, fully developed, consistent with past notes. Finish went on forever. Absolute heaven.
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2/22/2022 - vintage_whine wrote:
Sleek and only beginning to hit first peak. Rich, with real depth and bitterness of mocha and leather. It’s still purple and the tannins are fat enough to further evolve without softening.
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2/20/2022 - aquacongas wrote: 97 Points
not blind, Double Magnum
Our "table wine". Thanks to the donor. For this size a bit too evolved but in great shape and now great to drink. I guess from a better stored bottle decades ahead. Staring to have tertiary aromas but still black currant. 97-98
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2/17/2022 - dream Likes this wine: 97 Points
A Ferrari compared to the Cheval’s Corvette. Lean with great structure at first and we definitely missed not decanting this earlier. I thought it opened up at the very end of the night and actually passed the Cheval in quality. Deep and dark red fruits with the classic “black earth” flavors of Latour just beginning to show up. The finish was so regal with superb grip and plenty of powerful but smooth tannins and I found an unreal complexity lurking just under the surface. Make no mistake that perfectly stored bottles of this are still youthful and I think greater things await this wine in time. At The Grill, NYC. 97+
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2/6/2022 - Rezy13 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Super Bowl 2022 (Alpharetta, GA): Maroon core with thin rim; great nose, so floral, Margaux?, linear red cherry, currant, boxwood, just entering a secondary stage, pure noble and special just a little straightforward right now, fresh, lifted and beautiful, tannins are fairly relaxed; seems to be entering a good spot, lots of harmony and joy to be found here; a much younger example of a wine that I have put in my top 3 Bordeaux ever, loved this wine but hard to put it above the '78 HB because it just wasn't as ready.
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2/6/2022 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:
Super Bowl 2022 (Alpharetta, GA): Tasted double blind. Best nose of the line up. I could smell it all night long. Flowers & lilacs, more red than black fruit, beautiful & refined. Very left bank, but it is still amazingly youthful. I wrote down '96 Margaux. I was blown away when the wine was revealed as an '82 Latour. It is always a treat to taste this vintage of Latour. This was only the third time I've had it in my lifetime.
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1/31/2022 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 100 Points
Austin 3-star food + wine; 1/30/2022-1/31/2022 (Our residence, Austin, TX): Red wine of a night that included 1959 and 1986 Lafite, 2009 Petrus, 2006 Masseto, 1974 Heitz Martha's Vineyard, 1976 DRC La Tache, and another two dozen similar wines. This was one of the two best Bordeaux I've ever tried. Truly "perfect" for me. Can't imagine better.
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1/4/2022 - Rob Hurley Likes this wine: 100 Points
Having stored this one bottle for over 30 years and decided to open it with my wife, for my 60th, on 'corkage' at a good London restaurant- Medlar, thanks to them. I was nervous as bottle variation for a close to 40year old wine, lower neck, is realistic, though I am a refrigeration engineer:). I needn't have worried, the cork was great, the first sip promised great things, 40mins later served with saddle of venison it was wonderful, still with a dark core, dark fruits, cassis, cigar box and the balance of fruit and acidity on the palate was perfect, with easily a minute long finish. I think it is starting a 10-15yr long plateau, unless ex-chateau (20yr), Can it evolve further, I am not a regular first growth drinker, I doubt it, I just don't see the point, this is wonderful now enjoy it, especially if you only have one! This has Latour power compared to another 100 point wonder- 82 Pichon Lalande, which on drinking 4 years ago had supreme elegance.
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12/31/2021 - King Julien wrote: 96 Points
Top shoulder fill, saturated cork with seepage under capsule and difficult to remove. Popped and poured into decanter and served. One key here was to stand the bottle up the day prior to let all the fine sediment settle to the bottom, then carefully pour. Nose was nice but a bit weaker than previous bottles. Fully mature palate was great for a few hours evolving slightly. Definitely some bottle variance at this age especially for those with unknown storage history.
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12/9/2021 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 95 Points
Top shoulder fill. Lots of dark, rich fruit, nice structure. I have never had this vintage Latour before but I just don’t think this was a perfect bottle, nothing was clearly wrong with it, but I wasn’t blown away. Not nearly as good as some other bottles of 82’ Bordeaux I’ve had quite recently (Mouton, Mission HB, Cheval Blanc, specifically) I’ve had recently, enough so that I think this was a bottle variation problem as I expected this to be at least on the same level as those wines. Still very good, but merely very good and not excellent.
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12/2/2021 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
My goodness! What can be said? God damn life changing. Divine. As tim notes - unreal.
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11/6/2021 - sdr Likes this wine: 95 Points
For me, the star of the show of the birthday party dinner and a reassuringly consistent performance of the wine of the vintage. Surprisingly brown rim on the decant but the body of the wine is a very healthy deep ruby. It’s perfectly mature now. This is a medium full Latour that wins points as much for its graceful beauty as its concentration. The texture is silky for a Bordeaux of its size and this bottle at least seems more St. Julien than Pauiilac. Obviously it will last but there’s no reason to wait any longer.
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10/29/2021 - Philippe_C wrote: 99 Points
Fabulous nose of mine de crayon, black fruit, cedar wood… The tannins are perfecly integrated, still loads of fruit and not yet at its peak… Fabulous wine!!
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10/18/2021 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 Points
Double decanted before serving. Although it is not the best showing of its true class, it still handily beat all the other 82 first growth tonight. It has that Latour elegance that makes it easy to like, but just missing that extra vibrancy to blow you away for its pedigree.
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9/12/2021 - jviz wrote: 100 Points
Purchased on release and stored in a cold cellar. Mid shoulder fill with some corrosion on the capsule. Opened and decanted but served rather quickly from there. Put simply, this is the finest Bordeaux, and by extension red wine that I’ve ever tasted. It is also the first wine I've ever scored 100 and in my own framework, the last of the first growths to taste.
Deeply pitched red to black in the glass. The nose is redolent with black currant, anise, scorched earth and pressed violets. There is some tobacco as well. You have such a hefty weight of pate de fruits on the palate and a finish that lingers and expands. The tannins are resolved but the wine has such raw substance that it’s easy to imaging it developing properly for another decade or two before anything begins to fade. I would say it is beginning to peak now if this bottle is representative. Wow. A towering wine if one can excuse the double entendre.
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9/8/2021 - MC2 Wines wrote:
Epic Bordeaux for an Epic Birthday!; 9/1/2021-9/12/2021 (Paris & Bordeaux): Interesting that the last time I also got the barnyard. For many this was the WOTN but I just couldn't get past that. Not that it's a flavor I don't like, but I expect it more from Rhone than Bordeaux and it doesn't always allow other flavors to express so much. A nice wine but missing the panache of the '71.
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8/31/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
If a wine were a candidate for 101 Pts, this bottle is a clear candidate. Holy FK! I was blown away by the depth, clarity, length and complexity here. The wine has everything you could hope for. A riveting nose, lush, opulent, polished, refined texture and a finish that hits and crosses the 60 second mark.
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8/12/2021 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Still a beast that's just starting to unfurl though secondary/tertiary pencil, tobacco and leather notes certainly playing.
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6/30/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
A Multi Birthday Celebration (Tocco - Winnetka IL): Wonderful aromas with black cherry, cigarbox, clove, earth and cassis hints. similar flavors with good balance and nuance, coming across as very elegant, but just moderately powerful. Served alongside the 1990, this 1982 probably suffered from the comparison with the more intense '90.
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6/28/2021 - ledzep Likes this wine:
Erittäin hyvä, kestää kypsytystä vielä pitkään, muttei parane. Aika lailla täydellinen bordeaux.
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6/11/2021 - Mark S Siegel wrote:
Fantastic wine; held up perfectly. Interestingly, the bottle had a label saying it was stored in the vineyard from 1982 to 2003. Library wine?
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4/24/2021 - Eriklainen wrote:
Decanted, drank over a period of 4hours. Very masculine. A lot of cigarr box, damp earth and pencil lead. Some roses as well but on the whole not very floral. An imposing wine. Aftertaste is stupendous. Bottle and cork in great shape and sure quality is the very best but not sure this would fare well another 80 years as the drinking window in CT suggests.
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4/10/2021 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 96 Points
Typical but quite firm and not yet displaying the energy of some bottles. 96+
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4/3/2021 - King Julien wrote: flawed
Top shoulder fill, very saturated cork with seepage under capsule. Carefully removed cork, nose seemed nice so put in a different cork and later in the day poured into decanter and served. Significant sediment in bottle. Palate was sort of nice but masked by a slight sour flavor so obviously flawed, but still drinkable, although nothing like a typical Latour. Oh well can't win them all. No point to rate this one.
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3/16/2021 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 Points
Decanted for 60 mins before serving. Cassis, tobacco, leather, earth and pine on the nose. Regal and layered palate with good weight and complexity. Not the most flamboyant 82 Latour. Perhaps it just needs a little more time in the decanter.
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2/15/2021 - pigdaddy wrote: 96 Points
ullage low-mid neck; cork in terrific shape, soaked barely 1/3 & tight; decanted 1 hour; deep ruby, minimal lightening; cedar, graphite, minted cherry, herbaceous earth; persistent & intense, yet still comely; wonderful dusty fruit remains long on the decidedly solid finish.
amongst the remaining cache of anniversary wines purchased on release, many of which were consumed too soon; glad we could share them, tho & they remain a testimony to durability & excellence, & the remarkable woman who loved them.
rosemary & butter-roasted wild venison loin, pomegranate molasses & black pepper sauce; parsley spatzle w/chanterelles, broccoli rabe, turnips
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2/9/2021 - grapenomad wrote: 99 Points
Decanted for half an hour, just the right time it needed to breath and soften. Deep ruby in the glass (still!). The nose is a journey through a never-ending spectrum of aromas. Palate is dangerously appealing. Shows a ton of complexity, but the balance is just a masterpiece for itself. I could keep drinking this forever. Easily the best Bordeaux I've tried to date. Wow.
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2/5/2021 - WKC Likes this wine: 96 Points
Decanted for 2 hours. Pencil and lead shavings mixed with grassy and earthy aromas. Secondary characteristics of liquorice and cassis. Perfectly integrated acidity and tannins with slightly sweet taste of chocolate on the palate. Finish could have been longer but this is just beautiful. Superb.
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1/29/2021 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 100 Points
Medium garnet. On the nose, started with a blast of savoury spices, and then redcurrants and then a greyish smoky scent. Vibrant ripe cherry, strawberry, and cassis on the palate, and perfectly balanced with pepper and clove spices, and a fresh minty grassy feel. The charred smoky and graphite depth emerges towards the back, and together with the fruits, led to a complex finish which lasted at least 5 minutes! To date, easily the best representation of Bordeaux I had come across
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1/29/2021 - Formerwinemaker Likes this wine: 100 Points
Tasted as part of a Bordeaux dinner.
This was the star - and was always going to be. Soaring aromatics on opening, which only increased after 2 hours in a decanter. Still deep, rich fruit, everything in balance, persistent finish. An impeccable wine, with a couple of decades in front of it. Could drink this all night.
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1/23/2021 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 95 Points
39th wedding anniversary. The ultimate lockdown bottle for 2? Dug for victory to get crumbling cork out/in but wine in excellent condition. 90min aerated decant through a fine filter to keep cork fragments away.
Deep roasted beefblood red with a touch of browning edges and micro meniscus. Wonderful aromas of focussed brûlée dark berries, ripe cherry and smoke carried forward to the palate. Strap. Lots of integrated dry spice, liquorice, earth, charred oak and a tad of truffle with perfect integrated acidity. Only a (relatively) modest length prevents a higher mark.
Fully ready but should be good for another decade or so based on this bottle - say 50yrs from vintage.
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12/25/2020 - georgeohr wrote:
Corked
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12/24/2020 - Formerwinemaker Likes this wine: 97 Points
Brief decant initially. Looked a touch browner at the edge than I remembered, but the wine coalesced in the decanter and remains a rock solid red/purple at the core. Burst out of the glass, stunning aromatics, reminded me a little of Mouton, lots of blueberries and spice. It’s an imperious wine though, building power over 4-5 hours, before settling. Great length, sweet fruit, impeccable balance, tannins in the background but very refined. Just lacked that final bit of length to score higher. Has decades to go though.
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12/11/2020 - burgcamel wrote:
Corked
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12/6/2020 - sdr Likes this wine: 94 Points
This bottle, purchased decades ago with low neck ullage, was outstanding once again even if not quite up to the level of the very best examples. There’s a tinge of brown at the rim, which I have never seen before in ‘82 Latour. The balance is superb, the persistence is extraordinary, the bouquet is pleasing. It even seems a bit young on the palate but that might be a generous interpretation of the rather straightforward blackberry and dark raspberry fruit. Tannins are well integrated, acidity is excellent. It gets better as it sits in the glass. It’s wonderful to be sure but not obviously Pauillac and lacks some of that indescribable flair that makes a wine truly dazzling. Maybe it needs even more time from well preserved bottles like this one.
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10/27/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
Clearly in contention for wine of the vintage, the nose, with its roasted deep red and black fruits comes along with a plethora of scents headed by smoke, tobacco, spice, cedar chest and forest leaf. Rich, full-bodied, powerful and intense, the wine perfectly meshes its power with a refined, regal elegance that never seems to quit.
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10/18/2020 - aquacongas wrote: flawed
TobI's Firework (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): corked
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9/16/2020 - nebbiol-ho Likes this wine: 97 Points
PNP. In perfect condition. Pure black cherry character, dried fig, cedar/forest, oyster mushroom, white pepper, leather. Silty tannins, nice acid, long finish, gained richness and power as it opened up. A very complete wine.
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8/26/2020 - Paul S wrote: 98 Points
Dog Year Wines (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): Oh wow. A pristine bottle, showing rather youthful at almost 40 years of age, this was a left-bank Bordeaux par excellence. What a nose this had. Classic, classic Pauillac, with lovely draws of cassis and sweet black cherries, then earth and graphite and fragrant wafts tobacco spice. I just loved this. The palate was pure Latour - power, strength and nobility, with a superb structure of fine velvety tannins and perfectly integrated acidty wound around a tremendously pure core of cassis and black cherries, then earth, and mineral, graphite and a little sprinkle of tobacco spice - all wonderfully integrated into a perfect, warmly delicious whole. This almost brought tears to my eyes. As perfect a left-bank as one could ask for. What a finish too - long, effortless, noble, with a beautiful pull of cassis and spice that just refused to quit. Wow. Absolutely wonderful - this was surely one of the greatest Bordeaux wines I have ever had.
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5/27/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 97 Points
Developing glacially, but delicious now. Slippery tangy red fruit.
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4/23/2020 - King Julien wrote: 98 Points
Top shoulder fill and soggy cork with obvious seepage. Popped in the morning to check and it seemed ready so corked back up for later. 7 hours later poured into small decanter and served immediately. Amazing Bordeaux! Ready to go from the start. Very nice nose and incredible fruit. Finish went on forever. Absolute heaven for 3 hours until gone.
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4/3/2020 - RickyT12 Likes this wine: 100 Points
Slow ox 8 hours, which seems to be great for this wine.
Drunk with dinner with an 86 Lafite
Blood red color with nice color gradient to light red edge. Looks much younger than it is. Leather, mushrooms, truffle, cherry. Beautiful nose, very aromatic. Tannins seem to be holding well, but not overbearing. Second transition hint of mint, some green flavors, smoke, cedar, and a little spiciness.
Mouthfeel is pure silk. Amazing balance in this wine.
So perfumie, third transition is wet soil, forrest floor some cranberry Parmesan cheese and some dusty leather boot,
So many great transitions.
Amazing wine. Crushed the Lafite.
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3/8/2020 - overkloud wrote: 97 Points
[Same as last, this is a half bottle]
A much better showing than last. Complexed nose with cooked blackberry, mushroom, cigar and exotic spices. The palate is consistent with the nose, layered and smooth. The finish goes on and on in the mouth. What a wine!
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3/3/2020 - Wine by Bok wrote: 100 Points
“It was good for the 1st hour, but dwindle down the hill thereafter"
more tasting note in finewines.com.sg
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2/15/2020 - dbg wrote:
Jamming with Stu (Dune, Fort Lauderdale): Wow, what great depth, intensity, and complexity, both on the nose and the palate. Dark ripe fruits, cassis, and cherry with some smoky cedary notes. Fascinatingly complex nose. Full bodied, rich ripe layered fruit and complex undernotes of leather, earth, and hints of tar. Long finish with lingering complexity. One of those rare wines where a day later I can close my eyes and experience it all over again. My WOTN, many others at the table felt similarly.
To rank the 82 firsts on this night, I’d say
Latour
Mouton
Haut Brion
Lafite
Margaux
With all but the Margaux killer wines.
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2/15/2020 - sdr Likes this wine: 97 Points
It’s not every day I get to compare all five 1982 First Growths. Yet again on my scorecard and most of the tasters, the Latour was the “winner” although the fabulous Mouton was at virtually the same level. This bottle, purchased on release, showed incredibly young. Bursting with dark berry fruit, red and black licorice, truffle and earth was practically sweet, so intense was it. Tannins are strong and completely integrated, acidity is just right. A real triumph with a great future still.
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2/15/2020 - sdr wrote: flawed
Not corked, not cooked but something very wrong. Pinched and inexpressive, minimal fruit. Down the drain.
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12/24/2019 - overkloud Likes this wine: 95 Points
This is a half bottle.
The red fruit didn't come out until 45 mins later. The wine has great depth and clarity, well balanced. A beautiful wine.
On the other side, probably because of the format size, I can see the reminder of the fruit fades away quickly. I will drinking all of my half bottles in the next 2 years.
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9/17/2019 - La Flama Blanca Likes this wine: 100 Points
Consensus WOTN! Is there really anything else to say that hasn’t been said already? LEGEND!!!
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9/14/2019 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points
Still feels young. Wait.
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7/7/2019 - AshDenver wrote: 100 Points
Hints of guacamole.
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5/19/2019 - Limes wrote:
Excellent drinks perfectly
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4/27/2019 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Latour dinner. Doesn't fail to deliver. Some tertiary nut aromas and palate. Smooth as silk, quite sweet.
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4/26/2019 - d'Artagnan wrote: 97 Points
Nez clairement bordelais, subtil notes de cigare, âgé mais tellement suave. La bouche est en dentelle, elle me faisait penser à un Château Margaux, de toute évidence c’est un très grand vin et un premier crû, dis-je avant dévoilement. La plénitude et la finesse de la finale sont exceptionnelles. Rien ne dépasse, tout est si facile, élégant et délicieux. J’aurais misé sur un 96! Grand vin, mon vin de l'année jusqu'ici. 97 pts
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4/25/2019 - La Flama Blanca Likes this wine: 100 Points
Absolutely stunning from start to finish. Easily one of the best wines ever made in existence. Dark purple core of graphite, cedar, leather, violets, eucalyptus and black currants on the nose. Intense yet elegant with an insanely long 60+ second finish.
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3/6/2019 - aquacongas wrote: flawed
Achim's Magnum Tasting 2017 (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): Da zunächst über Kork diskutiert wurde, kam der Wein in die Karaffe. Drei Stunden später zwar kein klarer Kork, aber da die Flasche war nicht astrein war, keine Bewertung. Schade, hatte ihn schon paarmal in Perfektion genießen dürfen. Magnum. No rating
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2/1/2019 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 98 Points
The 1982 Latour was a little bit wobbly out of the blocks, and I immediately concluded that I had encountered better bottles. But from that point on it just got better and better. Less brooding and backward than other bottles I have encountered it really hit its stride. Cedar, red and black fruits, dense, velvety texture, but at the same time tensile, precise, dense, seamless. The tertiary notes started to come through : autumn leaves, truffle, earth, loam walnuts. Background black and red fruits, multi-layered with an endless finish. Cigar box, cigar wrapper, cool-fruited, regal. A (la)tour de force. One of the greatest wines of the twentieth century.
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10/28/2018 - llink wrote: 96 Points
1982 Bordeaux Tasting (A collector's home): Wine D
Groups #2, My #2
Deep, dark brooding nose showing cedar, anise, black currants and leather. The palate is powerful, tannic and still quite youthful. Graceful and powerful waves of perfectly ripe black fruits wrapped in a velvety texture and long finish. Really special and I suspect in a few years will show better than the 82 Petrus tasted alongside it.
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10/5/2018 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 98 Points
sdr's bottle. The best wine of the night. A nearly flawless wine. The nose was a knockout, with both intensity and complexity. Lots of black currant, cedar, eucalyptus, violets, olive, and sous bois. This wine was perhaps even better on the palate, with its balance and concentration. The structure is intact, with its soft and round tannins. An incredibly long finish with lots of acidic freshness. Has this wine peaked yet? How much better can it get? I wouldn't be surprised if this got even better in the upcoming years.
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10/5/2018 - sdr Likes this wine: 98 Points
Completely different from the previous bottle but equally compelling. Sensational über-classic Latour and perfectly mature. Vestiges only of black fruit, the wine is tense, precise and concentrated with minerals and a panoply of secondary and tertiary aromas. Autumnal flavors of olive tapenade and truffle complement the thick black currant. Endlessly interesting and complex. The color is advanced on this bottle though so I hope it can maintain its equilibrium for years to come.
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9/26/2018 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Dark, brooding. Still a teenager. Amazing density and intensity. Palate staining flavors. Sheer length is impressive. Gummy texture.
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9/10/2018 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
This bottle was surprisingly open for business although this remains a massive, multi-layered Latour who's best days are clearly ahead. Still, the depth of concentrated black fruits are breathtaking and it's also showing classic notes of walnuts, cedar and just the sweetest Latour earth. The finish is very complex even decadent with waves of dark spices and some fecal things but not in a bad way. 96+ From Kovacs cellar at Ralph, Quogue, NY.
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8/24/2018 - Indran Rajendra Likes this wine: 98 Points
Mahogany with opaque core. The bouquet is magnificent. There is an iconic aged cabernet aroma with ground coffee but so much more. Herbs,spice,manure,earth,tobacco,cigar box,camphor, dark chocolate,floral notes, roses,mushrooms, iodine,shoe polish,menthol and old oak. It is an aged bouquet. The palate is full-bodied. Perfectly balanced and integrated. Firm but soft tannins. Flavours reflect the bouquet but there are reminders of its youth with blackcurrant, blueberries, cherries, raspberry and mint, There are charcoal and mineral flavours. The length is never-ending. There is a sense of depth of nature and a calmness yet powerful as well. This wine has a unique personality. Absolutely wonderful. Serving temperature 14 degrees C. Best from 25 minutes from opening to 90 minutes when finished. Riedel Bordeaux glass.NS
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6/22/2018 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 97 Points
A private dinner (Restaurant Bak, Amsterdam, NL): This shows the feminine and fragrant side of Latour, elegant, silky and refined, lifted and floral, velvety tannins still provide grip, very long and very delicious. Perhaps not as ethereal and refined as the bottle tasted in 2009, but still hugely impressive.
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6/22/2018 - MaxSiegel Likes this wine: 99 Points
Easily the wine of the night for me. Concentrated dark fruit but with Latour's signature notes on full display. Lots of tobacco, graphite, and cedar. Latour's magic is just how pronounced those savory notes can become without the wine drying out at all. This has the structure to hold up for many more years, but it is stunning right now.
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6/20/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Acker Auction - June 2018 (Laduree NYC W Broadway): This is also a bit tight and slightly closed although a bit more expressive than the '86 Lafite from right before. It's barnyard funk on the nose all the way and then mostly black fruit jumping out of the glass. A touch of the barnyard at the end. Nice wine.
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6/14/2018 - Bobby Burgundy wrote: flawed
Not good
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6/12/2018 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 98 Points
Latour Big Vintages (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): Similar to 70 but much younger, rougher and mightier, awesome tannin structure, cassis, graphite, pencil, dense, concentrated. you still have the feeling it is not balanced. give him at least 10 more years. 98+
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5/12/2018 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Long way to go. Fragrant with leather notes, subtle. Builds throughout palate.
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5/9/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
Stunning from top to bottom, and from start to finish, this is a strong contender for wine of the vintage. With mouth coating layers of dark red fruits, tobacco, cigar wrapper, cedar wood and smoked earth aromatics, the wine kicks off with all the right stuff. But it is on the palate where the wine is really on full display. Intensity, length and regal in character, there is a firmness to the structure along with elegance and formality in the finish, which by the way must stick with you for 60 seconds! Thank God I have friends that can afford this. Because it really is a benchmark wine that at close to 30 years of age is almost in the right place for prime time drinking. Well stored bottles should offer pleasure until 2082!
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5/1/2018 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 95 Points
From half bottle.
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4/4/2018 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Arbor Magnums. Love the silky texture, but felt shorter than usual and fuzzy.
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4/1/2018 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 98 Points
From half bottle. Great bottle, not displaying much development in this format versus 750. Everything is here, just needs time. 98+
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3/19/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 95 Points
1982 Bordeaux Horizontal (Bar Boulud): This nose has bright red cherry and ripe blackberry fruit, aromatically expressive and showy, and quite opulent. On the palate this has bold red and black fruit upfront and then softens nicely mid palate. Guessed Lafite and it was Latour. Pleasantly surprised by how approachable and showy this was. The classic Latour brawn is still evident, but this is quite an integrated and expressive example tonight.
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3/16/2018 - Zweder wrote: 96 Points
Occasional dinner group: Bordeaux 1982 (@ Treeswijkhoeve, Waalre, Netherlands): Beautiful bouquet with dark berries, stable smells and autumn impressions. On the palate a delicious wine with still dark berries, cedar, beautiful oak, good acidity and tannin and a beautiful sweet note. 96 - 97
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2/28/2018 - sdr Likes this wine: 100 Points
Latour vs. Mouton Mini-Vertical (3030 Ocean, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): Hugh’s bottle, purchased on release. Yes, ‘82 Latour is a perfect wine, jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Before you raise the glass to your mouth, the beguiling perfume of black currant, cassis, violet and rose assaults you. You fear the flavor will not live up to the incredible aroma, but you have worried for naught. Perfectly spherical, juicy, majorly fruity yet framed by perfect silky tannins, minerals and just the right amount of acidity, each sip lingers for minutes. Surely the greatest Bordeaux of this storied vintage. Who knows how it will age even further but it can’t get any more beautiful than it already is.
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2/8/2018 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 99 Points
This was a killer dinner based on first growths of 82 and 83, all from 6 Liter format. This one came out of the gate so young compared to the 720 i had two weeks ago but within 30 minutes it was rocking. Classic Latour, powerful, intense and long
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2/1/2018 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 95 Points
More subdued than usual, although not permitted a proper decant.
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1/26/2018 - OenoEd wrote: 93 Points
Elegant and long, opened for two hours, but this bottle seems shut down tonight, 3 beautiful notes in a sonata; nothing "off" about this wine, its just oddly restrained. I think Latour sometimes takes a nap, but given recent laudatory reviews by trusted tasters, Im at a loss for why this is so narrow tonight.
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1/17/2018 - ricknat1 wrote: 99 Points
Gorgeous. The only thing this wine can do to be better is to age.
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12/16/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
Words cannot do this justice. The wine is incredibly concentrated, powerful, rich and yet, firm, regal, refined and elegant. At a tasting of close to 20 different 1982 wines, this was the wine of the tasting! And that is saying something. The intensity found here, does not quit! There is layer after layer of depth. On the palate, the wine just keeps on going and never quits. Freshness, kingly refinement length and expansiveness are all part of the game. Popped and poured, decanting would have helped. Further cellaring would assist as well. I am sure future generations with well stored bottles, especially in magnum with be drinking this until it's at least 75 years old, or longer!
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12/16/2017 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 97 Points
Decanted for 90 mins. Another fantastic showing of this wine. Nose has herbs, blood, iron, red currant, black currant, perfume, cedar wood, tobacco and smoke. Palate is still so youthful and vibrant. It is so elegant yet powerful that it coats your mouth and palate. Very complex and giving. I think this wine easily has 20-30 more years ahead of it. I hope this will be like 61 Latour today in 20 years. 97-98
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11/21/2017 - whiffle Likes this wine: 95 Points
Immediately upon pulling the cork, a rush of red and black fruit hits the senses. After decanting for an hour, nose displayed nuances of above mentioned fruit, freshly tanned leather, pencil shavings and crushed rocks. Tannins virtually gone once savored on pallet. Served to prime-cuts of beef where cuvée intermixed with juices from the beef portrayed a climax to the experience. Long lasting finish proclaiming it still has a long life ahead. My favorite ‘82 First Growth to date.
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11/15/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 96 Points
Château Latour Vertical (Vaucluse): Fantastic nose, reminiscent of the ‘90 in terms of opulence and projection in of the glass. Leathers, bold minerality, and damp earth influenced red fruit. Great bouquet, bold and striking. A distinct spice here as well. Palate is still big and isn’t as round and pleasurable as the sensational nose suggests, but is still great. Sometimes '82s don't live up to the hype, but this was fantastic and is a bottle I'd really like to have more of.
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11/2/2017 - mattiasjansson wrote: 98 Points
Latour and Sine Qua Non weekend; 11/2/2017-11/3/2017 (Edina, MN): Medium-dark red. Very fragrant, intense nose. Still fruit-forward and tannins are notable, but tertiary characteristics are adding multiple levels of interest. Unlike the '61 opened the same evening, which opened up magnificently but slowly degraded in the glass, the '82 just got better and better. Finish goes on what seems like forever. Ultimately, it didn't quite reach the initial near-perfection of the '61 but it came damn close. This is in a great place now and will continue to be for decades.
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11/2/2017 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 98 Points
First and almost last wine tasted. Big, bold, fragrant nose, good color, showing age. Big mouthfeel and long finish. Loved this wine and will continue to love this wine. Wow.
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10/7/2017 - King Julien wrote: 96 Points
Saturated cork with some seepage, top shoulder fill. Slow ox for 5 hours, then decanted for 1.5 hours. Nose stayed weak but palate evolved over the next few hours. Very nice, but unfortunately not as good as some previous bottles.
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8/12/2017 - tinybubbles wrote: 94 Points
A more advanced bottle than is typical, likely reflective of storage.
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6/25/2017 - burgcamel wrote: 99 Points
Still a bit too young for my taste but a truly exceptional wine. Next time I will give a longer decant. Interestingly, I recently tasted this a against the 82 Lafite. I actually, liked the Lafite better. Last night tasted against the 82 Lafleur. All these are outstanding wines by any measure!
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6/18/2017 - King Julien wrote: 96 Points
Wet cork with some seepage, top shoulder fill, bit of barnyard. Slow ox for 3 hours, then double decanted for an hour. Needed yet another hour to really get going. Very nice, but not as good as some previous bottles.
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6/3/2017 - Aravind Asok wrote:
'82 Bordeaux and Friends (Rene's): (Tasted blind) Completely shut down on the nose at first, but with some swirling in the glass, opened up incredibly. A touch of vegetal/charcoal at first, then opening up with more perfume and black fruit. Texture was just ok at first, but then became rather silky; the finish was amazingly tannic. Definitely left bank.
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5/25/2017 - DrZett Likes this wine: 95 Points
Great 1982 vs 1990 Vintage Tasting (Rare-Bordeaux-Weine, Wachtberg (Germany)): Young but really enjoyable right now. Great ripe red berries and some leather and tobacco. Soft tannins and a looong finish.
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5/11/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 96 Points
World's Greatest - Night I (Eleven Madison Park): Similar but bolder nose than that on the Lafite with more blue and blackberry fruit as opposed to rustic earth. This palate is bigger than the Lafite as well with more structure and stuffing. Showy for Latour, but also pretty true to forum. Deep, dark, and rich. A beauty but still a bruiser.
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5/11/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 98 Points
Decadent nose with white pepper, light tar, cedar and dark red fruit. Deep, dark and rich palate. Phenomenal wine from better bottles. 98+
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4/24/2017 - KenK Likes this wine: 97 Points
Big Boy Bordeaux Spring Dinner (Morton's Northbrook): Awesome aromas of heady black cherry fruits with a very slight dusty dirty edge. Smooth rich dense core of black spicy fruits dominated the flavor profile and make the wine very special. Quite smooth and rich, very pretty. Just a bit of earthy must detracts on the margin. A spectacular wine holding very well, although I think there may be even better bottles out there. Thanks Kevin, a real treat!
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4/23/2017 - King Julien wrote: 96 Points
Wet cork with a bit of seepage, top shoulder fill. Slow ox for 6 hours, then poured into decanter and let it sit for an hour. This one needed yet another hour or so to start singing. Nice nose and palate after some air, but not as great as the last bottle.
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4/3/2017 - King Julien wrote: 98 Points
Slow ox for 8 hours, then poured into decanter and served. Nose was nice but a little reserved, palate was outstanding! Drank over a few hours.
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3/24/2017 - MC wrote:
Decanted 45 minutes, but the fruit soared from the bottle as it was opened - and the first swirl and taste upon decanting were absolutely fantastic. Yes, still young and more great things to come, but this was absolutely wonderful to drink last night. So young in color, with dark fruits and graphite on the nose, along with some nice earth and secondaries. So rich and concentrated, yet showing great balance and a long finish with the tannins hardly noticeable. This was all I had hoped it would be after hesitating to open or wait - certainly remaining bottles will hold for many years and improve a bit, but this is a joy to drink right now. After about 90 minutes it did seem like it was shutting down just a bit, and possibly needing some time in the decanter to open back up - so keep that in mind for the next one. A
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12/25/2016 - RickyT12 Likes this wine: 99 Points
Slow oxed for 7 hours. This is my third bottle out of a half case. I believe the slow ox method goes well with this wine. Amazing stuff. Earthy at first then cherry, tobacco, cedar, comes out. Smooth as velvet as you drink it. Pure sophistication, wither so much happening in it. Still has 20 years easy in my opinion. Great wine!
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12/15/2016 - RickyT12 Likes this wine: 100 Points
Slow ox 6 hours
Wow. Smells great.
Thick clear rim on top.
Cherry, cherry luden, leather, soy sauce, dust, cedar box, tobacco, long finish, just very sophisticated. Mouth feel is velvet, finish is 30 seconds. Weight medium, acid medium, several transitions on this wine from cherry and strawberry fruit, moving towards cedar box and tobacco. Great wine and still has energy.
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12/15/2016 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 97 Points
Achim's Magnum Tasting 2016 (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): From magnum
the bottle was from a perfect cellar, so the bottle was even after 4 hours of decantation too closed and firm, you feelthe power the graceness but the beauty is hidden behind the structure and tannins of the wine, the same for the Mouton 1982 from MG, 97-100, will survive at least 30 more years
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11/11/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
A reticent bottle. Closed on the nose, good balance on the palate but without the striking intensity that this wine should exhibit.
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11/4/2016 - svdheijden wrote: 98 Points
Opened 12 hours before dinner. Ullage in neck. Very closed and inaccessible at first. Slowly opening up, but remains incredibly young at 34. Seducing nose with huge intensity. Black fruits, cedar, tobacco, cassis. Even younger on the palate with vibrant freshness, great balance and soft but very present tannins. Everything present but certainly not performing at its peak yet. Incredibly long and pleasant finish. I'll wait 10 years before the next bottle.
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10/25/2016 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 98 Points
Double decanted for one hour. Beautiful nose with sous bois, black fruit, truffle, cedar wood and mushroom. Palate has good weight and very nice black fruit sweetness. Very elegant and balanced.
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10/23/2016 - sdr Likes this wine: 98 Points
It's Latour, it's vintage '82 and it's wonderful, no surprise for this bottle purchased on release with ullage into neck and bright healthy color. Beautiful balance, the tannins are ripe and well integrated, the acidity is just right and the fruit is almost lush. A nice touch of Pauillac dirt rounds out the impression. Both mature and youthful. Markedly different from the '82 Ducru and '82 Pichon Lalande we had with it.
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10/23/2016 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 99 Points
If not for the 82 Pichon Lalande next to it, this would have been the wine of the night. But it's like choosing 1a and 1b with these two wines. The Latour is still showing very young. The nose was fantastic, with so much complexity. Black currant, cedar, brown spices, forest floor, and tobacco. This wine is even better on the palate, with incredible balance and concentration. Lots of tannic structure, but the tannins are soft and round. A long finish with lots of freshness. Compared to the Lalande, this wine has darker fruits, is more primary, but does have a bit more earthy character. This has decades left in the tank. I'm guessing this hasn't reached its peak and will get even better from here.
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10/17/2016 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 99 Points
Perfect balance, rich, complex, opulent black fruit, impeccable mouthfeel, multilayered, so complete, absolutely breath-taking. When I drank this for my 50th in 2013 it was just perfect and an easy 100 points. Last night it was still a little on the young side, and not as exotic as the Mouton.
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10/6/2016 - King Julien wrote: 95 Points
Popped and poured into decanter. Cork broke coming out. Not much on the nose. After an hour the palate improved but still not much nose even with aggressive swirling. Palate was nice, but weak. Stayed the same for several hours until it was gone. Perhaps an off bottle.
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10/2/2016 - Sonoffalstaff wrote: 94 Points
Very precise with an engaging nose of cedar and dark fruits but you had to work hard to really find them. As you would expect wonderfully balanced wine, with just the right acidity and plenty of length and complexity revealing a wide range of fruit and mineral flavours. But somehow lacking in wow factor. We had a Monbousquet 99 two nights later and it was the more enjoyable wine. Good news for those who have large format is that it is still v youthful.
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9/30/2016 - Andrewbdc wrote: 98 Points
Black Lion Wine Club - Latour and Friends (The Black Lion): The wine is clear and medium garnet in colour.
The nose is clean with pronounced aromas of ripe and opulent black fruits (black currant, blackberry, black cherry), spice (liquorice), herbaceous (blackcurrant leaf), oak (clove, vanilla, smoke), dried fruit (prune, date), tertiary development (cedar, tobacco, mushroom). The wine is developing.
The palate is dry with medium (+) acidity, medium (+) alcohol, full body, medium soft ripe fine tannins, pronounced flavours of blackcurrant, blackberry, vanilla, cedar, tobacco. The finish is long.
The wine is outstanding quality. The concentration of aromas and flavours is extraordinary, opulent, with multiple layers. The descriptors above do not really do justice to the complexity of the wine. The finish is incredibly long and persistent. The acid and tannins do however still provide balance to the fruit.
The wine can be drunk now but is suitable for further ageing (general opinion seems to be up to 2040, I wouldn't argue with that). It has the concentration of fruit, supported by the acid and tannin structure, to continue to develop for many years to come, adding greater tertiary complexity. Arguable the wine is remarkably youthful for its 34 years.
One of the most extraordinary wines I have drunk. Why haven't I given it 100 points? Possibly because I lack a benchmark (first time for a Bordeaux First Growth). Possibly because, amazing as it was, it didn't quite blow me completely away. But that is nit-picking, it certainly is an amazing wine.
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9/18/2016 - RaphaelMalago wrote: 100 Points
Latour 82 – this wine is unbeatable as one of the best wines I’ve ever drunk. Austere nose that takes over impressively still with red fruits, gooseberry, cedar, spice touches but with so much integrity that it smells like a 10-12 year old wine. The palate is still full, flamboyant. A remarkable wine that I hope medicine will take me to drink one of those magnum’s with 100 years.
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9/11/2016 - BradE wrote:
My last bottle of 82 Latour, and a nice way to end the run. Lovely, and my WOTF.
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8/12/2016 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points
Mostly Bordeaux dinner with Bob (Magdalena restaurant at the Ivy Hotel, Baltimore): Slightly leaner than I expected. Classic Pauillac nose, lead pencil, cedar and leather. Also subtle cassis, a hint of truffle and tree bark. Quite silky and precise, youthful cassis driven palate impression, nicely integrated tannins and clean mineral and cedar driven finish. Though thoroughly enjoyable, not perfect.
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7/16/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 97 Points
Powerful and yet elegant dark and red fruit. Great balance of organic soil and leaf tones with spices. On the younger side as far as this wine goes, this bottle needed another 10 years to reach its first plateau
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7/12/2016 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 98 Points
Wine Monuments Man Chapter 1 (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): Decanted for 4 hours, IN filling level
Typical Pauillac, cassis, graphite, red berries, phantastic acidity, ripe tannins, silky but still alive and giving a great backbone, cedarwood, cigarbox, licorice, six months before from MG fresher and longer in the finish, this time only 98, at least 20 more years before reaching his top
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7/8/2016 - jeremy@ Likes this wine: 99 Points
Great nose cherries red fruit earth spice tobacco very nice soft and smooth. Fine tannins very mild. Medium finish.
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5/22/2016 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 98 Points
Fill in lower neck; cork damp yet intact. Dark reddish garnet in color with ever-so-very-slight clearing at the edges. Forward, attractive & aromatic complex nose of fruit aromas of dark cherries, blueberries and cassis with classic overtones of cigar box of cedar & tobacco & floral notes of violets, earthy/dusty, leather, truffles, graphite, herbal notes of mint, spice notes of pepper, coffee notes, minerals, smoky and a hint of vanilla in the distant background. Full bodied with a very good concentration of silky smooth, complex ripe dark fruit flavors of cherries, blackberries & plums with cedar, earthy, herbs, mushrooms, spices, minerals and a touch of vanilla. Long, lingering silky smooth finish. Although it may be at or very close to its peak, it has the fruit & structure to hold onto this current plateau for quite a while longer. The classic "iron fist in a velvet glove."
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5/3/2016 - hiker_guy Likes this wine:
Tasted side by side with the '66.
Amazing how the two were so similar in profile with the '66 showing just slightly more bricking.
This wine was clear dark ruby with slight bricking around the edges. Nose and palate were very structured at first but the fruit was there for the patient. Lovely wine to sit and contemplate for a couple hours.
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5/2/2016 - dpolivy wrote: 97 Points
DRC Tasting Group: Bordeaux Night (Seattle, WA): Tasted blind. A hint of green pepper to start. Lovely nose. Body -- wow. Soft and so elegant, supple, and lithe. Red fruit, spice, tobacco, earth. Amazingly persistent on the finish, with exceptional length, fine tannins, and great balance. Keeps you coming back for more!
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4/16/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
This wine can be perfection in a bottle. Sadly, while this was close, with its heady perfume, full bodied, concentrated palate presence, it was no cigar. Freshness, layers of perfectly ripe, juicy, cassis, tobacco, cigar box, ash, earth and cedar, at close to 40, this will easily go another 40 years. I wish I showed as young as this wine!
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4/3/2016 - King Julien wrote: 98 Points
Decanted 1 hour. Great over the next 2 hours then seemed to fade a little. Nice long finish.
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3/26/2016 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Second time I can recall tasting this wine, and even though it's been some years, the wine still strikes me as quite young. Tannic and not giving much even after an hour in the glass. It's monolithic to my taste, but my palate leans heavily toward Burgundy.
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3/20/2016 - danielbleier wrote: 99 Points
Preferred this to 1982 Mouton, although both are fantastic. This seemed less mature - still somewhat youthful with dark black fruit flavors balanced with wet stone. Hints of menthol and cigar box are there as well. Should be good for 20+ years.
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3/12/2016 - the player Likes this wine: 100 Points
Liquid poetry to quote Hemingway! He had a thing for Margaux, my heart belongs to Latour. I don't know how other Cellar trackers can rate this wine below 100. This wine has the hand of God Involved. Where do I start as such complexity leaves me absolutely confounded. Deep ruby red color, hardly any signs of aging with some bricking throughout the body of the wine. Very complex nose of cassis, graphite, leather, mushrooms with an overlay of bitter chocolate. Finesse, power, complexity, structure, multiple layers on the palate, velvet entry on the palate, the wine has a foot in heaven and another on earth. Great acidity mid palate, finishes eternally long and complex. A true masterpiece, wine craft at its best.
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2/4/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 98 Points
Rich and deep and yet only beginning to show its potential. Precise red and dark fruit, dusting of black and white pepper, coal dust, cedar and faint sandalwood, dry soil, tobacco. Well stored bottles, of which this was one, appear to require 10+ years to reach their next plateau. 98+
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1/22/2016 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 99 Points
Château Latour vertical tasting ((Wine Watch, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)): This was clearly the wine of the night. The nose was simply amazing, complex and layered. Black currant, cedar, brown spices, licorice, and tobacco. Pure perfection on the palate, from the attack to the finish. A long finish that left a sense of currant and sweet tobacco. Easily one of the best wines I’ve ever tasted. This baby will sing for decades.
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1/1/2016 - KoalaHK wrote:
At Giando's Star Street in Hong Kong - This wine has almost never disappointed me and tonight was no exception. '82 Latour in bottle is still in the early stages of its plateau of maturity. If you love Bordeaux you need to try this wine as it is the definitive expression of how good mature (and probably still improving) claret can be.
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12/10/2015 - SonnyChiba wrote: 98 Points
Latour Dinner with Frederic from Chateau Latour. Bottle was straight from the Chateau and in perfect condition. Definitely the highlight of the night. Interestingly Frederic mentioned that this vintage, along with many back then, the selection process at the vineyard wasn't as careful as these days and all kinds of things made it in, yet the wine has aged so well and is incredibly good. Has some light bricking, beautiful color. Caramel, orange peel, cedar, dark plum, little bit of tobacco. Getting a little tired, but has lots of life left still. Overall, really beautiful wine from an awesome year! Glad I can cross this one off the list.
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12/3/2015 - reichken wrote: 99 Points
deep dark color, nose and mouth for that matter of purple fruit wrapped in a chocolate cigar box. full mouth and long long finish with real grip. this wine is 33 but alive and kicking
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12/1/2015 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
1982 blind tasting. Finished second to Mouton. Needed more time, very long. Fun to drink.
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11/29/2015 - RickyT12 Likes this wine: 100 Points
Slow Ox 5+ hours
Nice Ruby red
Leather, blueberry, Asian spice, graphite, ink, fig, so perfumie. Even some vegetable coming through on a nose Nose is crazy, so powerful compared to other 82s I have had.
Flavors graphite, Asian spice, blueberry, nice gaminess.
Finish is insane 30-40+ seconds. Mouth feel is unbelievable silky feel to it.
1hour after the start a creaminess comes out on nose as well as truffle type flavors.
2 hours in more transition
Tobacco, beautiful coffee, and tiramisu on nose and flavor comes out. Acid medium, weight medium minus. Killer stuff!
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11/7/2015 - johnh1001 wrote: 96 Points
This bottle tasted very young. Extremely backward. Needs another 20 years.
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11/6/2015 - Bordeaux_Jon Likes this wine: 96 Points
The Super Platinum Tasting - Highest Rated 1982 - 1990 Left Bank Bordeaux (Platinum Tasting Group): Tasted single blind in a flight of 100 point Parker wines, all 1982-1990 Left Bank Bordeaux.
Relatively speaking, this wine was a disappointment for me considering all the hype around it. Yes, it was a great wine, but it was overshadowed by many others in this blind tasting. I had heard it was the best of the 1982s but this bottle did not take my breath away.
The nose started with a lot of black fruit and oak. It then moved to cigar, saddle leather, and a lot of brett. I think for me there was too much brett which hid what could have been more complexity. At times the other elements snuck through but it didn't consistently deliver like the other wines.
On the plate it was fruit, cigar, and some herbalness. Very smooth, but not with the intensity of other wines. In other company it might have really shined but not today. However, others, who presumably loved the brett, liked it a heck of a lot more.
My #7, the group's #1.
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11/6/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 96 Points
Great Wine Dinner with Friends (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): Open and decanted a couple of hours before serving. One of the most vibrant and fresh examples of this wine i can ever recall. Inky and dense with great power.
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10/26/2015 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 100 Points
8 Great Bordeaux
1.Flight Latour 1990 MG vs Lynch Bages 1989 MG
2 Flight La Mission Haut Brion 1989 vs Haut Brion 1989
3.Flight Mouton 1982 vs Latour 1982 MG
4 Flight Mouton 1986 vs Lafite 1986
Opened 24 hours before, for me WOTN, maybe because it is from Magnum, unbelievable extract sweetness, comparable to Priorat but much more elegant and finer and the lower alcohol level gives this wine a tremendous balace. You feel espresso, cacao, cassis and graphite. Tobacco and smoke. now in a great drinking window. will survive the next 30 years, 100
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10/20/2015 - elamasters Likes this wine: 100 Points
Chateau Latour Vertical Tasting - TWG (Des Moines): Beautiful, mature wine. Tannins are nicely resolved, leaving a lovely satin texture. Full bodied with lots of dark fruit. Classic Latour nose of walnuts, cassis, and gravel. Very complex. At peak drinking window, in my opinion.
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10/10/2015 - Rezy13 Likes this wine: 98 Points
Ok, now we're talking! smutty nose, wet earth, ox blood, Cuban cigar, broad and expansive, slight herbs but sweet currant and dried cherries, tanned leather; palate is refined and silky from time in bottle, awesome mid, mushrooms, meaty, still enough texture to suggest a relative youthfulness; awesome wine, long finish and addictive,the essence of Latour, a classic example, can understand why others rate this 100.
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7/11/2015 - Meneley wrote:
Delicate dried red berries intermingled with tobacco leaf. Long, savoury finish. A stunning wine. Has the "wow" factor! LO
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6/5/2015 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 99 Points
Strong umami tinge to the nose with significant truffle presence. Deep dark fruit, bell pepper, black pepper, white pepper. Green tobacco, dark earth and faint cedar balance the fruit on the palate. Superior to the bottle six months prior. 99+
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6/5/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
This is so good, the scale should be adjusted to allow for 101 Pts! This is everything a great Bordeaux needs to be with its majestic blend of silk, velvet and power. The exotic nose is compelling, with its cassis, blackberry, tobacco, earth, cigar box, cocoa, and dark chocolate nose. But the real action takes place on your palate. Layer after layer of perfectly ripe, sensuous, powerful fruit coats your palate and stays there, lingering and expanding for over 60 seconds.
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4/25/2015 - King Julien wrote: flawed
Flawed bottle, cork came out in pieces, good but not great.
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4/19/2015 - joshbryer Likes this wine:
Absolutely stunning nose, with sweet dark fruit notes and savory sweetness lingering. Resolved and perfectly balanced in the mouth with poise, lush mouthfeel and long finish, amazing mix between secondary character and fruit presence. Hauntingly good wine.
I don't do scores, but this would be perfect or close.
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4/18/2015 - johnh1001 wrote: 96 Points
Totally different experience than the last bottle. Refined, almost reserved on the nose with dense dark fruit, tobacco, herbs and leather. This carried through to the palate which was very deep and concentrated and almost seemed like it needed a few more years to open up--and as the evening progressed, I came to believe this wine is just getting started. Ultra long finish with subtle, but present tannin and more tobacco and graphite. Amazing balance.
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4/4/2015 - sdr Likes this wine: 100 Points
I usually do not consider Latour an especially fragrant wine and that its attraction lies on the palate. But this perfectly preserved bottle purchased on release with low neck level proved me wrong with its stunning bouquet of cassis, blackberry, cedar and spice which faded not a bit over 3 hours. The palate presence was equally spectacular with flavor echoing the bouquet precisely and lasting indefinitely to the warm crisp finish of perfect harmony. Bordeaux, or any wine, does not get any better than this.
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2/14/2015 - beatles wrote: 99 Points
Is this the perfect Bordeaux-wine? I think so. Still young, but in smooth, seamless harmony and restrained elegance, that put all others to shame; tailor cut and so fine, tich in an aristocratic fashion. Bravo (and thank you, Ib). #LaTour#Aalborg
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1/19/2015 - Eric wrote: 98 Points
Pre Davos Wine Forum tasting (Zumikon, Switzerland): Caramel, green, kinky and surprisingly exotic. The fruit is pure and mineral and certainly quite generous, definitely reflecting the vintage. The tipoff to Latour is the sneaky length and very powerful grip that kicks in about 30 seconds after the finish.
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1/15/2015 - Peter Gerlach-Hansen Likes this wine: 99 Points
Very Latour wish it Would be like this for ever. NOT aggressive but highly drinkebly almost a bit feminine
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1/7/2015 - sdr Likes this wine: 95 Points
Deep and mature, surprisingly mellow. Regal, very Cabernet Sauvignon with the softness and complexity that comes with age. This bottle purchased on release with a low neck fill and firm cork which came out easily in one piece.
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1/7/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
This was a very good bottle of a great wine. The experience can be much better, which is saying something, since this was so good. With a nose of fresh herbs, cedar chest, forest floor, cassis, tobacco and spice, the wine is rich, full bodied and filled with fruit, earth and powerful, sensuous textures. There is the perfect blend of silky tannins and power. This is elegance at its best.
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11/15/2014 - fcxj wrote: 98 Points
Perfect claret
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11/14/2014 - dream Likes this wine: 97 Points
"20 Vintages of Latour at Daniel." A gorgeous, full-bodied, rich and terroir-driven Latour that should easily merit 100 pts. one day. This bottle gave just a hint of fabulous complexity on the finish suggesting the '82 may be finally emerging from it's dumb phase that has persisted over the past few years. What a gorgeous, silky yet full vintage. 97+
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11/11/2014 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 98 Points
Dark nose with coal, tar and dark earth. Tannins balanced by a nice sweetness with plum and black raspberry. This vintage has a well deserved reputation. Decanted for two hours.
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10/30/2014 - Lord Rayas wrote: 99 Points
decanted for an hour. glorious aromas. supremel regal structure. had a little dip midway through in terms of expressiveness. a perfect claret otherwise.
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8/10/2014 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
Great wines are going to be different in character, but they are not going to get better than this. The wave of fruit that drenches your palate is packed with polished, elegant, lush berries. The nose is a turn on and the finish last over 60 seconds. To use a quote from one of my favorite movies; "The Maltese Falcon," "This is the stuff dreams are made of."
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6/20/2014 - pixie87 Likes this wine: 94 Points
This is different from the last- Less dramatic, no orchestra playing. It starts off with velvet violets, very promising, fresh and active. Dark red with the slightest bit of tawny. Slowly, the fruit appears, soft and round, fragrant yet stoic. But this is more of a string quartet, the music is calming but fading slowly into the background, it is there but it is not. This is ephemeral, the memory of power.
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5/26/2014 - pixie87 Likes this wine: 99 Points
The 1982 Latour is like sitting in an empty theatre, a regal historical theatre. Plush red velvet seats all around you and a warm glow from the lights above. A violin starts to play, slow and melodic, achingly beautiful, and then the orchestra starts up gently, playing a sonata, quiet and serene, music for you alone. This is quite perfect.
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5/23/2014 - ricknat1 wrote: 96 Points
Strange night. First bottles (from Morell) cork was completely gone and wine tasted and smelled off so I opened another (from Vinfolio) and it was amazing. Towards the end of the night, we checked the first bottle and it had come around. The second bottle was a 96, hitting on all cylinders, classic Latour. All that will make it better is more time. The first was a 93, still very nice and if we had not just had a perfect bottle it might have garnered higher ratings.
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4/17/2014 - BUBBA DAWG Likes this wine: 97 Points
Charity Event - French Tasting (Restaurant Daniel): lush, massive, explosive, chewy but not heavy...very special...best of the 1982s tasted
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3/29/2014 - sdr Likes this wine: 98 Points
A brilliant performance from this legendary wine. Massive, concentrated, endless length. The black fruitiness is in full display in a mysterious charcoal way. This time that descriptor is meant to be a compliment. This bottle purchased on release and had a low neck level.
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3/5/2014 - DavidF90210 wrote: 100 Points
One of the greatest wines of my life
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1/17/2014 - Wine_lvr Likes this wine: 99 Points
"Best of the Best" Tasting (Switzerland): Tasted blind: Clear intensive garnet in color. Nose of leather, smoke, tar, exotic herbs, coffee and red berries. The wine has power, is highly complex, perfect balance between tannins, acidity, sweetness and it has an unbelievable length. Flavors of coffee and red berries. This wine still feels young and is one of the best wines I have tasted so far. In the past 4 weeks I am fortunate enough to taste this true beauty and modern day legend for the second time. Just wonderful Drink now - 2040
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12/28/2013 - sdr wrote: 94 Points
Purchased on release and low neck level and very dark color just beginning to show orange at the rim. This is the apotheosis of Chateau Latour. All I could think is was "black." Black ink, black berry, black mushroom, black truffle, ash, smoke, asphalt. Immense power and muscle, not because of tannin because that had melted totally into the liquid. Very, very impressive at this stage of its life.
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12/26/2013 - Biglama Likes this wine: 98 Points
boem! dat is 'm. Pure verleiding, wat een finesse en puurheid. staat als een huis, voor de eeuwigheid!
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12/20/2013 - Wine_lvr wrote: 99 Points
Latour Vertical Tasting; 12/19/2013-12/20/2013 (Switzerland): Nose of leather, cassis, truffles and herbs. This is a very elegant yet incredibly complex Latour. The taste reminded me of sweet cherries, chocolate and plums. The tannins are well integrated but still present giving this wine a long life. Ideally this wine is stored for another 5 years or so.
After I have written down some initial notes on the wine, it was my wife's turn to try this beauty. Soon thereafter the glass was empty and she meant that she really likes this wine. Good taste!
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10/28/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
This is the wine of the vintage and one of the wines of the century. As good as it is now, it's almost scary to think how good 2009 could turn out when it's the same age. I am not sure how it happened, but I was able to taste this wine twice in the same month and a third time, not that long ago. I know how lucky I am. However, the point of this is to state that on each occasion, the wine was easily at triple digits in quality! It is remarkably consistent. To plagiarize myself, if aliens came down to earth and wanted a wine to take back to their planet, this is the wine. With textures of refined sensuality, the wine is opulent, flamboyant and exotic. The perfume screams the moment the cork pops with its tobacco, truffle forest, spice box, cigar wrapper, incense and black cherry liqueur notes. The finish builds and expands for over 60 seconds! This is the wine I'd buy, if I hit the lottery tomorrow.
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10/15/2013 - LWI wrote: flawed
27 Vintages of Latour: Slightly corked upon opening, gets worse.
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10/13/2013 - wpd wrote: 98 Points
Drank on our 30th anniversary at Pacific's Edge in Carmel Highlands. Killer good wine. Drank with a bone in rib eye. Beautiful Bordeaux perfume on the nose. Plenty of everything great. Fruit, acid, tannins all resolved and in balance and amazing fruit. Perfect wine for me. Best I have had in years. Still has some life to age longer, but so so good now.
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9/5/2013 - hongkongtom Likes this wine: 97 Points
Great nose, balanced, smooth - excellent. Drunk with a steak at the Blue Butcher with Howard and John alongside a 1985 Sassacaia.
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8/16/2013 - 83AJ Likes this wine: 98 Points
its like waitng for the cubs to win the world series....there is never enough time to wait for this amazing wine to give you everything in the tank....Over the top perfume, with a full mouth feel and strong finish. This time on the young side, but not a sin to drink up. I'm glad to have pre- intense market upside bottles to enjoy. These will never be sold or passed on to a family member.
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6/29/2013 - sdr Likes this wine: 89 Points
From a pristine bottle, probably purchased on release, with a bottom neck level, I expected fireworks, but got only a whimper. Quiet nose, palate was pleasant enough but without personality, focus or concentration. One dimensional blackberry fruit. So, not corked or spoiled, just lackluster.
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6/17/2013 - johnh1001 wrote: 95 Points
Drank over 2 hours. Some that were with me said this bottle was not correct and they have more experience than I do. That said, I found this to be a lovely, full on Paulliac nose of dark fruit, tobacco, leather and herbs. The palate matched and was smooth and creamy but a touch of dryness on the medium finish--which was probably the fault. Still excellent.
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4/24/2013 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Mad for Magnums (Ai Fiori - New York NY): From magnum. Cassis, black currant, tobacco aromas with subtle spice support. Great balance overall, with a flavor profile matching the aromas. Really completely charming and harmonious vs the last time I had this wine from a bottle that showed almost no evolution or maturity.
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3/26/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
Perfect in every way sums it up nicely. For those that want details, the wine remains deeply colored with a complex fragrance built from spice box, cedar chest, cassis, roasted blackberries, tobacco, flint and forest floor scents. Picture massive amounts of concentrated fruits, ripe, sweet, powerful, round tannins and the texture of velvet and you start to get the idea. Pop a bottle now, or wait 50 years, if you can...
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2/14/2013 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 100 Points
Tasted blind. OMG!!! Absolutely incredible, super-expressive nose of cedar, black currants, blackberries, tobacco, truffle, earth, spices and some smoke. Hits the palate with an incredible silkiness, density and amazing aromatic complexity. It's full-bodied without being heavy, has enough acidity and tannins to balance the opulent fruit. Extremely long finish. This is a super-opulent, flamboyant and flashy Latour but with an incredible balance and depth of flavor. Was picked as WOTN by the tasting group. Probably one of the best wines I have ever had.
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2/13/2013 - Collector1855 wrote: 100 Points
I had this wine three times. Once 1998 in Zurich served by my boss, then 2004 in Taipei served to my boss and then recently served by a friend who brought it to a tasting. Every time it was a 100 Pointer and it also won the tasting amid stiff competition (Ausone 98, Lafite 96, Margaux 03). It is highly complex and structured but still has a warm flamboyant side rarely seen by Latour. However I liked it even more the last two times. I guess also this wine has a time window that is about to close, at least in the 0.75 bottle.
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1/23/2013 - hubas wrote: 99 Points
The aroma is very elegant and still fresh and perfectly balanced. the tannins are a bit grainy ( in a nice way). It has very strong and nice cab fruit and the balance is perfect.
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1/9/2013 - michael47 Likes this wine: 100 Points
An amazingly youthful wine drunk out of double magnum (provenance verified) with a white truffle based meal. Still dark with no suggestion of amber. Nose full of fruit, toast, loam, cedar, pencil lead. Layers of flavour, ripe and rich and totally integrated and harmonious. And it was still a baby - at least out of this format. Best wine had in a long time.
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12/2/2012 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
A Weekend Of Aged First-Growths At Beau-Rivage in Geneva (Beau-Rivage Hotel, Geneva, Switzerland): Much more restrained than the Cheval Blanc with a loverly nose of black earth and leathers. Plums, smoky meats, walnuts and minerals. Powerful and very young yet but with classic structure and concentrated and smooth tannins. A very deep wine that is not showing its charms tonight and may have gone back to sleep for a while. Still, the potential is there. 96+
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11/12/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
If a wine deserved more than 100 Pts, this bottle was a contender for that honor. One of the clear indicators for a sublime wine is, it starts off great and continues improving and keeps on getting better than you could have imagined. This bottle of 1982 Latour was all that and more! Tobacco, earth, truffle, wet gravel, cassis, blackberry, cedar and spice box was elevated to new level. The intense, perfectly balanced, potent, mouth filling waves of fresh, ripe, pure flavors expanded on your palate for over 60 seconds! Silk and power, with everything in perfect balance and harmony. The wine continued to improve in the glass for hours. This is what great Bordeaux is all about! This was one of those bottles that you remember forever.
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11/5/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Alcohol :: 12.5%
The legendary Latour. Almost hit the peak (at least for the bottle). It has all the greatness of a Latour: incredible depth, scale and class. However, the overall profile is not as bright as I would expect from a great Latour, a little bit musky which I thought took away some balance and purity. Well, I ain't complaining though! I will reserve my rating until I have tasted another bottle to compare.
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11/3/2012 - kr522 wrote: 96 Points
continuing my tour of 1982's, I pulled the cork on this one with my wife who wasn't drinking much so I had most of it myself over the course of a long evening - a felicitous turn of events as it started slowly but finished strong.
The fill level was BN, the cork was in good shape and the color was ruby with a touch of amber starting to creep in. The bouquet is not overpowering but complex and on this night it took some time to show everything. There was a floral component, stewed plums, leather, and vanilla that got stronger during the course of the night.
I decanted for an hour which wasn't enough as it suffered initially paired with food. Over time it's viscosity and sweetness of fruit not only became more pronounced but really took off. There's a sweet entry with palate coating layers of soft licorice, figs, prunes, not much acidity - overall a dark sweetness that is very alluring but a little narrow. The concentration suggests to me that this wine will last a long time
Latour is vibrant and delicious, giving in spades the qualities I mention, though for my it taste some of the other top 82s seem to have a an extra section playing in their symphony.
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9/30/2012 - noppakit s. wrote: 95 Points
The cork drop into the bottle so the nose was not as good as it should be but the structure was great and the aftertaste was very long with layers and sensational finished.
If it's perfect in condition, it easily get 100/100 for sure.
Truly great wine !!!
Drink now - 2040...........95-100/100..............
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9/25/2012 - Johann Von Mastiff wrote: flawed
corked, sucks
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6/16/2012 - AllRed wrote: 95 Points
35th Anniversary Party Cellar Tasting; 6/16/2012-6/17/2012 (Rich & Dana's): Deep opaque crimson core. Aromas of red currant, tobacco, cedar, spice box and florals, a touch of graphite too. Young, chewy tannins give way to red fruit, Asian spice and tobacco flavors. Long finish dominated by chewy red fruit and tobacco qualities. Would love to try this again in ten to fifteen years, but then, who wouldn't? 95-96+ pts.
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5/23/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: 93 Points
Nose is succulent, but mildly so, smoky notes. On the palate, this is convoluted but improves with food... never shows the love, astringent.
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3/4/2012 - Eric wrote:
1982 Bordeaux at 30 years courtesy of Mark Taylor (Atlanta, GA): There was some debate as to whether this was corked. I never got the TCA, but there was clearly something a little dirty going on. Graphite on the nose with some smouldering depth. This is a baby that is just far from ready. I guessed this as the Mouton given the lack of readiness. My 5th favorite in the flight.
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2/26/2012 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points
15+ years 95+ RP Bordeaux dinner at Ruth’s Chris, Tysons (Ruth’s Chris, Tysons Corner, VA): Pop and pour, the nose is a quintessential Pauillac, lead pencil, cedar, leather, truffle, cassis and earth. Purchased by RJ in 1986, the color is very youthful. Extremely silky and weightless palate but also shows strong tannin presence. This particular bottle drinks very young and a great example of grand vin claret. Still a long life ahead.
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2/19/2012 - kr522 wrote: 96 Points
there's a wealth of fruit in this wine, a very black fruit oriented effort with a hedonistic streak. A strong and plummy nose but not very complex, perhaps offering a hint of coffee. it is concentrated with sweet tannins, my first impression was to think of the 1990 Beausejour stylistically because of the thickness yet effortless quality of the fruit, but that wine offers more secondary nuances (a 100 point wine). The finish is long and sweet, with dark fruits predominating and a hint of menthol.
very enjoyable and impressive concentration for a 30 year old bottle...it could well improve from here. but it never did what the very best Bordeaux do...there was little intellectual appeal and it never really changed over several hours. probably not worth the price tag at 2-large. the 82 Mouton is better.
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2/11/2012 - alamoave wrote: 100 Points
Can't remember tasting a better wine than this one. Absolutely perfect. Freshness and fullness of flavors and balance all astonishing.
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1/24/2012 - aegerter Likes this wine: 100 Points
Must be the best wine in the world to drink right now!
Perfection in every regard.
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1/7/2012 - lumpyelbow wrote: 97 Points
Yet to be Named Wine Club Meeting #13 Great Wines From Around the World (Jim and David's): Wine Club #13: Barnyard with truffle. A good dose of red fruit and hints of blueberry. Nose 20/20. Good power in the mouth but didn't deliver to the level of the nose, still a phenomenal experience 18-18.5/20. Overall: 19+/20
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12/12/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
1982 Bordeaux First Growth (and Comparable) Dinner (Carlos - Highwood, IL): Served single blind with all 1982 First Growths. Decanted approximately three hours before poured. Way too young - all black fruit with some intense spice, but this just didn't show any evolution yet. Clearly great raw materials, but this bottle seemed to have come out of a sealed time capsule.
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11/22/2011 - THA wrote: 99 Points
CdBaH 81st (RDG): What an extraordinary wine! Fully mature, but no where near the sunset of its life. Remarkably deep color for its age; no signs of fading. Seamless from the nose, to the palate, to the finish. Elegant, soft, powerful, deep, and focused all at once, and yet almost weightless across the palate. Still full of fruit. Pulled out of an unbroken OWC by the original purchaser. Kept in ideal cellar conditions since the original purchase.
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11/1/2011 - parkavenue wrote: 100 Points
Dark red, with an amber rim. Liqueur-like aromas of plum, roasted meat, mocha, tobacco, truffle and burnished oak. Fat, lush and smooth, with explosive fruit and powerful underlying backbone. Massive but not at all heavy. Wonderfully tactile wine, finishing with big, chewy-but-ripe tannins and great persistence. Drink during your lifetime.
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9/9/2011 - Zweder wrote: 98 Points
Vertical of 15 vintages Latour followed by a 3* Michelin dinner and 11 magnums. (@ the Librije in Zwolle, Netherlands.): A dream came true. This wine was really high on my wish list to drink once. Dark carmine red with a slightly orange rim. Deep and subtle bouquet with cedar, tobacco, graphite, cassis and licorice. Slightly sweet start with some caramel, beautiful continuation of the bouquet. Also some earthy impressions. Beautiful and creamy soft tannin which still have enough power for many years. Beautiful acidity as well. Overall this is a superb and complex wine, a little more evolved than expected.
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9/9/2011 - WildeMeeuw wrote: 94 Points
Verticaal Latour (De Librije, Zwolle): Kleur: Robijnrood met oranje-bruine rand Aroma / bouquet: Krachtige aanzet, bijna wat 'groenig', opvallend kruidig, laurier en bouillon, donker fruit, wat soja / oriëntaals, vooral wat cassis, cederhout Smaak / Afdronk: Verleidelijke inzet, vervolgens opvallend krachtig, friszuur, behoorlijk aanwezige tannines met een behoorlijke bite, een 'bek vol' met een enorme lengte Algemeen / potentieel: Jeugdig glas, veel power en potentieel 50 + Kleur: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 12 + Smaak / Afdronk: 18 + Algemeen / potentieel: 9 = 94/100
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7/10/2011 - jsherdc wrote:
Waves of black fruit, cherries, mint, and cedar cascading through my senses. And then I woke up from dream....
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5/28/2011 - dthompson wrote: 98 Points
Marvellous. Smoke, blackberriesand a long finish
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12/10/2010 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
With its intense aromatics and incredible concentration, it said hello and kept on talking. Deep, powerful and complex. This has a wonderful purity of fruit and the finish seems lasts over a minute.
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12/1/2010 - burgcamel wrote: 98 Points
Incredible wine but still a little tight. I will try to wait a couple of years before I open my next bottle.
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11/6/2010 - mwanasheria wrote: 100 Points
1982 Bordeaux tasting; 11/5/2010-11/6/2010 (Bremen, Germany): Clearly a three digit score. Truffles, blackberry, smoke, raisins. Endless finish and lots of life left.
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9/23/2010 - Siggy wrote: 100 Points
1982 Bordeaux w/ Bob Macdonald (Minneapolis): Third time tasted. The perfect, Zen-like confluence of power and elegance. An utterly complete and seamless wine. Its dynamism is the equal of the '82 Petrus, tasted side-by-side (see TN), but the palate here is more vigorous and persistent, and the finish blasts off instead of attenuates. The fruit and spices are intense, hauntingly complex, harmonious, and beautiful. Still youthful and gorgeously structured, this easily has 50 or more years of life ahead.
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2/17/2010 - St Paul wrote: 100 Points
Winner of a 82 tasting with all 1er Cru wines present. November 2009. This wine was amazing.
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2/14/2010 - dream wrote: 97 Points
Perfect ruby color with slightly-fading edges. Gorgeous nose of sweet tobacco, earth and walnuts. I can really taste the vineyard in this wine with the dark black fruits with notes of slate, black minerals and roasted walnuts. Super-sleek texture with gobs of complex earhty flavors. Finishes sooo smooth and finely concentrated but this wine remains quite young and fresh and still 5 years or so away from peaking. Still, the taste of the terroir here is mind-boggling. 97+
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11/19/2009 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 98 Points
The Fine Wine Experience Classic Claret II (Restaurant The Square **, London): Rich, wonderful creamy tannins, blackberry, a rather feminine rendition of Latour, sexy and seamless, stylish, classic, delicious, tremendous length.
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8/24/2009 - Margauxguy wrote: 99 Points
on of the most amazing wines I have had. Period
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8/21/2009 - nvandyk wrote: 100 Points
Amazing. Deep ruby, no hint of aging. Beautiful nose, full of fruit, cedar and leather. Perfect balance. Finish goes on, and on, and on. Hard to imagine this is 25+ years old -- probably a 100 year wine. In a word: perfect wine.
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8/7/2009 - Books for Cooks wrote: 96 Points
Nouveau Tasting Group (Andrew M's)(07/08/2009) (Andrew M's): Nouveau Tasting Group @ Andrew M's: Wine 7
Note: Opened 7 days early, racked, recorked under gas
Colour: a dark intense purple
Nose: perfumed, floral & vanilla, cigarbox, cedar, tobacco; seductive & gorgeous
Palate: long, intense full palate of sheer joy with a super long elegant fine tannin finish with notes of green savouriness & white pepper. Beautifully structured
(19.175)
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6/23/2009 - sdr wrote: 96 Points
Fabulous Latour but not what I expected. Mature mahogany color at the rim. Surprisingly soft fragrance with overtones of cinnamon and brown sugar. Not at all a heavyweight. Clearly fully mature and deep into the secondary phase where the Pauillac cedar and cassis are supporting players. Velvety texture, gentle finish, etherial. Compelling wine.
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6/1/2009 - georgeohr wrote: 98 Points
Another excellent bottle. Decanted 2 1/ hours. deep, rich color. Wonderful bouquet. Cedar, cigar box, all the pauillac food groups. Years of life ahead.
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5/29/2009 - Miceri wrote: flawed
Corked nose; flat taste
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5/9/2009 - rstark wrote: 98 Points
MOPA 100 Point Wine Tasting (Rancho Santa Fe, CA): Killer nose. This wine is singing right now! Unctuous blend of leather, truffles, with the most delicious dried plum fruit ever. Amazingly long finish. #2 wine of the event.
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4/18/2009 - JJL wrote: 96 Points
This was a potential 98+ wine, but I am afraid I played this one wrong. There was a big nose when decanting. From the glass, there was some bret and oak, but mostly cedar and mushroom. This bottle was ready to play right out of the bottle. As to be expected with an '82, the tannins were bigger than the acidity, even after 27 years. There was lots of fruit on the palate on the first sip, especially raspberry and blackberry. After 30 minutes, there was mostly strawberry and at one hour there was sweet cherry nectar -mmmmm. That's when things started to go downhill. I poured the wine back into the bottle and placed it behind my car seat for the for the 30-minute trip to the restaurant. Unfortunately, the engine is behind the seat and the wine got a little warm by the time we arrived at the restaurant. My next mistake was to order oysters to start and the brine of the oysters did nothing good for my palate. My next mistake was to order tuna tartar, which was spicier than I expected. By the time my taste buds came back around, the wine was starting to turn towards soy flavors. Next time I will drink this wine at home with no food.
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4/2/2009 - dbg wrote: 98 Points
Mouton Madness: SDR's BWE Thursday Night Dinner (Equinox Restaurant, Washington DC): Dark red to rim. Most intense nose of the flight, with dark ripe fruits, cassis, and cherry jumping from the glass mixed in with some smoky cedary notes and with some time in the glass some coffee notes as well to produce a fascinatingly complex nose. Full bodied, with rich ripe layered fruit and complex undernotes of leather, earth, and hints of tar. Nice long finish with lingering complexity. Really forward and giving for a young Latour, it hasn't yet developed the sweet complexity of truly aged Bordeaux, but it is as interesting on the palate as it is on the nose. I really love this stuff - it was challenged but never seriously threatened by the elegance of the '82 Lafite or the complexity of the '82 Mouton. My WOTN.
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3/2/2009 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points
Olives, black cherries, herbs, coffee, cassis, minerals and tobacco take over your senses. Still young and concentrated, this powerful, concentrated wine is not close to full maturity. It could outlast most people who own the wine today.
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1/31/2009 - JJL wrote: 98 Points
Decanted for 4 hours, brought to Neil's B-Day dinner. The '82 Latour was great as usual. This has been the most consistent wine that I have had. Mushroom, eucalyptus and currants on the nose. Dark fruits and lots of them, on the palate, which turns to mint and then a little espresso on the long finish.
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1/25/2009 - BradE wrote:
Sadly, corked.
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1/23/2009 - Siggy wrote: flawed
Tasting Group Dinner - '75, '83 and '85 Bordeaux (Brad's House, Minneapolis): Corked.
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11/29/2008 - Burgundy Al wrote: 97 Points
A few highlights from a celebration (Northbrook, IL): Really great showing, best I've ever had for this generally great wine. Great color, nose showed great spice, currant and graphite. Real classic. Flavors of big black fruit with espresso and cocoa on long. long finish. Most people's WOTN, for me just behind the Krug 90 Mesnil.
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11/29/2008 - MatthewF wrote: 97 Points
Ruby color with a classic Latour nose of currant, graphite, and spice box. Fantastic palate with some sweet fruit still showing and bits of chocolate. Tannins have melted away; beautiful wine.
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11/29/2008 - winefool wrote: 97 Points
Celebration Dinner (Chicago): Full ruby red color. Full big nose of black currant and pencil lead with lavendar notes. Mmmn, full black coffee chocolate black fruit on the palate with hints of sweetness remaining. Lovely! WOTN for me (and the group) in a stunning lineup. This was a perfect example, better than the several times I've had it before. 97-98 pts.
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9/2/2008 - PurpleHaze wrote: 97 Points
Dark ruby. As another taster proclaimed on first sniff of this wine, "Blackberries!" This wine was redolent of crushed blackberries, sweet wood, earth and spices. Easily the most accessable of the 1982s served this evening, the wine continued to evolve and develop over 6+ hours. Tannins still evident, but balanced and very fine. Finish of over 60 seconds. Stunning.
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7/19/2008 - BradE wrote:
Bordeaux in Verbier: Followed the 89 with the 82. The nose sang out - and really screamed look at me. On the palate, a very good to great wine. Mmmm.
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6/15/2008 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
“Oh My God!” This is the type of Bordeaux that brings tears to wine lovers eyes! This was so good, words alone do not do it justice. This amazing wine exploded with a myriad of scents including pepper, walnuts, spice box, cassis, cinnamon, licorice, coffee, truffles and more! And that was the beginning! The palate presence was out of this world! This is so opulent, exotic and rich, it has to be tasted to be believed. The perfect, seamless finish was breath taking filling every nook and cranny in your mouth and waking up all your taste buds and senses. If aliens came to earth and demanded a great wine, they would take 82 Latour!
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2/14/2008 - Serge Birbrair wrote:
Very good indeed. Not 100 points good, not "you must try it before you die" good, but good nevertheless. Thick, light smoke, coffee, concentrated. Sue enjoyed it more than I did.
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1/9/2008 - Philippe_C wrote: 100 Points
Explosive nose of ripe strawberriesand cassis, leather, smoke, lead pencil and mokka... in the mounth very lactic, ripe strawberries, meaty, wild feasant with a refreshing acidity and a very very long aftertaste... simply the perfect wine!!
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1/5/2008 - mimik wrote: 100 Points
Collingwood Tasting with Dokta, Futronic, Basecadet,Mimik and friends; 1/4/2008-1/5/2008: Nose of pure cassis, cedar and toasty oak. The palate is permeated with fresh cassis in a seemless texture and body. The nose is so seductive, so ethereal and so delicate. Long cassis and cedar finish. Out of this world.The wine makes circles around my taste buds.
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1/5/2008 - futronic wrote: 100 Points
Wino Guys Weekend (WGW) #1; 1/4/2008-1/5/2008: Medium-ruby colour. Huge nose of cedar, cigar box, red licorice, herbs, currant, sandalwood, mineral, black licorice, dried roses, talc. Medium-bodied, silky, seamless wine with currant, leather, cedar, cigar box, and pencil lead. Long, long finish, 60+s, with mushroom, cigar box, and minerals. Absolutely gorgeous! I really don't know what else you could look for in a wine, or how to improve this. As such - 100 points. Only the second time I've dished out that score.
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5/21/2007 - trankin wrote: 97 Points
82 Bordeaux Tasting (Chanterelle): Nose of pencil shavings and dark red fruit. Gorgeous wine. Lush fruit with serious structure. Loads of dark red fruit. Wonderful wine. WOTF, WOTN.
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4/29/2007 - linesider wrote: 98 Points
Dinner at Pam and Geoff's 4.07. Still a young wine.
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4/24/2007 - winefool wrote: 95 Points
91st Dinner of the George Rezek Society (Kendall College): Full deep ruby red color. Full nose of briar black fruit with just a hint of green pepper (surprised...). Great round red/black fruit with cedar, pencil lead, and a hint of sweetness. Clear breed here and probably still too young. While this was a wonderful wine and clearly WOTN among the 82s, I wanted to be more blown away by it.
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4/21/2007 - sdr wrote: 98 Points
Staggeringly good and still young, but starting to display some of what makes this one of the top three wines of the vintage for me (along with Lafleur and Petrus). Completely inpenetrable black color. The star of the show for me of the "Latour by Four" tasting at Cafe Boulud with Greg, Brian, Bob and Arlette. Huge waves of blackberry jam and black currents on the nose, then the palate is treated to the same massive onslaught of rich, ripe fruit and thoroughly integrated new oak. What it doesn't yet have is complexity, but that will surely come over the next few decades.
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2/23/2007 - BradE wrote:
Absolutely perfect. 99 points.
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2/18/2007 - Eric wrote: 99 Points
1982 Bordeaux with Leve at Spago (Los Angeles, CA): What else could this be but Latour. A massive wine that was loaded with graphite and black fruit. Incredibly direct and focused right now, this is a stunningly pure wine. Nothing exotic here. Just some of the purest Cabernet ever created in the world. Still, after the Pichon Lalande, it was clear which I preferred…
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1/10/2007 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
Wine doesn’t get better than this! Cassis, tobacco, coffee and smoke aromatics jumped from the glass. Very tannic. Extraordinarily concentrated. You could spend all night counting the layers of fruit in this wine. Obviously, very complex. This is a huge wine. Every single taste receptor is awakened by this wine. Layers of ripe, decadent fruit cascade over your palate. My notes say, simply amazing! If wines could be awarded over 100 Pts, this could be it. When this sleeping giant becomes fully awake sometime in the next decade, it might be the wine of the vintage.
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11/19/2006 - BradE wrote: flawed
Corked. Too bad, as it was a perfect bottle otherwise. Very drinkable, but the cork was evident and prevented enjoying this.
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10/30/2006 - MRichman wrote:
Chateau Latour vertical at Danube (Danube restaurant in NYC): Mature, yet young. Complete & balanced. Punchy & dense. Lovely.
A+
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8/26/2006 - sdr wrote: 98 Points
I wouldn't argue with someone who rated this 100 points. (This bottle was purchased from John Hart Fine Wine several years ago from a European source and in mint condition.) It's a fabulous display of "young" but nearly mature Bordeaux, no longer a baby but still a toddler. Deep, deep ruby in the center with the barest hint of orange at the rim. A 10 hour decant probably helped to coax out the incipient lovely bouquet of black cherry, blueberry, licorice and blackberry. There's no cedar, tobacco or smoke such as an older wine might show. Huge in the mouth, but perfectly spherical. Luscious in Latour terms with the berries covered in a cocoon of bitter dark chocolate. Fabulous long fruity finish. Sure, it will continue to evolve and display more secondary flavors, but it's irresistible now. Incontrovertibly great wine.
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7/28/2006 - BradE wrote:
Last up, the 1982. This is wine that can be stunning, and as described by Jeff Leve recently - "if aliens landed on earth requesting wine, this is what they'd want." And I've had five or six bottles in the last year that qualify for that description. Sadly for us, tonight's bottle was subpar, and was good, but not great. Some type of storage damage along the way no doubt. But we really couldn't complain, as the 52 and 59 were perfect, so we count our blessings!
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4/30/2006 - MC wrote:
From memory with dinner last night. Decanted for an hour. Amazing hour dark this wine is for its age. Great deep color. Wonderful Bordeaux nose, reserved for at least another hour (freshly empty glasses had the best nose of all before refilling) - lots of rich fruit with some vanilla and slight toast to back it up. Still a firm tannic finish. Great to drink now but it has not peaked yet - maybe 5 more years? A
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1/28/2006 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
A perfume of coffee, licorice, herbs, cedar, chocolate and cassis is easy to find. Dense, palate filling with sweet, ripe tannin to resolve. Deep, multiple layers of opulent, silky, ripe, fruit cascade and glide across your palate. Amazingly soft, lush and open. But as sublime as it is now, don’t let that fool you. It’s holding it’s best charms in reserve.
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1/21/2006 - sdr wrote: flawed
I thought this would be the wine of the evening at the Four Seasons, but all my guests immediately detected it was corked. Decanted for 12 hours. I though it was just mute, but I can see why others said that it was the evil TCA at work.
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1/20/2006 - jrufusj wrote:
61/82 Bordeaux Dinner (Luxor in Marunouchi): Deep and young colored. The nose is incredibly tight and needs vigorous aeration, to move beyond the slightly aromatic cigarbox and pencil stage, but it then manages to show more cedar, super-ripe cassis, peat and compost, and tobacco. Similarly young on the palate, it is very tannic in the front of the mouth but shows a nice, dense, full fruit in the mid-palate and an amazingly concentrated finish. As it opens up some, a rich sweetness begins to mask the substantial tannin up front and the mid-palate starts to show licorice and candied cranberry while a hint of nutty, bacony cheese quiche shows up on the finish. The fruit sweetness is balanced by a nice degree of acid, especially for the vintage. Still a baby, this displays a terrific balance of fruit, tannin, and acid that promises so much more to come. This still has a lot more hill to climb but is a pleasure to drink now.
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1/16/2006 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 99 Points
This was my first Latour. and it was amazing. The instant the glass was put down all attention was focused on the Latour. You could smell the wine without sticking your nose to the glass. The color was dark ruby (the Las Cases and the Latour had identical color, and the Lafite was only slight more red). The nose and the taste exuded power and balance. I got cigar box and lead pencil on the nose with added powerful fruit on the palate. The finish lasted forever. What an experience.
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1/16/2006 - Ben Andersen wrote:
Great Wines at Brad's House (Minneapolis): Same bottle as Siggy's TN... Absolutely fantastic. Deep, dark fruit, with broad, seemless texture, intriguing elements of earth and tobacco, and a finish that lasts forever. A wine of perfect proportions and balance - despite it's impressive underlying structure. Still young, I think we all agreed this wine will live for a very, very long time under good storage conditions. Thanks, Brad!
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1/16/2006 - Siggy wrote: 99 Points
Follow Up Dinner of (Mostly) Bordeaux (Brad's House, Minneapolis): Un-freaking-believable! A bottle that Brad purchased ex-Chateau, this wine was the embodiment of Pauillac elegance and power. Youthful black/red color with barely any bricking. The nose explodes with cassis, smoke, and minerals. Supple, elegant mouthfeel; one of the longest (60+ second) finishes I've ever experienced. As amazing as this was, I think it is at least 10 years away from its peak. A tour de force of a wine.
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9/17/2005 - Burgundy Al wrote: 96 Points
HDH Pre-Auction Tasting (Chicago Athletic Club): Wine tasting. Black fruit just starting to show some secondary development. Really good tobacco and spice aromas. Palate really shows the same impressive fruit from the nose. Very elegant, balanced and long finish. Really impressive on every level.
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9/17/2005 - winefool wrote: 95 Points
HDH Pre-auction tasting (Chicago Athletic Club): Coffee red color. Towering aroma of paulliac fruit and graphite. Really rich lovely round black fruit. Drinking perfectly.
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2/11/2005 - Eric wrote: 95 Points
Pre-Parker warmup dinner at Citronelle (Washington DC): The shows huge notes of lead pencil on the nose with a black, muscular and terrific palate.
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10/25/2003 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 94 Points
1982 Latour
10/25/03 at K&L's Parker Tasting of Latour in SF. Dark, but evolved. Very special nose, lots of complexity. Palate also great. Very fine. 5-14-17-8-94/100
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10/15/2003 - hcampana wrote: 100 Points
Chateau Latour vertical (K&L Wines; moderated by Robert Parker) (San Francisco, CA): 1982 Chateau Latour
The clear wine of the night among very stiff competition. This completely lived up to the hype. Writing notes was very difficult. This is still a fruit bomb with blackberry, cassis, pain grille, spices, etc. As good as the nose was though, the palate is what did it for me. Full bodied but velvety, low acidity, ripe tannins, incredible mid palate, explosive fruit and the greatest, longest finish. The best wine I have ever tasted. 100 points.
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7/12/2003 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 99 Points
Tasted single-blind at 1982 horizontal Bordeaux dinner at El Bizcocho. Bottle provided by Diogo Belo. Deep (nearly opaque) ruby robe with garnet/amber rim. Clean nose, showing an intense bouquet of kirsch, ripe black fruit, chocolate, anise, and lead pencil. Full-bodied on the palate, with low acidity and a syrupy mouth texture (despite huge, slightly dry tannins). Similar ripe and complex flavors as for the nose. Long, slightly astringent finish. Beautiful now, but will clearly benefit from further time in the bottle. An excellent accompaniment to the roasted rack of lamb (with confit garlic potato fondant and baby turnips in natural lamb truffle jus).
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10/16/2002 - mnh wrote:
at aspen: deep ruby with sl brick edge. elegant fruit and floral nose. Black fruits with well integrated but hard tannins. Accesible finally but needs more time. Classic great Latour.
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4/28/2002 - MikeATL Likes this wine:
1982 Bordeaux retrospective (Capital Grille, Buckhead): One of my all-time favorite Bordeaux, massive, but elegant, explosive, but complex, in short, a paradox wrapped in an enigma smothered in secret sauce. It has never really closed down, but continues to awe me with its quality.
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4/1/2002 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Hugh’s bottle, purchased on release. At first, closed and tannic. Somewhat surprisingly, it evolved in the glass and became well behaved and civilized. Classic Latour now at age twenty. Should hold well. Outstanding but I still wonder if it will become spectacular.
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11/1/2001 - sdr Likes this wine: 95 Points
The darkest and most massive of the six ‘82 First Growths sampled at Ocean Grand. Far from maturity based on this bottle, unlike in the past. Not monolithic or tiring at all. Famous Latour breed in spades. Needs 5-8 years. Surely a great wine in the making.
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11/1/2001 - mnh wrote:
Deep ruby with brick edge. Woodsy, cedar nose. Mature black fruit with soft tannins.Great now but will keep going
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9/1/1999 - sdr Likes this wine: 95 Points
One of the consensus stars of the Latour vertical of the Great Wine Seminar. Very good color, no orange yet. Faint complex nose. Velvety texture, tender tannins. Deceptively ready. Power without weight. Intense, not heavy. Excellent acidity. Long and wonderful. So different from old Latour, how will it age?
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4/1/1997 - sdr Likes this wine: 98 Points
Medium ruby, orange rim. Regal. Brilliant fruit. Long and luscious. Delicious now with much more to follow. Modern style. Recognizably Latour anyway. Now at least $550. I should have bought more on release at $55 but the current price will look cheap in another 10 years.
Late addition in 2018: it’s $2600
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5/11/1996 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 91 Points
Tasted at unblinded vertical Latour tasting at the Belgian Lion. The light in the room was dim, so the color was difficult to assess. The best that can be said is that the color is "deep." Closed nose, with predominant currants. Big, tannic, slightly hot wine with currants on palate. Long, tannic finish. Probably "dumb" at this point. Some at the tasting felt that the wine is actually in decline, although I disagree. Would not drink before 2000-2005.
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5/1/1995 - sdr Likes this wine: 88 Points
Stylish Latour nose. Beautiful balance. Medium weight. Rounded ‘82 vintage “tender tannins.” Needs time of course, but doesn’t seem like it has the stuffing to become a great classic Latour.
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11/18/1990 - buckeye76 wrote: 94 Points
VERY DEEP RICH AROMAS, PLUM, BLACKCURRENT, TAR, LEATHER, AND A TOUCH OF MINT. STILL TANNIC, THOUGH APPROACHABLE. RICH BLACKBERRY FLAVORS, COMPLEX, LONG FINISH.
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5/19/1987 - sdr Likes this wine: 92 Points
Slightly darker than the ‘83. More advanced nose. Some beautiful fruit is peeking out but extremely tannic. Should be superb eventually.
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