1981 Château Latour Grand Vin

Community Tasting Notes (66) Avg Score: 91.0 points

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  5/19/2024 - Oli_Vilmo Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Still a lot of structure and power

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  8/19/2023 - Mark Burnett Likes this wine:

  Deeply concentrated garnet in the glass, with only a small bit of brickish rim variation. Brilliant color for a 42 year old wine.
  
  Intense aromas which highlight secondary notes that keep evolving in the glass with every sip. Most prominent is fresh bay leaf. It’s incredibly intense and enfolds other notes, like mint and eucalyptus. Of the 5 first growths of the 1981 vintage, this was the most powerful and the most herbal.
  
  Flavors kindly follow the nose, with red plum and tart cherry underneath the bay leaf and botanicals.
  
  Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium plus acidity, along with a front-of-mouth, medium plus tannic structure that enfolds the mouth from the sides of the gums up and over to the front. Powerful and intense for 42 years.

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  8/19/2023 - Trickyone Likes this wine:

  Les Premiers Crus (aka Schrödinger's Tasting) (The Ridge): More details later.

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  7/8/2023 - dbkitc wrote: 90 Points

  This is a very good, not great wine. That said, it is absolutely delicious. Mature ruby / brick color. The nose leads with classic cassis, tobacco and cedar notes. A touch soapy. Could bury my nose in this all afternoon. Textbook. The palate is mature and soft for Latour. Again classic fruit and cigar but it’s almost “Latour Lite” as it is missing the layers and depth of this wine in the great years. Love drinking it but understand it’s limitations. (90)

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  2/12/2022 - Mulvk Likes this wine:

  Lead pencil, cigar box, leather. Was beautiful

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