1928 Château Latour Grand Vin

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 94.1 points

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  7/4/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  Sneaking up on its 100th birthday, just the chance to see the bottle, let alone taste it was more than cool. Fortunately, this bottle was well-treated during its life. Leather, tobacco, soy, Cuban cigars, spice, smoke, and bright red currants came through in the nose and on the palate. The concentrated wine still offered vigor, vibrancy, and spice in its earthy, red, sweet, and tart character, finishing with a chalky endnote. If you are lucky enough to own a bottle, you might as well wait until 2028 and pop it on its 100th Bday, as it is going to easily last that long. Drink from 2023-2028.

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  1/7/2023 - sdr Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Latour, Latour, Latour (WineWatch, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): Even to survive at this age is quite an accomplishment. This bottle not only survived but thrived. Of course you don’t expect juicy fruit from a near centenarian but this example did have a whisper of it. Phenomenal complexity that no mere 30 year old youngster ever shows. Remarkably thick texture. Appreciated on its own terms there is a lot of pleasure to be had even if it is more for the intellect than the palate. Fascinating.

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  10/2/2021 - fclarity wrote: 95 Points

  From a nice looking bottle with a MTHS fill (see photo), this wine had a red center and tawny/clear rims. The medium intensity nose was dusty and musty at first. After an hour or so it showed sauteed black cherries, plums, raisins, cigar box, minerals and some brown sugar.
  
  In the mouth, this wine was pretty refined and quiet at first. After the first hour, it was lean and refined with notable rounded tannin, firm acidity, and fantastic length. It hit another gear and was gorgeously balanced after 4 hours of air.
  
  While obviously ready to drink, this was a classic example of the firm '28 vintage.

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  12/7/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Remarkably intact for a wine of this age. One of the better bottles of '28 Latour I have had. Wonderful savory and sweet spices here, warm wood notes, old leather. Significant dry fruit notes. Smooth palate. Great bottle.

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  12/10/2018 - englishman's claret wrote: 97 Points

  Latour in its full glory - for a few moments. Followed very carefully from a mid-shoulder bottle, this took about 15-20 minutes to really get going and stayed on that plateau for about 25 minutes more before dissipating. At its peak, this was so classically Latour: chestnut, beef blood, toffee, red spices, leather, and cedar on a core of cassis. Just superb - really invigorating stuff. 97-98

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