1950 Louis Latour Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 88 points

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  9/14/2014 - kevin h wrote: 88 Points

  Slow oxygenated for 8 hours though positive smell on opening. Bronze colour, some fruit but sherried in an old fashioned way. Not oxidised but one dimensional. Quite drinkable but long past its best.

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  6/6/2010 - kevin h wrote:

  Recent auction purchase. Believed 1950 (date is missing and not on cork). Low shoulder level. I gave this a slow oxygenation over 6 hours before tasting it. Deep gold colour, some oxidation and rather mushroomy and musty on both nose and in the flavour. At that point not really drinkable so I left it and opened something else. Two hour later and it tasted a little fresher, the acidity more prominent now which brought on the flavour somehat. Drinkable now, old white burgundy flavours, less noticeably oxidised, last vestiges of some fruit. However the mushroom/musty flavours returned after a couple of minutes in the glass. So after an 8 hour slow oxygenation it was drinkable, just, providing it was drunk straight after pouring a small amount. Slow oxygenation certainly works to improve a wine but it doesn't bring about miracles.

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