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Pauillac

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Latour is an utterly fascinating wine to taste nowadays, as there is little doubt that it is undergoing a profound change - almost certainly due to biodynamics. The 2017 is less monumental and yet no less impactful than previous vintages, and is very much in the frame of recent Latours. They are bravely following where they believe it should be, rather than where the market expects it to be. It opens with hugely vibrant spice followed by powerful, richly concentrated cassis and autumnal fruits that steal up on you. This beautiful wine has great persistency and precision, with real bearing and good Pauillac structure. Those tannins come rushing in until, by the end, you feel their insisting power. The levels of precision are astonishing - the team blind-tasted the berries for three weeks before harvest to track maturity and decide picking dates. There are touches of 100-year-old Petit Verdot in here. 30.3% of the estate's production went into the grand vin. 6.4% press wine. 66 IPT.

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Château Latour, Pauillac, 1er Cru Classé, Bordeaux, France, 2017

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Latour is an utterly fascinating wine to taste nowadays, as there is little doubt that it is undergoing a profound change - almo

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Château Latour

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Jane Anson

Château Latour, Pauillac, 1er Cru Classé, Bordeaux, 2017

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Château Latour, Pauillac, 1er Cru Classé, Bordeaux, 2017

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