This lot was part of our auction «September auction: Bordeaux at is best!» on 26.09.2021.
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Château Latour, Les Forts de Latour, 1995
1 x 0.750L
Bordeaux
faded
perfect
into neck
none
95 / 100 Robert Parker Latour's second wine, Forts de Latour, is now one of the two or three finest second wines of Bordeaux (Bahans-Haut-Brion and the Clos du Marquis of Leoville Las-Cases are two other personal favorites). The terrific, dark ruby/purple-colored 1995 possesses a sweet, jammy black fruit-scented nose intertwined with smoky minerals, earth, and spicy oak. The wine is surprisingly thick and rich in the mouth, with its glycerin and concentration of fruit largely concealing the moderate tannin. This excellent, sweet wine is less powerful, but more accessible than the 1996. Anticipated maturity: 2001-2015. Wine Advocate #115 Feb 1998
90 / 100 Wine Spectator Intense aromas of crushed blackberries and cassis. Full-bodied, with ripe fruit and velvety tannins. Long. Slightly one-dimensional. Needs to develop.--'95/'96 Bordeaux retrospective. Best after 2008 http://www.winespectator.com/wine/detail/source/search/not..
17.5 / 20 Jancis Robinson Dark crimson with a little age at the rim. Beefy, bloody notes on the nose. Quite open. Already quite soft and round on the front palate with fine tannins only on the very end. You could drink this now with food but there is still lots of life in it. More substantial than the 1996 Forts. Vigorous and powerful. http://www.jancisrobinson.com/tastings/search?keywords=for..
