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1978 Chateau Latour (750ml)

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Your Price: $325.00
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Vintage: 1978
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Chateau Latour
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Appellation: Pauillac
Producer: Chateau Latour
Varietal: Red Bordeaux Blend
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Sub-Region: Medoc

Tasting note: Medium garnet-colored with moderate amber at the edge, the 1978 Latour offers a spicy, saddle leather, tobacco, dried herb, earthy nose with sweet fruit trying to poke through. Interestingly, new oak also makes an appearance in the flavors. Medium-bodied, elegant, and fragrant, but possibly beginning to dry out, this fully mature wine requires consumption over the next decade. (90pts. Robert Parker)

Tasted: Jun. 2000
Score: 90
Drink: N/A

Tasting note: Better than I anticipated. A sleek and racy wine.Ruby-amber color. Aromas of cedar, cigar box,tobacco, mint and mushrooms, with hints of redfruits, follow though to a medium body with finetannins and a long, silky finish. Excellent now,but a little more bottle age would only improve it. (92pts. JS, Wine Spectator)

Tasted: Aug. 31, 2000
Score: 92
Drink: After 2005