Wine Chateau Latour, Pauillac AOC 1-er Grand Cru Classe, 2005
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Tasting Notes
Rich ruby color with a hint of raspberry.
Excellent Château Latour 2005 shows an unusually high tannin combined with lively acidity and the exclusive focus of taste. Powerful and full-bodied, it reveals notes of black currants, roasted nuts and cedar, who were later joined by a delightful tones of cinnamon and leather, as well as fresh shades of minerals.
Complex aroma reveals notes of gravel, graphite, black cherries, chёrnosmorodinovogo liqueur, new leather and dried mushrooms, which adds a touch of floral notes.
Château Latour perfectly complements the exquisite dishes of red meat and poultry, such as fricassee of veal schnitzel of turkey with apples, foie gras, truffles, carpaccio with figs, duck Peking stuffed partridge. As appetizers ideal Parma ham and blue cheese.
Interesting Facts
The creation of a luxurious Chateau Latour 2005 went only 44% of the crop. Powerful and full-bodied, it has an unusually high level of tannins that give the wine slowly and the ability to develop harmoniously for fifty years or more. Perhaps a major role in this was played unconventionally high content of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend, whose share was 87%. According to Robert Parker and Stephen Tanzer, Château Latour 2005 is one of the greatest young wines of Bordeaux in the last decade. At the moment, it is quite closed, but now shows the extraordinary purity of colors and fantastically long, rich and multi-layered finish, which does not want to leave. This young Château Latour reaches maturity only between 2020-2060 years, giving its owner a real pleasure!
Château Latour is located on the border of the two communes - Saint-Julien and Pauillac, to the north of the vineyard Léoville Las Kaz. It can be seen from afar thanks to the tower of St. Lambertini (Saint-Lambertin), left over from the XIV century, when during the Hundred Years War, it served as a reliable protection against the British. First tower Saint-Lambertin appeared on the label placed at the end of the XVIII century and continues to adorn the magnificent Château Latour wine today, and one of the signs by which to determine the authenticity of the wine is a picture of a small lion guarding the tower.
According to the official classification of Bordeaux 1855 Château Latour belongs to the highest category of Premier Grand Cru Classe, and the estate itself is part of today's top five producers of Bordeaux along with Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Château Haut-Brion.
History of Château Latour as a serious winery begins in 1670, when it becomes the personal secretary of Louis XIV - Monsignor de Chavannes. It was during his 1680 here have planted vineyards, and already in 1707 Latour wine offered tempted society of gentlemen in «London Gazette», and its price was equal to the price of a first-class wines such as Château Lafite and Château Pontak (O-Brion) .
One of the main factors of fine quality wines Château Latour is a unique terroir. Extensive water masses on both sides of Pauillac - Atlantic Ocean and the river Gironde - are regulators of heat and provide mild microclimate, so necessary for optimal ripening of grapes, and clay soils, rich in iron, provide good body wine, complex bouquet and excellent tannic basis. The famous central part of the vineyard, called "l'Enclos" (Uncle), planted with old vines, from which the crop and produced the first wine farm Grand Vin de Chateau Latour.
Like all the "great wines" Bordeaux, Chateau Latour distinguishes rich bouquet, truly deep, multi-taste, drop-down set of tones and semitones, and amazing ability to "keep time". It can rightly be regarded as long-lived, because the potential for the development of this superb wine is from 30 to 60 years!