Tasting Notes
JancisRobinson.com 20
This was a stunning wine, and a quite stunning 1971. Rich, medicinal, minty, sweet, flattering but with great Latour structure. Wonderful balance. Long. Gorgeous for current drinking.
Anticipated maturity: 1985-2030
Vinous 95
The 1971 Latour is a wine I have drunk three or four times over the years. It is considered one of the few successes on an otherwise patchy Left Bank vintage. Decanted and served blind, the 1971 refuses to play ball for the first couple of hours. It s a b
Anticipated maturity: 2024-2044
Wine Advocate 93
Tasted blind from magnum at the chateau, this is certainly the best bottle I have had of the ’71, generally agreed to be the finest Left Bank of an average vintage. At first, it is a little subdued on the nose but unfurls in the glass to reveal notes of graphite, tobacco and liquorice. In fact, leaving it in my glass it offers an intriguing cola note. The palate is tannic and vibrant, dry and a little austere at first by mellowing with aeration with black pepper, graphite and crushed stone towards the finish. Linear and correct, this is an upstanding classic Latour that you will loathe if you dislike traditional Bordeaux. Tasted June 2011.
