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Estimate: $1,600
4 very top shoulder, light adhesive residue on capsules, very lightly scuffed labels. "The owner of this wine acquired it directly from the Latour Estate cellars. It was stored in a cold humid, natural cellar, 10m under a small hill in the Loire Valley. The levels were exceptional. The wines were extremely fresh, tasting much the same as the wines from the Estate's cellar from the same vintages. For that reason, the Château made an exception, putting new labels and capsules on this bottle. Reference: Frédéric Engerer, President, Château Latour"
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91-93NM
"This extraordinary wine was tasted alongside VCC 1971 - unbelievably this was the more youthful in appearance! The nose was open-knit, expressive with soft leathery red fruits. The palate is full of smooth tannins with notes of coffee and molasses. Incredibly well-balanced and youthful. Very soft textured and elegant on the finish. - this exemplifies everything about great mature Bordeaux . . . . Would probably be overlooked by many. Absolutely superb."
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"This extraordinary wine was tasted alongside VCC 1971 - unbelievably this was the more youthful in appearance! The nose was open-knit, expressive with soft leathery red fruits. The palate is full of smooth tannins with notes of coffee and molasses. Incredibly well-balanced and youthful. Very soft textured and elegant on the finish. - this exemplifies everything about great mature Bordeaux . . . . Would probably be overlooked by many. Absolutely superb."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
The world's largest fine-wine region, built around blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Divided by the Gironde estuary into the structured Left Bank and the plush, Merlot-led Right Bank, it is the historic benchmark for age-worthy claret and sweet Sauternes.
Home to three of Bordeaux's five First Growths, Pauillac is the Left Bank benchmark for powerful, structured Cabernet Sauvignon. Its wines are famed for cassis, cedar and graphite notes and exceptional aging potential.
Chateau Latour is a First Growth estate in Pauillac, Bordeaux, renowned for powerful, dense and extraordinarily long-lived Cabernet-dominated wines, especially its Grand Vin from the historic l'Enclos vineyard.
An aromatic red grape lending perfume, red fruit and a leafy, savory edge. It thrives in the Loire and as a key blending partner in Bordeaux, especially Saint-Emilion.
The world's most planted premium red grape, yielding deeply colored, tannic and structured wines with cassis, cedar and graphite notes. Firm tannins and acidity make it exceptionally age-worthy, whether as a varietal or the backbone of a Bordeaux blend.
Produces plush, supple, fruit-forward reds with plum and chocolate notes. Softer and earlier-maturing than Cabernet, it adds flesh and roundness to blends and stars in Right Bank Bordeaux.
A deeply colored, tannic Bordeaux blending grape adding color, structure and floral, spicy complexity in small proportions.