Chateau Latour a Pomerol 1996 CS20230828 this is a textbook cool-vintage

this is a textbook cool-vintage Bordeaux: firm structure

where the fruit tilts more toward melon and lychee than the peach you find further north

and sweet smoke

transparent expression of terroir

black and red fruit

Chateau Latour a Pomerol 1996 CS20230828 this is a textbook cool-vintageFrom the Moueix family the same hands behind Petrus, just next door Chateau Latour a Pomerol is one of the appellation's quietly great names. The 1996 is now thirty years old, fully mature, and in the heart of its drinking window. A classically structured vintage on the Right Bank, it has shed its primary fruit to reveal the secondary glories of aged Merlot: truffle, forest floor, dried fig, leather. This is mature Pomerol for the table tonight open