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

this is a textbook cool-vintage Bordeaux: firm structure

black and red fruit

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

Celles-sur-ource

and sweet smoke

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