Chateau Latour a Pomerol 1996 CS20230828 black and red fruit

black and red fruit

transparent expression of terroir

Nearly two decades of graceful aging have softened this 2005 Graves blend into a refined expression of southern Médoc terroir

and sweet smoke

this is a textbook cool-vintage Bordeaux: firm structure

Chateau Latour a Pomerol 1996 CS20230828 black and red fruitFrom 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