Our Wines & Spirits

Robert Parker: This wine was tasted at a vertical tasting held inCharlotte, North Carolina several days before the Christie tasting.The Latour staff spoke far more highly of the 1989 than myexperience has shown.It possesses many characteristics that make great vintages ofBordeaux so alluring - softness, overripeness, and sweet fruit. Theproblem is that there are insufficient quantities of thesecomponents.An evolved dark ruby color reveals amber at the edge. The noseoffers aromas of caramel, coffee, ripe black cherry and currantfruit, cedar, and spice box. Although medium-bodied, with lowacidity, the wine lacks richness in the mid-palate, and issurprisingly abrupt in the finish. It is a very fine, deliciousLatour, but it is hard to believe it will attain the weight andflavor dimensions its producers suggest. Anticipated maturity:now-2020.