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Official Description & Notes

In this episode we’re opening three bottles from Chateau Latour: The 1990
Grand Vin, the 2000 Grand Vin, and the 2010 Les Fort de Latour – Latour’s
second wine.
Some wine collectors consider Chateau Latour to be the alpha among its
peers, and especially after the estate was bought by François Pinault, one
of the world’s richest men, and big investments were made in the vineyards
and to modernize the winery.
Chateau Latour, one of the original four First Growth estates from the 1855
classification, is located in Bordeaux just on the Pauillac side on the border
with St. Julien. The Latour estate consists of 96.5 hectares, or nearly 240
acres, but the Chateau is centered around a 47 hectare legendary plot of
land called L’Enclos. Latour began using stainless steel fermentation back in the 1960’s –decades before other chateaux. An ambitious 4-year long renovation was completed in 2003, and in 2012 Latour built a giant new storage facility and announce it would no longer participate in the “en primeur” market, which is one of the hallmarks of the Bordeaux wine trade. Instead, the Chateau would store its wines in bottle for 8-10 years and then release the wines to the marketplace when it deemed them ready.

2000 Chateau Latour Grand Vin
This “Grand Vin” from the classic 2000 vintage is comprised of mostly
Cabernet Sauvignon with some Merlot and a bit of Cabernet Franc and
Petite Verdot. The wine critics gave the wine anywhere from 97 to 100
points, and average score among the wine community on CellarTracker is
96.5. As all Latours, the wine was fermented in stainless steel vats and
spent 18 months in 100% new French oak barrels.

2010 Les Forts de Latour
The second wine is typically made from grapes outside the 47-acre
L’Enclos vineyard. Other than using only half new oak, the chateau told us
the wine is treated exactly as the Grand Vin in order to create an
exceptional second label.

1990 Chateau Latour Grand Vin
This “Grand Vin” was produced prior to the acquisition by Francois Pinault
in 1993. The wine is made up by mostly Cabernet Sauvignon, some
Merlot, and a tiny bit Cabernet Franc and Petite Verdot with all the grapes
sourced withing the L’Enclos vineyard. The one hiccup was that the cork in
our bottle was saturated and there were signs of a very small amount of
seepage. The fill level was good, however, the wine ended up not being
flawed.

Conclusions
In this section of the video we compare and contrast the three bottles and
share our conclusions about Chateau Latour. Viewers also get a short
glimpse into what happens when the “official” recoding of Our Pour
Decisions ends and we all share the wines over dinner.

Table of Contents
00:00 Introduction
02:57 Map Video
04:16 Welcome Stacey!
05:09 2000 Chateau Latour Grand Vin
08:18 2010 Les Forts de Latour
11:56 1990 Chateau Latour Grand Vin
15:02 Conclusions