Château Latour - Pauillac 1982 (6L)
Price: $25000.00
| Producer | Château Latour |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 1982 |
| Sku | 3584 |
| Size | 6L |
Vinous: 100 Points
The 1982 Latour has always been a quintessential Bordeaux and a quintessential Latour. This is just as composed and detailed as the finest bottles that I have encountered bridled with captivating blackberry graphite and cedar aromas that are brilliantly focused. Perhaps it is not quite as showy as it was a few years ago yet it is still regal and as blue-blooded as they come. The palate is ineffably graceful and chiselled down to the finest detail. One bottle at the International Business and Wine dinner is perhaps more understated than previous examples but another in Hong Kong delivers such tension and precision that you can only kowtow before it. The 1982 is a masterful regal Latour and probably now the finest Left Bank exponent of this vintage. Tasted at the International Business & Wine Latour dinner at Ten Trinity and at the Latour dinner in Hong Kong.
vWine Advocate: 100 Points
Always somewhat atypical (which I suspect will be the case with the more modern day 2003) the 1982 Latour has been the most opulent flamboyant and precocious of the northern Medocs especially the St.-Juliens Pauillacs and St.-Estephes. It hasn?t changed much over the last 10-15 years revealing sweet tannins as well as extraordinarily decadent even extravagant levels of fruit glycerin and body. It is an amazing wine and on several occasions I have actually picked it as a right bank Pomerol because of the lushness and succulence of the cedary blackberry black currant fruit. This vintage has always tasted great even in its youth and revealed a precociousness that one does not associate with this Chateau. However the 1982 is still evolving at a glacial pace. The concentration remains remarkable and the wine is a full-bodied exuberant rich classic Pauillac in its aromatic and flavor profiles. It?s just juiced up (similar to an athlete on steroids) and is all the better for it. This remarkable effort will last as long as the 1982 Mouton but it has always been more approachable and decadently fruity. Drink it now in 20 years and in 50 years! Don?t miss it if you are a wine lover. Release price: ($350.00/case)
Wine Spectator: 98 Points
Big and chewy. Full-bodied with velvety tannins and a long long currant berry and cherry character. Underrated. Still more to come in this wine.--Bordeaux retrospective. Drink now.
