A stunning nose that offer simply wonderful complexity leads to racy, pure, intense and mineral-laden flavors of real length. This is an elegant wine that will require many years to come together completely even from a regular 750 ml bottle. An extremely pretty wine and one of Latour's best recent efforts with this wine. Note: another recent magnum seemed a bit thin on the mid-palate and while the essential character remained the same, it didn't have the same buffering material that the wine described above did.

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Clean and elegant, this is refined on the nose, with a stone, spice, mocha, chocolate and cream character. Quite woodsy on the palate, turning chewy and a bit rough, but with plenty of tropical and other ripe flavors.

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At an Acker tasting at 81. The Latour's are similar to older California's, lush, rich but with no complexity. Blah