Les Forts de Latour

Specification

Producer

Latour

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Classification

Second wine of Château Latour

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot

Vintage

1989

Case

75cl

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

LATOUR891X75

About this wine

Les Forts de Latour is the second wine of Château Latour, made from younger vines in the Enclos and from separate plots nearby, with the same care as the grand vin. It has the estate’s depth and structure in a slightly more approachable style, and from good vintages it ages for decades. Like the grand vin, it is now released only when ready to drink.

About Latour

Château Latour stands on a gravel rise above the Gironde estuary at the southern edge of Pauillac, beside the old tower that gives the estate its name and appears on its label. It was one of the four estates ranked First Growth in the 1855 Classification of the Médoc and has been owned since 1993 by François Pinault.

The heart of the estate is the walled vineyard around the tower, known as l’Enclos, whose grapes go into the grand vin. Latour is farmed organically, and since the 2012 vintage it has stopped selling en primeur, releasing its wines only when it judges them ready to drink.