Les Forts de Latour Pauillac 1996 NO20230712 Great Sangiovese full of red

Great Sangiovese full of red fruit finishing bright with persistantance and a lot of stucture and finesse

This 2023 vintage captures crushed stones

terroir-driven expression of Pinot Noir

and beautiful underlying minerality

The Rose Frizant is the estate's off-duty bottle: a sparkling rose made by sealing the wine in a pressurized tank before fermentation finishes

Les Forts de Latour Pauillac 1996 NO20230712 Great Sangiovese full of redNow hitting its stride: at thirty years old, the 1996 Les Forts de Latour the second wine of Chteau Latour is moving into the long plateau of mature Pauillac. 1996 was a classical, structured Left Bank vintage that favored Cabernet, and Forts de Latour shows that pedigree: once tightly wound and tannic, it has now mellowed into a firm but silken framework supporting cassis, cedar, tobacco, leather, and the umami complexity that comes only with age. A