Louis Latour, Chateau Corton Grancey Vintage:1999 more backward and powerful than

more backward and powerful than the Gravelly Meadow

but the Garnacha is from different plots in the zone of Tudelilla at high altitude

freshness and an elegant dose of fruit or phenolic weight

mineral driven fruit quality that sticks with you here

and my predicted range assumes that will occur over time

Louis Latour, Chateau Corton Grancey Vintage:1999 more backward and powerful thanA restrained and brooding but beautifully complex nose offers up cool red and dark berry fruit aromas that are liberally laced with pungent earth, spice and sauvage hints. On the palate there is more size, weight and concentration than in any of the prior Corton grands crus as well as notably better depth and persistence of the balanced and built to age finish. To be clear, even with the superior size and weight this is still not an especially big