Offered at a significant price reduction to the ‰۪09
accented by grapefruit granita and smoky mineral flavors
this retains a sense of balance and focus
*Editors' Choice* A complex and complete wine with everything in place
a bit of what I call these days "Soalheiro green
1990 Latour, Pauillac Offered at a significant priceThis is one of the more perplexing Latours to evaluate. It has plenty of sweetness as well as a gorgeous, rich fruitiness, but it lacks the firmness one finds in more recent great vintages such as 1996, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2008. There is plenty of sweet, ripe currant fruitiness, abundant glycerin, and full body, but Im still waiting for that extra nuance of complexity to emerge. Its all there, but the wine still seems to be more monolithic