1996 Château Latour · Pauillac
| Producer | Château Latour |
| Vintage | 1996 |
| Region | Pauillac, Bordeaux |
| Blend | Cabernet Sauvignon dominant, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot |
| Classification | Premier Grand Cru Classé 1855 |
The 1996 vintage was tailor-made for Pauillac, and Latour made the most of it. Cool, dry conditions pushed Cabernet Sauvignon to exceptional ripeness while preserving the tension and structure that defines this estate. Massive, brooding, and classically austere in its youth, this is a wine of extraordinary depth — dark fruit, graphite, iron, cedar, and tobacco layered over a spine of granite-firm tannins. Thirty years on it’s finally beginning to open, revealing the kind of precision and power that only the greatest left bank estates can achieve. One of the iconic bottles of the decade.
