Therefore, I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the 1975 Georges de Latour bottling of cabernet remained so vigorous- perhaps already looking over the far side of its plateau, but not yet in full descent and still very much an enjoyable glass of mature wine. The wine takes a good fifteen or twenty minutes to flesh out on the palate after opening, as the remaining tannins are a bit bare-boned out of the blocks, but the fruit comes up nicely and this wine gives a lovely hour to ninety minute window of fine drinking, before it again starts to get a bit sinewy on the palate. During its prime period, the wine offers up a really lovely nose of red and black cherries, a bit of plum, Rutherford dust spice tones, sweet cigar wrapper and gentle notes of toasted coconut from its American oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and really quite nicely delineated, with a good core, still a bit of tannin and fine freshness and purity on the long and focused finish. I suspect it is absolutely stunning still in magnum. It is probably the best remaining wine from the decade of the 1970s at BV, and is still a very lovely testimony to just how good those wines were in their glory days. 2013-2020+? (JG91-87)