A stunning nose that offer simply wonderful complexity leads to racy pure intense and mineral-laden flavors of real length. This is an elegant wine that will require many years to come together completely even from a regular 750 ml bottle. An extremely pretty wine and one of Latour's best recent efforts with this wine. Mostly consistent notes though I should point out that another recent magnum seemed a bit thin on the mid-palate and while the essential character remained the same it didn't have the same buffering material that the wine described above did.

Clean and elegant this is refined on the nose with a stone spice mocha chocolate and cream character. Quite woodsy on the palate turning chewy and a bit rough but with plenty of tropical and other ripe flavors. Best from 2000 through 2006. -PM