It has been a couple of years since I last crossed paths with the 1996 La Tâche, but the wine was showing enormous potential when I last had the pleasure to taste it. The bouquet is deep, pure and still quite primary in...
It has been a couple of years since I last crossed paths with the 1996 La Tâche, but the wine was showing enormous potential when I last had the pleasure to taste it. The bouquet is deep, pure and still quite primary in its mélange of red plums, black cherries, Vosne spices, duck, a beautifully complex base of minerality, woodsmoke, a bit of cocoa and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very tangy, with a rock solid core, a fine sense of focus and balance, ripe, well-integrated tannins and a long, youthful and vibrant finish. All this vintage of La Tâche needs is more time in the cellar.