1966 Chateau Latour Grand Vin [JG96][WA96][V95]

Producer: Chateau Latour Region: Pauillac, Bordeaux, France Blend: Bordeaux Red Blend   Year: 1966   John Gilman, 96 Points  "When I read that the British ownership group had started to “soften up” Latour’s structured and powerful style just a bit after the purchase in 1963, I immediately thought back to this utterly classic 1966 version as persuasive evidence that the assertion was simply the misperception of commentators at the time! To my mind, this is one of the great, forgotten legends produced at Latour in the twentieth century and this wine remains very close in quality to the twin towers of 1959 and 1961 that preceded it by half a decade. The wine is now into its plateau of peak maturity, but in classic Latour style, still with structure to carry it many more decades down the road. The bouquet offers up a superb blend of sweet cassis, black cherries, black truffles, cigar box, gravelly soil tones, still a bit of tobacco leaf and a nice framing of cedar. On the palate the wine