Les Forts de Latour Pauillac 1996 campaign-feature shifts to a spicy-dry finish

shifts to a spicy-dry finish of cinnamon and nutmeg

soulful introductions

and tastes like the place: red fruit and wild herbs threaded with white pepper and a saline

and citrus peels—steeped

Les Forts de Latour Pauillac 1996 campaign-feature shifts to a spicy-dry finishNow hitting its stride: at thirty years old, the 1996 Les Forts de Latour the second wine of Chteau Latour is moving into the long plateau of mature Pauillac. 1996 was a classical, structured Left Bank vintage that favored Cabernet, and Forts de Latour shows that pedigree: once tightly wound and tannic, it has now mellowed into a firm but silken framework supporting cassis, cedar, tobacco, leather, and the umami complexity that comes only with age. A