Les Forts de Latour Pauillac 1996 NO20230712 It is delightful with a

It is delightful with a fresh mint finish

Aromas of dried figs

is a blended malt

Great Sangiovese full of red fruit finishing bright with persistantance and a lot of stucture and finesse

Les Forts de Latour Pauillac 1996 NO20230712 It is delightful with aNow 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