<A HREF="http://www.orwines.com" TITLE="Oregon Wine Merchants"><IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/owm/owmlogo.jpg" ALT="Oregon Wine Merchants" NAME="Oregon Wine Merchants" BORDER=0></A><BR> <H1>Chateau Latour 1990 -- Oregon Wine Merchants Shopping Cart</H1> <B>$1,295.00</B> -- <I>An almost perfect wine and one of the most sought-after bottles in the world.</I> <P> <IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/owm/images/fra015m.jpg" ALIGN=right ALT="Chateau Latour 1990" NAME="Chateau Latour 1990" BORDER=0 HSPACE=10> <font size="-2" face="Verdana"></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">"Medium-deep red. Great vibrant nose of redcurrant, licorice, minerals and tobacco, along with a minty austerity. Thick and large-scaled, like an essence of Pauillac. Really explodes in the middle palate. Incredible unfolding peacock tail of a finish. A monumental, powerfully structured wine with great long-term aging potential. Drink 2008 through 2040."<br /><br /><b><font size="4">98 points</font><br /><br /></b></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">By Stephen Tanzer, Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar, Jul/Aug '02 </font><br /><font size="-1" face="Verdana"><b><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></font><p>"This is one of my favorite wines ever. Full-bodied, with layers of silky fruit and masses of currant, mineral and berry character. Amazing. It's a wine with perfect structure, perfect strength. It's 1961 Latour in modern clothes. It's hard not to drink it now. '89/'90 Bordeaux non-blind horizontal. Best after 2008."</p> <p> <nobr /></p> <h1><font size="4">Score: <span>100</span></font></h1> &#169;The Wine Spectator, February 28th, 2005<br /><br /><br />"Tasted 6 Times Since Bottling With Consistent Notes Unquestionably the 1990 is the finest, most archetypical Latour since the 1982 and 1970. This monumental wine signals a return to the more forceful, opaquely colored, powerful, brute-like strength style for which Latour was famous during most of this century. The flirtation, intentional or otherwise, with a lighter style of wine is not apparent in this blockbuster. The 1990 exhibits tight but highly promising aromas of minerals, roasted nuts, and super-ripe, rich cassis fruit. It is an exceptionally powerful wine, with massive intensity, plenty of glycerin, as well as extraordinary extract and mouth-searing tannins that explode on the palate. Along with Margaux and Petrus, Latour is a strong favorite for the wine of the vintage! A triumph! Anticipated maturity: 2000-2035."<br /><br /><font size="4"><b>98 points</b></font><br /><br />Robert Parker, &#169;<span class="whiteTxt" id="ctl00_ContentMaster_DataList1_ctl02_sourceLabel">Wine Advocate # 95, Oct 1994</span><br /><br />"This is a beauty, but not the awesome blockbuster I remembered. There is a roasted, earthy, hot year character with extremely low acidity, fleshy, seductive, opulently-textured flavors, and a full-bodied finish with considerable amounts of glycerin and tannin. The wine was sweet, accessible, and seductive on the attack, but it closed down in the mouth. Interestingly, when I previously tasted this wine (about six months ago) from a bottle in my cellar, I found it to be impenetrable, needing at least 6-10 years of further cellaring. Based on this example from the Chateau's cellar, it could be drunk now. In any event, it will last 25-30 years, but is it the immortal classic many observers, including myself, thought it was? Anticipated maturity: 2005-2030."<br /><br /><font size="4"><b>96 points</b></font><br /><br />Robert Parker, <span class="whiteTxt" id="ctl00_ContentMaster_DataList1_ctl00_sourceLabel">Wine Advocate # 129, June 2000</span><br /><br /></P> <P> <LI>SKU: FRA015 </P> <P><B>Other products in the category <A HREF="http://shop.orwines.com/Category1" TITLE="All Wines">All Wines</A>:</B> <BR clear=left><BR><LI><A HREF=http://shop.orwines.com/Product368 TITLE="720 Wine Cellars, Or'Deaux Oregon Red Wine 2004">720 Wine Cellars, Or'Deaux Oregon Red Wine 2004</A> -- Judicious exposure to French oak barrels for 20 months gives this Bordeaux-styled wine some serious structure and age potential. 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