シャトー・ラトゥール　1985

シャトー・ラトゥール　［1985］　赤　750ml【楽ギフ_包装選択】【ラベルカビが見られますが品質管理状態は良好です】　96凄いワインですね。ラトゥール特有の凝縮感は熟成で減って来て、ブルゴーニュにも感じる様なリキュール感が出て来ています。パーカー評価は4本の中で最も低く、88点ですが、私は最も美味しいワインだと思いました。ボルドー的な世界を超えたワインだと思います。まあそこら辺が評価が分かれる部分かも知れません。透明感があって滑らかで、球体的な広がりを持つ、稀少なボルドーです。1985 Latour Wine Advocate #129 Jun 2000 Robert Parker 88 Drink: 2000 - 2012 $480-$761 This wine was tasted from my personal collection, following the Latour tasting. The 1985 Latour is a soft, open-knit example, without much structure, delineation, and depth. The dark ruby color displays amber at the edge. The bouquet of tobacco, black fruits, herbs, earth, and new oak is pleasant, but neither intense nor persistent. The wine is medium-bodied, with sweet fruit on the attack, but it narrows out to reveal dry tannin and herbaceous notes. Anticipated maturity: now-2012.  Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition Jan 1998 Robert Parker 87 Drink: 1997 - 2008 $480-$761 This has always been a weak, open-knit, fruity, light-styled Latour. The wine exhibits a deep ruby color with some lightening at the edge. There is a jammy, berry fragrance intertwined with herbs and earth. In the mouth, the wine is surprisingly light, and has always been accessible. There is little grip, tannin, or extract in the finish, which quickly disappears. Anticipated maturity: Now-2008. Last tasted 1/97      Wine Advocate #88 Aug 1993 Robert Parker 87 Drink: 1993 - 2008 $480-$761 (65) Somewhat weak when considered in the context of what Latour is capable of achieving, the 1985 is medium-bodied, has a good but not dense ruby color, a moderately intense berry fragrance, fine depth and length, but is surprisingly light and accessible for the style of this estate. Anticipated maturity: Now-2008. Last tasted, 1/93      Wine Advocate #84 Dec 1992 Robert Parker 90 Drink: 1995 - 2010 $480-$761 Last Tasted 6/92This is the best showing yet of the 1985 Latour, a wine that I have consistently rated in the mid to upper eighties. Most tastings of it have revealed a light, precocious style of Latour. At two tastings this summer, the wine was considerably richer and fuller. While surprisingly evolved and soft, it appears to possess more body and depth than I initially projected. It is an outstanding wine, with deep color, soft tannins, and plenty of the classic mineral, cassis, walnut-like fragrance that characterizes many vintages of Latour. Approachable now, the wine should reach its plateau of maturity by the mid-nineties and last through the first decade or more of the next century.