Chateau Latour

The estate on chateau Latour became built in the early 14th century in which the property was in the English possession to beginning. Chateau Latour got his name of the fortess tower ‘’ La tour Below Expectations Saint Maubert’’ well, this should serve the good Latour as a defence place in the ‘’Hundred Years Wars’’. Unfortunately, this tower does not exist in today’s time any more, the owner, however, built the chateau Latour in 1620 a similar, just as beautiful tower with names ‘’ La tour de Saint Lambert’’. The copy of this tower is regarded the chateau as trademark since this, and find him on every label from every vintage of the chateau Latour wines. The era on the property should set for her high - attidude flight only much later, though. In 1716 Alexandre de Segur acquired the chateau Latour, two years later his son Nicolas Alexandre de Segur followed him. He followed his predecessor in the expansion measure by Nicolas Alexandre acquiring chateau Mouton and chateau Calon. By these canvassing the quality climbed considerably chateau Latour and the star of the tanning strong Pauillac wine seemed to have risen. One built today’s castle as native country place and sign of the owners then in 1860.

The top property reached the hands of the family Segur after some property changes to the British companies of Harvey of Bristol as well as to the group of Pearson in 1963. Had aimed at these the supremacy from chateau Lafite in the region to attack, and reducing the renunciation of a right to Lafite Rothschild and the reputation of chateau increasing Latour by improving quality and investments in the cellar and vineyard. An another changing at the apex of chateau Latour was in 1989, as Latour was bought for 180mill. Euro from Allied Lyons. Only short time later in 1993 the businessman and his sign multi- millionaire Francois Pinault acquired the chateau Latour and it therefore brought into a French possession again.

Nowadays chateau Latour has developed a strategy quite of its own in marketing and sale as well as distrubition of his wines. So there is rumour that almost 40 per cent of the produced bottles of the century vintage 2005 are still stored on the property in an inventory of their own. It must therefore be assumed that about 120,000 bottles of the premier cru classe wine in the cellars on the chateau Latour slumbers. The owner hereby participates in the great style after subscription of the new wine, wines in the increases in value of the first years. However one can permit Latour the strategy on chateau only by sufficient capital resources within earlier years this was practically unthinkable. All chateau’s were glad about, to have sold the total portfolio completely to be able to produce wine again and have anybody carry out the necessary investments for the next year. By the booming market in Asia, however many wine – growing estate like chateau Lafite Rothschild, chateau Mouton Rothschild, chateau skin Brion and chateau Margaux would like to mention only some, to participate in the climax of return of the wines and maximize the profit.

Chateau Latour has produced some outstanding century wines within the last 100 years. The best vintages on Latour were 1900, 1945, 1952 a sentional in 1961, 1966, 1970, 1982, 1990 and 2000 as well as 2005. ( The probably best Latour of all times with dream appraisals of all crities)

Here now some indications for the tasting to the Chateau Latour: