Chateau Latour Les Forts de Latour 2017

✦ The Landscape & Terroir
Bordeaux is a landscape of rivers, gravel, clay and restrained maritime light. The Gironde and its tributaries moderate the climate, while the soils shape the wine’s structure and longevity. In Pauillac, Bordeaux, France, Pauillac gravel and clay give the wine its frame, depth and sense of place.

✦ The Wine & Varieties
2017 Chateau Latour 'Les Forts de Latour' is made from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot-led Bordeaux blend. For Hong Kong collectors new to European fine wine, this is a way to understand place through structure: fruit gives pleasure, but terroir gives the wine its shape and memory.

✦ Winemaking Philosophy
The wine reflects estate-grown fruit from Château Latour vineyards. The cellar work is not about making the loudest wine, but about preserving proportion, texture and the identity of the vineyard. Ageing: French oak ageing at the estate.

✦ Taste Profile
Expect dark fruit, refined tannins, cedar spice and a long structured finish that opens slowly in the glass. It is a wine to serve with care, open with time and enjoy as it moves from fruit toward detail.

✦ Why It Matters
2017 Chateau Latour 'Les Forts de Latour' matters because it carries the Latour signature in a more open, earlier-drinking form. It belongs in a cellar not only as a luxury bottle, but as a reference point for how origin, vintage and human judgement can meet in one glass.

✦ Key Facts
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot-led Bordeaux blend
Region: Pauillac, Bordeaux, France
Soil: Pauillac gravel and clay
Farming method: estate-grown fruit from Château Latour vineyards
Ageing: French oak ageing at the estate
Serving temperature: 16–18°C
Ageing potential: 15–30 years