Les Forts de Latour Pauillac 1996 campaign-feature This is the Champagne formerly

This is the Champagne formerly known as Royale Réserve — Philipponnat renamed it to put the actual method on the label

and tastes like the place: red fruit and wild herbs threaded with white pepper and a saline

The Macallan

Chaumees tends to wear its aromatics on its sleeve — more openly floral and perfumed

An inky concentration of flavors along with the taut structure betrays its intention to sit in a cellar for some five years before it unfolds

Les Forts de Latour Pauillac 1996 campaign-feature This is the Champagne formerlyNow 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