1970 Latour
Marguerite Gilbeau
The chateau makes three different wines. The so-called grand vin, that is Chteau Latour itself, a second wine called Les Forts de Latour and a third wine simply called Pauillac. The grand vin comes from the original part of the vineyards, called the Enclos. This is the most prestigious part of the vineyard where the vines have a fine view of the Gironde estuary. The tradition in Bordeaux says that vines that overlook the water make the best w...
1970
The weather conditions
After a fairly mild winter, growth started towards the end of March, but the vegetation was immediately and adversely affected by frosts at the beginning of April. Early spring was cold with growth retarded. Full flowering was on 15 June during a hot spell with only a few storms. July was fine and very hot, and the grapes started to ripen on the 25th, but only slowly due to the dry weather. August was moderate...
Obviously, as wines age, especially once they are over 20, let alone 50 years old, there are no great wines, only great bottles. This is by far, the best bottle of 1970 Latour I have ever tasted. Just sublime in every way. Full-bodied, concentrated, ripe, sweet, fresh, earthy, and packed to the gills with sweet cassis, black currants, cedar, tobacco leaf, cigar box, herbs, forest leaf, and spice. The perfect blend of regal, refined, and austere, with a seemingly, non-stop finish. Decanted maybe 10-20 minutes, and enjoyed for as long as it lasted in our glasses. 97 Points
Latour 1970 showed fine Cabernet Sauvignon notes on the nose, fine balance and complexity on the palate, and long finish. A well-preserved wine with everything in splendid order. Still going strong. 95p.
n neck fill. Decanted for three hours and not enough. Deep ruby, garnet rim. Tight, closed, shutt, red berries far behind. Finally some scented touch and floral notes appearing, getting more intense, slowly, took five hours. Layered, nuanced, violets, pure cassis, refreshing nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, massive texture, a cathedral of a wine, mountain of tannins with fruit and power to back it, long, nuanced and fresh. 98
I got a 1970 Mouton for a wedding gift in 1976 from a fellow law student. I think it was about $10 at the time and it was a great gift. I also picked up a case of 1974 Haut Brion for less than $10 a bottle.
When claims of rot tainted our ideas of purchasing heavy in '83 Burgundy, we went to Oregon and brought in all the great '83 Pinots from Adelsheim, Eyrie, Ponzi etc and sold all those for $10-$12 a bottle. Now that at the time was NOT an easy sale - people looked at me like I was forcing wines from New Jersey on them.
Tarlant Cuve Louis
A lovely mature Champagne with the complexities of bottle age. Gorgeous perfume with brioche and crme brulee nuances. Balanced with nice underlying fruit accented by tinges of crme brulee and a nice crispness on the finish.
1985 Rene Collard Ros
Made from Pinot Meunier this Champagne is still amazingly fresh after over 30 years. This Champagne house ceased to exist in the 1990s with the death of Ren Collard. But, the iconic Pinot Meunier based Champagnes of Ren Collard live on and are a pleasure to drink today. The 1985 ros is a prime example. Lovely color with a nice perfume of red fruits showing floral tinges and a hint of citrus. On the palate, creamy and beautifully balanced with subtle fruit nuances accented by citrus and floral spice. Amazing and delicious!
1970 Latour (Magnum)
The 1970 Latour was always one of the best wines of the vintage and much better than Lafite or Mouton. As is typical for Latour, it has aged magnificently. But, we have to remember that this is the magnum with the cork in the bottle that was left standing up for 6 months. Decanted into 2 decanters no one would have ever guessed. Dark in color with a faint amber edge. Lovely perfume cedary nuances accented by hints of cassis. Quite rich and full. Rounded. Great balance with a nice underlying structure. A truly outstanding example of 1970 Latour.
1970 Gruaud-Larose
Nice color with a faint amber tinge this Saint Julien has a lovely perfume with faint cedar nuances. Elegant and very refined it is balanced and rounded with a lot of charm. A bit overwhelmed by the more powerful wines in the group, but the wine is beautifully mature and a pleasure to drink.
CHTEAU GRAND PUY LACOSTE: Always found this property to deliver excellent quality for the price and balanced for extended aging. Big collector. Picked earlier but captured a lot of Pauillac character and vintage style that continues to delight.
CHTEAU DUCRU-BEAUCAILLOU: Still a deep dark look with paling rim. Impressive fruit as one of the top 1970s for sure this Super Second. Wonderful textbook St. Julien that really sings with roast duck tacos!
CHTEAU LATOUR: First Growth level. Underrated in classic old style wine making that will still get better IMHO. Some wine writers say it is going down hill but bottle variation again. Well stored bottles can really impress with their typical density and that acidity balance keeping the wine fresh so finally coming around to greatness.
In Bordeaux the vintage 1970 was very good and relieves after the last complicated years. The grape harvests are plentiful and the quality very good and homogeneous for all appellations. The Pomerol, Saint-Emilion and Graves are slightly ahead for the classified growths. The best Bordeaux wines of 1970 are Palmer 1970, Chteau Lynch-Bages 1970, Pichon-Longueville Comtesse 1970, Petrus 1970, Chteau Ausone 1970... In Sauternes the sweet wines are good but a bit simple, the fault is a lack of botrytis. The red wines of Burgundy in 1970 are light and quite charming. In Champagne the yield is a record for the 20th century. In the Rhne Valley it is a serious vintage, the southern Rhne prevails over the northern Rhne.
To help you choose your bottle of wine, expert notes (Robert Parker, Jancis Robinson, JM Quarin ...) are available. All bottles of 1970 wine are in stock and shipped the same day of your order for next day delivery in Europe.
I have consumed over a case of this wine, and consistently rated it in the mid to upper-nineties. The three bottles from the Chateau's cellars were variable, but seemed surprisingly herbal, with notes of soy, cedar, roasted vegetables, leather, and earth dominating the wine's fruit. Tasty, elegant, medium-bodied, and fully mature, the 1970 is excellent, but not inspirational.
It appeared to have at least two decades of life remaining. Readers who purchase old vintages of great wines, regardless of whether they are Bordeaux, Burgundy, and California Cabernet, need to remember the expression, "there are no great wines, just great bottles," particularly after a wine reaches 30 years of age. - RP
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A bottle of CN Tower La Tour CN Canadian whisky in a shape of Toronto's iconic CN Tower. This was produced by McGuinness Distillers Limited, Toronto. The Canadian tax strip reads 1970. This indicates that the youngest whisky in the bottle was distilled in 1970.
Note the absence of a condition statement does not imply that this lot is in perfect condition or free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of ageing. Older bottles often contain small amounts of sediment. We cannot guarantee that the contents of this bottle will be free from the effects of age, cork taint, oxidation or other faults.
The 1970 Chteau Haut-Brion is a First Growth that has probably been over-shadowed by the Latour 1970 during its lifetime. However, this bottle proves that it is not to be underestimated; it highlights the glaring gap that exists between itself and another First Growth, the 1970 Chteau Margaux that I tasted alongside. There is plenty of vigor on the nose with dashing red berry fruit, cedar and black olive - just very Haut-Brion.The palate is medium-bodied, well balanced and fresh, nothing over-ambitious, just a Claret in the traditional sense of the word that gently builds towards a sous-bois dominated finish. This is an excellent showing, stout and a little austere, and you could argue an Haut-Brion with its peak in its wing-mirrors. Yet good bottles such as this will continue to offer pleasure for another decade. Tasted June 2015. - Neal Martin, Wine Advocate
The 1970 Chteau La Tour de Mons is a Bordeaux red wine from the Margaux appellation. This fine wine is a blend of 56% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Petit Verdot. Ranked Cru Bourgeois, Chteau La Tour de Mons produces wines in pure Margaux tradition. Elegance, classicism and purity of the fruit, here's what you can taste in a Chteau La Tour de Mons. Ancient wine, the 1970 Chteau La Tour de Mons will delight lovers of fine Bordeaux and make a unique wine-themed gift.
This paper examines the influence of Bruno Latour on accounting research through his work as a founding father of so-called actor-network theory (hereafter referred to as"ANT") which was originally developed in the mid to late 1970's as a means to understand the social construction of science. Essentially, ANT is an analytical framework used to study the roles of humans and non-humans in the structuring of society (Latour, 2005). It is through a series of complex interactions between humans and non-humans and the ways in which they interlock within networks of construction andreconstruction which allow the production of accepted facts or knowledge (McNamara, Baxter & Chua, 2004, p. 57).
ORIENTATION: Given theory offered by Kuhn and Lakatos that predicts academic research can be non-innovative, this research sought to test the extent to which the motivational values of highly productive researchers are innovative.
RESEARCH PURPOSE: The aim of the research was to test theory predicting the structure of motivational values of academics in the South African university context.
MOTIVATION FOR THE STUDY: The study was motivated by a lack of knowledge about whether innovative and self-transcendence (the prioritisation of the needs of others) values characterise highly productive researchers.
RESEARCH DESIGN, APPROACH AND METHOD: A large South African university was sampled. Multiple linear regression and structural equation modelling techniques were applied.
MAIN FINDINGS: Findings indicate that non-innovative and gendered motivational values of security (sensitivity to uncertainty and safety issues) are associated with higher productivity. However, hedonism (self-oriented) and benevolence (self-transcendent) values are both found to be negatively associated with research productivity.
PRACTICAL/MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS: Supporting Kuhn's perspective, innovative values such as self-direction are not found to be related to research productivity.
CONTRIBUTION/VALUE-ADD: This study provides evidence in support of theory which predicts that academic research might not be motivated by innovative values.