The 1959 Chateau Latour is legendary clearly the wine of this famous "Vintage of the Century""A plush velvety nose, cherries and red currants. Just spellbinding definition and intensity. A faultless pallet. The most hedonistic Latour I have tasted, an irrepressible wine one to cherish." 100 (WA)Importantly, this magnum format has two huge benefits vs bottles: The wine has a plane of maturity typically 20 - 30 years longer than a bottle. Historically, at least through the 1970 vintage, Chateaux bottled barrel by barrel, putting their best barrels into these larger format bottles.