We’ve something a bit different this week: six wines not only from the same region (Burgundy) but also the same producer (Maison Louis Latour).
The Wine Company’s Mark Cronshaw presented such a fine selection of Latour’s wines that they were impossible to resist, especially after we’d cornered him to demand some pretty punchy discounts.
Maison Louis Latour is one of the great names of Burgundy, family-owned since 1797 and currently in the hands of 11th—generation Louis-Fabrice Latour. The company boasts a vast range of wines and it wasn’t easy whittling them down to the following three Chardonnays and three Pinot Noirs. I’m confident, though, that we have a fine selection. The mixed case price is higher than we usually offer in these pages — but quality burgundies are never cheap, and do please bear in mind the substantial discounts we squeezed out of Mark Cronshaw, up to four quid a bottle in some cases.
Burgundy is on a roll and has responded to the challenge of the New World by making better wines than ever, thanks to replanting with better clones, lower yields, more conscientious wine-making and so on, and I reckon the proof is here to see.
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