($80, Louis Latour USA): Louis Latour, top-notch négociant established in 1797, is based in the Aloxe-Corton.  Since their founding, have been able to purchase prime plots there, so it’s not surprising that they make excellent wines from vineyards in that village.  Les Chaillots, just down from hill from the Grand Cru, Corton-Grèves, is one of the village’s best Premier Cru sites.  Latour’s 2012, very perfumed and elegant, delivers the density of flavor expect from this concentrated vintage without losing the delicate, almost lacey, texture emblematic of this vineyard.  This is a classy Premier Cru, deserving of its stature.
93 Michael Apstein Dec 9, 2014