{"id":14032,"date":"2017-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/3-things-you-didnt-know-about-louis-latour"},"modified":"2017-10-05T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:44:55","slug":"3-things-you-didnt-know-about-louis-latour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.invinic.com\/en\/3-things-you-didnt-know-about-louis-latour","title":{"rendered":"3 things you didn’t know about Louis Latour"},"content":{"rendered":"
Does the name Louis Latour<\/strong> ring a bell? If you’re a fan of Burgundy wine<\/strong><\/a>, it should. Maison Louis Latour is one of the best-known wine producers and wine merchants in all of Burgundy. The Latour family has been growing vines in the vineyards of Burgundy<\/strong><\/a> since the 16th century, and today the family company is run by the seventh in a line of men named Louis, Louis-Fabrice Latour.<\/p>\n You may have seen Louis Latour wines on store shelves or in restaurants. You might have even tasted some of them yourself. How much do you really know about Maison Louis Latour and its wines, though? Read on for three things you probably didn’t know about this historic family wine business.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With such an extensive family history in the region, there are probably closer to 300 things you didn’t know about Louis Latour. Let’s keep it simple, and go with the three most important facts that make Louis Latour such a special company.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Louis Latour has got to be proud of this one.\u00a0Grand Cru<\/a><\/strong> is one of those tricky terms in wine, mainly because it means different things from one region to another. In Burgundy, “Grand Cru<\/strong><\/a>” is the highest classification that a vineyard can have. Crucially, it is the vineyard land itself that is not classified and not its owner or the producer.\u00a0This is in contrast with Bordeaux<\/strong><\/a>, where it’s the producers that are classified, regardless of whether they buy or sell part of their vineyard land.<\/p>\n The C\u00f4te d’Or<\/strong><\/a> (“the golden slope”) is the beating heart of the Burgundy region. It is subdivided into the C\u00f4te de Nuits and C\u00f4te de Beaune. Broadly speaking, the C\u00f4te de Nuits is home to Burgundy’s finest red wines, and the C\u00f4te de Beaune produces the best whites. Let’s summarise, then: Louis Latour owns more Grand Cru land – that is, the best vineyard sites – in the C\u00f4te d’Or, Burgundy’s finest region. That’s a big deal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Though the Louis Latour name will be forever entwined with the C\u00f4te d’Or and Burgundy in general, there’s more to it than that. Never content to stand still, Maison Louis Latour has developed vineyards and wine production outside its Burgundian stronghold.<\/p>\n Louis Latour was an early pioneer in the relatively unknown region of Ard\u00e8che, on the southern bank of the Rh\u00f4ne river. Ard\u00e9che occupies some rather unfashionable vineyard land between the far more prestigious regions of the Northern Rh\u00f4ne and Southern Rh\u00f4ne. Here, Louis Latour produces some world-class white\u00a0wines, exporting its Burgundy know-how and expertise to cultivate the Chardonnay<\/strong><\/a> grape.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, you’ll find Louis Latour vineyards in Provence<\/strong><\/a>. Here, the Latour team takes advantage of its red wine expertise to produce excellent Pinot Noir<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oak barrels<\/strong><\/a> are big business in the world of fine wine. French oak<\/strong><\/a>, in particular, is in such high demand that there is an entire industry dedicated to producing oak barrels in France. These companies are called cooperages, and they supply oak vessels to the producers of the best wines in the world<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Louis Latour has its own cooperage, which is unique in Burgundy. Here, they produce around 3,500 barrels per year. Of these, about half are used to age Louis Latour wines and the other half are sold to other wine producers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [cta_generico id=2595]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does the name Louis Latour ring a bell? If you’re a fan of Burgundy wine, it should. Maison Louis Latour is one of the best-known wine producers and wine merchants in all of Burgundy. The Latour family has been growing vines in the vineyards of Burgundy since the 16th century, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[491],"class_list":["post-14032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wineries","tag-burgundy"],"yoast_head":"\n3 things you didn’t know about Louis Latour<\/strong><\/h2>\n
1. Louis Latour owns more Grand Cru vineyards in the C\u00f4te d’Or than anybody else<\/strong><\/h3>\n
2. Louis Latour doesn’t just<\/em> make Burgundy wine<\/strong><\/h3>\n
3. Louis Latour is the only Burgundy producer to make its own barrels<\/strong><\/h3>\n