lookup - most recent entry

I have a 'customer' table (one row per customer - name, email etc), and I have a 'contact' table that records the date of every instance of a customer contacting us (customer ID, date of contact etc). How would I pull in 'date of contact' into the customer table, but rather than all contact dates being pulled through, only the most recent?

So - kind of like how you'd use  'distinct' in SQL, sorted by date 

Thanks!