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A SUPERB PRIVATE COLLECTION OF FINE AND RARE BORDEAUX AND VENERABLE COGNAC
Recently removed from the cellar of a country house in the south of England and now lying in Twickenham, Middlesex (EHD)
Lots 722 to 769
Château Latour--Vintage 1928
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Lot 722 bin-soiled and slightly scuffed label. Level top-shoulder. Lot 723 very bin-soiled, very stained and very damaged label. Level top-shoulder. Lot 724 no label. Level top-shoulder. Lots 725 and 726 corroded capsules. No labels. Lot 725 level mid-shoulder. Lot 726 level low-shoulder
Tasting Note: I am putting this first, for it was, and still is, the star of the vintage. Like the 1870 Lafite, so dense, powerful and bitterly tannic that it was a full half century before it was mellow enough to be enjoyed. I have been privileged to taste this wine on 16 occasions following its progress from 'enormous, too full of tannin' in 1953. Very austere, yet tannin cloaked and velvet and opening up in the 1970s. I considered it at its peak in the 1980s: intensely deep; spicy, cinnamon, cedary bouquet; surprisingly sweet and velvety despite its tannin, masculine with great concentration and length. But on it goes. Four impressive bottles, fabulous bouquets but still very tannic, even harsh (in Zurich 1994). An oxidised bottle then an impressive bottle, fragrant, drinking perfectly. Last tasted at Joshua Latner's dinner, Jan 2000. At best ***** M.B.
1 bottle per lot
Recently removed from the cellar of a country house in the south of England and now lying in Twickenham, Middlesex (EHD)
Lots 722 to 769
Château Latour--Vintage 1928
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Lot 722 bin-soiled and slightly scuffed label. Level top-shoulder. Lot 723 very bin-soiled, very stained and very damaged label. Level top-shoulder. Lot 724 no label. Level top-shoulder. Lots 725 and 726 corroded capsules. No labels. Lot 725 level mid-shoulder. Lot 726 level low-shoulder
Tasting Note: I am putting this first, for it was, and still is, the star of the vintage. Like the 1870 Lafite, so dense, powerful and bitterly tannic that it was a full half century before it was mellow enough to be enjoyed. I have been privileged to taste this wine on 16 occasions following its progress from 'enormous, too full of tannin' in 1953. Very austere, yet tannin cloaked and velvet and opening up in the 1970s. I considered it at its peak in the 1980s: intensely deep; spicy, cinnamon, cedary bouquet; surprisingly sweet and velvety despite its tannin, masculine with great concentration and length. But on it goes. Four impressive bottles, fabulous bouquets but still very tannic, even harsh (in Zurich 1994). An oxidised bottle then an impressive bottle, fragrant, drinking perfectly. Last tasted at Joshua Latner's dinner, Jan 2000. At best ***** M.B.
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