12 bottles per lot
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Château Latour--Vintage 1983
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Very good appearance. In original tissues
In original wooden case
Tasting Note: Not a massive wine, in fact very drinkable. Even in cask though full-bodied it was not vast and opaque. By the mid-1990s, rich, fleshy and fine. More recently, a fragrant, cedary bouquet, sweeter than expected, good fruit and flavour. Drinking most agreeably earlier this century. Ignoring a corky, raw bottle (take no notice of those who say that it is an affectation, a waste of time, to smell the cork after extraction. No so. If it smells of cork, the wine will be corky). Most recently: medium-deep, mature; sweet, 'chewy', oaky nose which opened up richly; sweeter than expected, extract masking tannin. Good but by no means great. Last tasted Sept 2003 *** M.B.
12 bottles per lot
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Very good appearance. In original tissues
In original wooden case
Tasting Note: Not a massive wine, in fact very drinkable. Even in cask though full-bodied it was not vast and opaque. By the mid-1990s, rich, fleshy and fine. More recently, a fragrant, cedary bouquet, sweeter than expected, good fruit and flavour. Drinking most agreeably earlier this century. Ignoring a corky, raw bottle (take no notice of those who say that it is an affectation, a waste of time, to smell the cork after extraction. No so. If it smells of cork, the wine will be corky). Most recently: medium-deep, mature; sweet, 'chewy', oaky nose which opened up richly; sweeter than expected, extract masking tannin. Good but by no means great. Last tasted Sept 2003 *** M.B.
12 bottles per lot
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Offered duty paid, but available in bond. VAT at 17.5% will be charged on the hammer price on removal of the lot from bond.
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Very good appearance. In original tissues. In original wooden case