8 bottles per lot
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Château Latour--Vintage 1970
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Lot 670: One slightly torn and two stained labels. Levels: three top-shoulder, four just below top, one upper-shoulder. Offered in carton. Lot 671: Five stained and seven slightly bin-soiled labels. Levels top-shoulder or better
Tasting Note: An immensely impressive wine, and 30 notes which seem hardly to vary from tasting in cask as early as January 1971, and again in April 1972. Even making allowances for its understandably tannic grip, it refuses to budge. Tasted and drunk - more like chewed - in every conceivable circumstance. Like 'the Lion King' it visibly proclaims its power and importance. More recently, one can just detect a touch of maturity; its nose is almost impossible to describe because, unlike the Lion King, it hardly shows its head above the parapet. It needs days of decanting time and hours in the glass. Mouth filling, concentrated, still very tannic. At the Rodenstock blind tasting of great wines, as with Lafite, I preferred the 1870 - it was so much more drinkable. Perhaps one of the most bizarre combinations was its accompanying 'Sorgham molasses - roasted elk with sweet potatoes and huckleberry sauce', at Hal Lewis's Installation dinner, a Bacchus Society annual binge, in Memphis, Tennessee (September 1999). Most recently noted at Zachys/Christie's Millennium Wine Dinner in New York. Last tasted May 1999 ***** It will still be teasing some of you in 50 years' time. M.B.
8 bottles per lot
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Lot 670: One slightly torn and two stained labels. Levels: three top-shoulder, four just below top, one upper-shoulder. Offered in carton. Lot 671: Five stained and seven slightly bin-soiled labels. Levels top-shoulder or better
Tasting Note: An immensely impressive wine, and 30 notes which seem hardly to vary from tasting in cask as early as January 1971, and again in April 1972. Even making allowances for its understandably tannic grip, it refuses to budge. Tasted and drunk - more like chewed - in every conceivable circumstance. Like 'the Lion King' it visibly proclaims its power and importance. More recently, one can just detect a touch of maturity; its nose is almost impossible to describe because, unlike the Lion King, it hardly shows its head above the parapet. It needs days of decanting time and hours in the glass. Mouth filling, concentrated, still very tannic. At the Rodenstock blind tasting of great wines, as with Lafite, I preferred the 1870 - it was so much more drinkable. Perhaps one of the most bizarre combinations was its accompanying 'Sorgham molasses - roasted elk with sweet potatoes and huckleberry sauce', at Hal Lewis's Installation dinner, a Bacchus Society annual binge, in Memphis, Tennessee (September 1999). Most recently noted at Zachys/Christie's Millennium Wine Dinner in New York. Last tasted May 1999 ***** It will still be teasing some of you in 50 years' time. M.B.
8 bottles per lot
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