12 bottles per lot
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Offered in original wooden case
Recently removed from an excellent cellar
Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1986
Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Levels into neck
Tasting note: First noted at the Union des Grands Crus tasting at Christie's in 1988. It showed well. Good depth of fruit, long but lean and taut. Four recent notes: trying to mature; fragrant but hard, crisp, citrus-like fruit, and tannic. Refreshing. Unready (1996). Still fairly intense; low-keyed, slightly peppery, just waking up; some sweetness, but with teeth-gripping tannins (tasted blind 1998). Most recently, a magnum, still very deep, thick (extract) but with a surprisingly mature, orange rim that I associate with tannins dominating the fruit (like some '75s). Very 'medicinal', iron, typically Lafite nose; more amenable than I expected, good mid-palate fruit but hard edged. Something like a '62 or a '66. Last noted at a combined children's birthday lunch party at home, Jan 1999 (****) I propose to leave my children Emma and Bartholomew two magnums each in my will - if Daphne hasn't drunk them! Michael Broadbent, Vintage Wine
12 bottles per lot
Recently removed from an excellent cellar
Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1986
Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Levels into neck
Tasting note: First noted at the Union des Grands Crus tasting at Christie's in 1988. It showed well. Good depth of fruit, long but lean and taut. Four recent notes: trying to mature; fragrant but hard, crisp, citrus-like fruit, and tannic. Refreshing. Unready (1996). Still fairly intense; low-keyed, slightly peppery, just waking up; some sweetness, but with teeth-gripping tannins (tasted blind 1998). Most recently, a magnum, still very deep, thick (extract) but with a surprisingly mature, orange rim that I associate with tannins dominating the fruit (like some '75s). Very 'medicinal', iron, typically Lafite nose; more amenable than I expected, good mid-palate fruit but hard edged. Something like a '62 or a '66. Last noted at a combined children's birthday lunch party at home, Jan 1999 (****) I propose to leave my children Emma and Bartholomew two magnums each in my will - if Daphne hasn't drunk them! Michael Broadbent, Vintage Wine
12 bottles per lot
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