1 double-magnum per lot
Details
Château Lafleur--Vintage 1995
Pomerol. Château-bottled
Not in original wooden case. Damaged wax capsule. Lightly bin-soiled label
Tasting note: This is an awesome Lafleur, but it is also an amazingly backward, tannic monster that will need more cellaring than any Médoc in this vintage. The wine boasts an opaque black/purple color, as well as a closed but promising nose that represents the essence of blackberry, raspberry, and cherry fruit. Intertwined with those aromas is the tell-tale mineral terroir of Lafleur, full body, blistering dry, astringent tannin, and a layered, weighty feel on the palate. This is the kind of young claret that I couldn't wait to rush out and buy two decades ago, but now I have to be content to admire it and wish I were twenty years younger. It is formidable, prodigious, and oh, so promising, but I cannot see it being ready to drink before the end of the second decade of the next century! Anticipated maturity: 2020-2050. 93 points. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #115, February 1998
1 double-magnum per lot
Pomerol. Château-bottled
Not in original wooden case. Damaged wax capsule. Lightly bin-soiled label
Tasting note: This is an awesome Lafleur, but it is also an amazingly backward, tannic monster that will need more cellaring than any Médoc in this vintage. The wine boasts an opaque black/purple color, as well as a closed but promising nose that represents the essence of blackberry, raspberry, and cherry fruit. Intertwined with those aromas is the tell-tale mineral terroir of Lafleur, full body, blistering dry, astringent tannin, and a layered, weighty feel on the palate. This is the kind of young claret that I couldn't wait to rush out and buy two decades ago, but now I have to be content to admire it and wish I were twenty years younger. It is formidable, prodigious, and oh, so promising, but I cannot see it being ready to drink before the end of the second decade of the next century! Anticipated maturity: 2020-2050. 93 points. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #115, February 1998
1 double-magnum per lot
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