3 bottles per lot
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Château Palmer--Vintage 1959
Cantenac (Margaux), 3me cru classé. Château-bottled
One slightly bin-soiled label otherwise excellent appearance. Levels into neck. Not in original wooden case
Tasting Note: Also very popular, and not just because of its English name, bottled extensively by merchants. A superb, ripe, fleshy, spicy well-muscled magnum in 1989; alas, in 1994, a corked bottle which, in any case, would have been thrashed by the '61. Most recently, medium deep, fully mature; classic, cedary bouquet; superb sweetness and ripeness, lovely flavour, gloriously rich and harmonious. Last noted at the Farr Vintners/Mähler-Besse dinner at Ransome's Dock, Feb 2001 **** M.B.
3 bottles per lot
Cantenac (Margaux), 3me cru classé. Château-bottled
One slightly bin-soiled label otherwise excellent appearance. Levels into neck. Not in original wooden case
Tasting Note: Also very popular, and not just because of its English name, bottled extensively by merchants. A superb, ripe, fleshy, spicy well-muscled magnum in 1989; alas, in 1994, a corked bottle which, in any case, would have been thrashed by the '61. Most recently, medium deep, fully mature; classic, cedary bouquet; superb sweetness and ripeness, lovely flavour, gloriously rich and harmonious. Last noted at the Farr Vintners/Mähler-Besse dinner at Ransome's Dock, Feb 2001 **** M.B.
3 bottles per lot