2 bottles per lot
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Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Bin-soiled and damaged labels. Levels top-shoulder
First recorded in his Notes on Wine and Food in May 1949 lunching at Williams Standring, a long since expired "carriage trade" wine merchants: "An indifferent meal .... I like the Latour, the river smell but not offensive, no acidity, no tannin". The latter suprises me, nor have I never recognised his favourite expression "river smell". At the same lunch he consumed half a bottle of Fonseca 1927 "one of those very rare ports I enjoy almost as much as a fine claret, and someday I would like a bottle to myself" - which indicates that Jack Plumb was not merely an academic taster. M.B.
2 bottles per lot
Bin-soiled and damaged labels. Levels top-shoulder
First recorded in his Notes on Wine and Food in May 1949 lunching at Williams Standring, a long since expired "carriage trade" wine merchants: "An indifferent meal .... I like the Latour, the river smell but not offensive, no acidity, no tannin". The latter suprises me, nor have I never recognised his favourite expression "river smell". At the same lunch he consumed half a bottle of Fonseca 1927 "one of those very rare ports I enjoy almost as much as a fine claret, and someday I would like a bottle to myself" - which indicates that Jack Plumb was not merely an academic taster. M.B.
2 bottles per lot