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Château Latour--Vintage 1961
Pauillac, 1er cru classé.
Levels of three top-shoulder, one high-shoulder in the second lot
"Not surprisingly, immensely deep, opaque-centered when young but, though still retaining considerable depth of colour, now less intense, with a lovely mature rim. Its nose dumb, rather severe in the late 1960s, has of course developed, but even after two decades appeared to be closed up and low-keyed, though it develops a gingery, cedary, fig-like fragance with air. A huge packed fleshy, austere but magnificent wine, due to its high alcohol and tannins. Almost chewable. I have tasted more Latour than any other '61, some 30 or so notes, and believe that, like the '28, it will need a full half-century to come round." JMB
4 bottles per lot
Pauillac, 1er cru classé.
Levels of three top-shoulder, one high-shoulder in the second lot
"Not surprisingly, immensely deep, opaque-centered when young but, though still retaining considerable depth of colour, now less intense, with a lovely mature rim. Its nose dumb, rather severe in the late 1960s, has of course developed, but even after two decades appeared to be closed up and low-keyed, though it develops a gingery, cedary, fig-like fragance with air. A huge packed fleshy, austere but magnificent wine, due to its high alcohol and tannins. Almost chewable. I have tasted more Latour than any other '61, some 30 or so notes, and believe that, like the '28, it will need a full half-century to come round." JMB
4 bottles per lot