1 dozen bottles per lot
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Château Latour--Vintage 1966
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Lot 33 levels: five very top, two top and five upper/top shoulder. Lot 34 levels: two bottom neck, four very top and six upper/top shoulder
Both lots in original wooden cases
Two bottles and a magnum in the span of three months, late summer to early fall 2003: Amazing color knocking on maturity's door, deep garnet. For a wine two years older than myself it has fewer gray hairs poking out. It's seemingly immortal...perhaps the quintessential Latour. Very refined aromatics, tremendous complexity, evolved fruits, Latour's classic cedar note, spice, all in harmony. Time in glass really gets this wine to fully bloom. Better than the '64 recently tasted. Truly an experience for one's sight, sense and mind. Drinking superbly. From magnum: restrained, tight and linear in aroma and taste. All the power and balance but none of the sexy charm found in bottle. Sadly, I don't think one man's life will outlive this format! ST
1 dozen bottles per lot
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Lot 33 levels: five very top, two top and five upper/top shoulder. Lot 34 levels: two bottom neck, four very top and six upper/top shoulder
Both lots in original wooden cases
Two bottles and a magnum in the span of three months, late summer to early fall 2003: Amazing color knocking on maturity's door, deep garnet. For a wine two years older than myself it has fewer gray hairs poking out. It's seemingly immortal...perhaps the quintessential Latour. Very refined aromatics, tremendous complexity, evolved fruits, Latour's classic cedar note, spice, all in harmony. Time in glass really gets this wine to fully bloom. Better than the '64 recently tasted. Truly an experience for one's sight, sense and mind. Drinking superbly. From magnum: restrained, tight and linear in aroma and taste. All the power and balance but none of the sexy charm found in bottle. Sadly, I don't think one man's life will outlive this format! ST
1 dozen bottles per lot