12 bottles per lot
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1978 Vintage Report: Almost the mirror image of 1976. Appalling growing season. At the end of August Châteaux owners were in despair. Complete disaster loomed. Then, suddenly, the weather improved with a September blessed with cloudless skies and unbroken ripening sunshine through to the start of the harvest just after the first week in October. It was, in the many times repeated words of Harry Waugh, 'the year of the miracle'. M.B.
Château Latour--Vintage 1978
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Tasting note: Latour 1978: One of the great wines of the vintage, the 1978 Latour has reached full maturity. While it does not possess the extraordinary concentration of the massive 1970, or the power of the 1975, the 1978 offers a stunningly fragrant nose of roasted herbs, sweet, jammy black fruits, nuts, and minerals. There is almost an iron taste, as if it were a vitamin supplement. The wine is medium to full-bodied, with fat, rich, concentrated flavors of black fruits, earth, and smoke. Although it has been delicious for some time, this wine reveals no signs of weakening. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted 1/97. 94 Points: Robert Parker; Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition (1998)
12 bottles per lot
Château Latour--Vintage 1978
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Tasting note: Latour 1978: One of the great wines of the vintage, the 1978 Latour has reached full maturity. While it does not possess the extraordinary concentration of the massive 1970, or the power of the 1975, the 1978 offers a stunningly fragrant nose of roasted herbs, sweet, jammy black fruits, nuts, and minerals. There is almost an iron taste, as if it were a vitamin supplement. The wine is medium to full-bodied, with fat, rich, concentrated flavors of black fruits, earth, and smoke. Although it has been delicious for some time, this wine reveals no signs of weakening. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted 1/97. 94 Points: Robert Parker; Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition (1998)
12 bottles per lot
Special notice
Offered duty paid, but available in bond. VAT at 17.5% will be charged on the hammer price on removal of the lot from bond.