12 bottles per lot
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A MAGNIFICENT PRIVATE COLLECTION OF FINE BORDEAUX, INCLUDING EXAMPLES FROM THE GREATEST VINTAGES OF THE 1980s
The following lots (120 to 154) have had only one owner since purchase En Primeur. All were shipped directly to the U.K. on release from the chateaux. They have been aged in professional storage, or held in the owner's underground cellarage (with no significant temperature variation) in East Anglia, until removal for this sale
Offered in original wooden cases
Château Léoville-Las-Cases--Vintage 1982
Saint-Julien, 2me cru classé
Tasting Note: A rare opportunity, for me at any rate, to taste from the vat the autumn of the vintage. Astonishing that anything so powerful can simmer down into something drinkable. In fact it was slow to evolve. With nine notes made over the past decade it has been interesting to observe its progress at tastings and dinners. Even in the mid-1990s I thought that it was still unready and very tannic. At Kaplan's tasting in 1997 its bouquet was surprisingly forthcoming, rich, no harsh edges; its texture was good, also its length. But still a fairly lean, tannic finish. Most recently, still impressively deep with rich 'legs'; fairly concentrated, top quality, 'delicious but' (for the tannin). Lat noted at the '82s and '98s tasting in Hamburg, March 2000 ***(*), hopefully **** in time. M.B.
12 bottles per lot
The following lots (120 to 154) have had only one owner since purchase En Primeur. All were shipped directly to the U.K. on release from the chateaux. They have been aged in professional storage, or held in the owner's underground cellarage (with no significant temperature variation) in East Anglia, until removal for this sale
Offered in original wooden cases
Château Léoville-Las-Cases--Vintage 1982
Saint-Julien, 2me cru classé
Tasting Note: A rare opportunity, for me at any rate, to taste from the vat the autumn of the vintage. Astonishing that anything so powerful can simmer down into something drinkable. In fact it was slow to evolve. With nine notes made over the past decade it has been interesting to observe its progress at tastings and dinners. Even in the mid-1990s I thought that it was still unready and very tannic. At Kaplan's tasting in 1997 its bouquet was surprisingly forthcoming, rich, no harsh edges; its texture was good, also its length. But still a fairly lean, tannic finish. Most recently, still impressively deep with rich 'legs'; fairly concentrated, top quality, 'delicious but' (for the tannin). Lat noted at the '82s and '98s tasting in Hamburg, March 2000 ***(*), hopefully **** in time. M.B.
12 bottles per lot
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