12 bottles per lot
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AN EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION OF FINE CLARET, INCLUDING LAFITE AND MOUTON 1986
Lying in Kemble, Gloucestershire (Octavian)
Lots 197, 201, 211 and 214 are offered duty-paid, but available in bond
Offered in original wooden cases
Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1986
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Tasting Note: First noted at the Union des Grands Crus tasting at Christie's in 1988. It showed well. Good depth of fruit, long, but lean and taut. Four recent notes: trying to mature; fragrant but hard; crisp, citrus-like fruit, and tannic. Refreshing. Unready (1996). Still fairly intense; low-keyed, slightly peppery, juts waking up; some sweetness, but with teeth-gripping tannins (tasted blind 1998). Most recently, a magnum, still very deep, thick (extract) but with a surprisingly mature orange rim that I associate with tannins dominating the fruit (like some '75s). Very 'medicinal', iron, typically Lafite nose; more amenable than I expected, good mid-palate fruit but hard edged. Something like a '62 or '66. Last noted at a combined children's birthday lunch party at home, Jan 1999 (****) I propose to leave my children Emma and Bartholomew two magnums each in my will - if Daphne hasn't drunk them! M.B.
12 bottles per lot
Lying in Kemble, Gloucestershire (Octavian)
Lots 197, 201, 211 and 214 are offered duty-paid, but available in bond
Offered in original wooden cases
Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1986
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Tasting Note: First noted at the Union des Grands Crus tasting at Christie's in 1988. It showed well. Good depth of fruit, long, but lean and taut. Four recent notes: trying to mature; fragrant but hard; crisp, citrus-like fruit, and tannic. Refreshing. Unready (1996). Still fairly intense; low-keyed, slightly peppery, juts waking up; some sweetness, but with teeth-gripping tannins (tasted blind 1998). Most recently, a magnum, still very deep, thick (extract) but with a surprisingly mature orange rim that I associate with tannins dominating the fruit (like some '75s). Very 'medicinal', iron, typically Lafite nose; more amenable than I expected, good mid-palate fruit but hard edged. Something like a '62 or '66. Last noted at a combined children's birthday lunch party at home, Jan 1999 (****) I propose to leave my children Emma and Bartholomew two magnums each in my will - if Daphne hasn't drunk them! M.B.
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.
Sale room notice
This lot is duty-paid, no vat, lying in Kemble, Gloucestershire (Octavian)