5 bottles per lot
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RARE LAFLEUR FROM THE FAMED 1979 VINTAGE
Lying in Twickenham, Middlesex (EHD)
Château Lafleur--Vintage 1979
Pomerol
Glue-stained labels. Levels into neck
Tasting note: In the early nineties I began to think that the 1979 Lafleur would be the "wine of the vintage," particularly for serious collectors who judge a wine's quality by not only its potential for longevity, but by its extraction of flavour and complexity. This wine, so atypical for the vintage, is phenomenally concentrated and thick, as well as massively full-bodied and tannic. It is a different style of Lafleur than what emanated from this château in the early and mid-eighties. The 1979 is backward, with a reticent but promising bouquet of minerals, damp earth (truffles?), and super-sweet, rich black-berries and plums. One has to taste it to believe that in this vintage such awesome flavour, body, and lavish quantities of glycerin could be obtained. It remains the only great, potentially legendary wine from this vintage. Do not touch a bottle before the end of the decade. It should age effortlessly through the first three decades of the next millennium.
5 bottles per lot
Lying in Twickenham, Middlesex (EHD)
Château Lafleur--Vintage 1979
Pomerol
Glue-stained labels. Levels into neck
Tasting note: In the early nineties I began to think that the 1979 Lafleur would be the "wine of the vintage," particularly for serious collectors who judge a wine's quality by not only its potential for longevity, but by its extraction of flavour and complexity. This wine, so atypical for the vintage, is phenomenally concentrated and thick, as well as massively full-bodied and tannic. It is a different style of Lafleur than what emanated from this château in the early and mid-eighties. The 1979 is backward, with a reticent but promising bouquet of minerals, damp earth (truffles?), and super-sweet, rich black-berries and plums. One has to taste it to believe that in this vintage such awesome flavour, body, and lavish quantities of glycerin could be obtained. It remains the only great, potentially legendary wine from this vintage. Do not touch a bottle before the end of the decade. It should age effortlessly through the first three decades of the next millennium.
5 bottles per lot
Special notice
VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.