5 bottles per lot
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Château Palmer--Vintage 1966
Cantenac (Margaux), 3me cru classé
Levels: four top and one upper shoulder; one loose label, one nicked label
"Exceptionally good, not quite the '61 but superbly balanced. Thanks partly to my longstanding friendship with the much-missed Peter Sichel, many notes, in fact exactly 22. All good including excellent Army & Navy Stores, Berry Bros and Quellyn Roberts (of Chester). Several recently including an interesting pair at a dinner hosted by Jim Hood in Bristol, one château-bottled, the other by The Wine Society. They differed, the latter looking more mature, its nose taking ages to open up. It was sweet, rich, straightforward and tannic. I actually preferred The Wine Society bottling, finding the bouqet more attractive and spicy; a fraction too sweet but a very interesting flavour, lovely, stylish. A very good bottle noted at a pre-sale tasting in New York (1999) and, best of the lot, the fourth and oldest vintage of Palmer served by Michael Le Marchant: it was fully mature-looking with slight orange tinge; a fabulous - no other word - bouquet; sweet, lovely flavour, balance and finish. Last noted at the Le Marchants', Aug 1998 *****" MB, Vintage Wine
5 bottles per lot
Cantenac (Margaux), 3me cru classé
Levels: four top and one upper shoulder; one loose label, one nicked label
"Exceptionally good, not quite the '61 but superbly balanced. Thanks partly to my longstanding friendship with the much-missed Peter Sichel, many notes, in fact exactly 22. All good including excellent Army & Navy Stores, Berry Bros and Quellyn Roberts (of Chester). Several recently including an interesting pair at a dinner hosted by Jim Hood in Bristol, one château-bottled, the other by The Wine Society. They differed, the latter looking more mature, its nose taking ages to open up. It was sweet, rich, straightforward and tannic. I actually preferred The Wine Society bottling, finding the bouqet more attractive and spicy; a fraction too sweet but a very interesting flavour, lovely, stylish. A very good bottle noted at a pre-sale tasting in New York (1999) and, best of the lot, the fourth and oldest vintage of Palmer served by Michael Le Marchant: it was fully mature-looking with slight orange tinge; a fabulous - no other word - bouquet; sweet, lovely flavour, balance and finish. Last noted at the Le Marchants', Aug 1998 *****" MB, Vintage Wine
5 bottles per lot