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LATOUR OF THE SUPERB 1961 VINTAGE
Lying in Kemble, Gloucestershire (Octavian)
Château Latour--Vintage 1961
Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Slightly bin-soiled labels. Levels: four base of neck or better, three top, one just below top, three mid/upper and one mid-shoulder
In original straws and tissues, repacked from original wooden case
Tasting note: A mammoth wine, all the component parts excessively represented. Most recently, a superb bottle. **** (**) M.B. (Jan 2000) Tasting note: Immensely impressive, beautifully balanced but, not surprisingly, 'still severe' when first tasted in the autumn of 1968. Its great depth of colour, concentrated magnificence, richness and length noted throughout the 1970s - but slow to evolve. On two occasions in the 1980s, I gave it 6 stars, 4 for its impressiveness, 2 for future splendour. Of the eight recent notes, its depth of colour is the first thing one notices, and its nose, rather like a Lafite's, is a bit slow to open up. Surprisingly sweet too yet a very tannic finish (at Aschau in 1994). In 1997, a corky, woody bottle at a Saintsbury Club dinner. It was helped along by the cheese soufflé. At the La Réserve tasting, despite its extraordinary sweet, nose-filling bouquet, a mammoth wine, all the component parts excessively represented. Most recently, a superb bottle at Josh Latner's dinner. Last tasted Jan 2000 ****(**). Another half century of life. M.B.
See also lot 461.
12 bottles per lot
Lying in Kemble, Gloucestershire (Octavian)
Château Latour--Vintage 1961
Pauillac, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Slightly bin-soiled labels. Levels: four base of neck or better, three top, one just below top, three mid/upper and one mid-shoulder
In original straws and tissues, repacked from original wooden case
Tasting note: A mammoth wine, all the component parts excessively represented. Most recently, a superb bottle. **** (**) M.B. (Jan 2000) Tasting note: Immensely impressive, beautifully balanced but, not surprisingly, 'still severe' when first tasted in the autumn of 1968. Its great depth of colour, concentrated magnificence, richness and length noted throughout the 1970s - but slow to evolve. On two occasions in the 1980s, I gave it 6 stars, 4 for its impressiveness, 2 for future splendour. Of the eight recent notes, its depth of colour is the first thing one notices, and its nose, rather like a Lafite's, is a bit slow to open up. Surprisingly sweet too yet a very tannic finish (at Aschau in 1994). In 1997, a corky, woody bottle at a Saintsbury Club dinner. It was helped along by the cheese soufflé. At the La Réserve tasting, despite its extraordinary sweet, nose-filling bouquet, a mammoth wine, all the component parts excessively represented. Most recently, a superb bottle at Josh Latner's dinner. Last tasted Jan 2000 ****(**). Another half century of life. M.B.
See also lot 461.
12 bottles per lot
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