10 bottles per lot
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Château Cos-d'Estournel--Vintage 1966
Saint-Estèphe, 2me cru classé
Levels: top shoulder; wrinkled labels
"From the start a splendid wine, the start being in February after the vintage, so it was probably de Luze jumping the gun again. Ten consistently good notes through the 1970s and 1980s, hitting a high (5-star) spot in 1990. Since then just a couple of notes. A bottle recorked in 1988, bought at one of Christie's auctions in 1996 and served at my Bordeaux Club dinner in 1998. I see that I gave it a lot of air, drawing the cork at 4pm, decanting at 6pm and pouring at 8:20pm. It was really worht it for the bouquet was wonderfully fragrant, cedary, tea-like; sweet, delicious, easy and charming yet with a sustaining core. Last tasted a fortnight later at my 'Réserve Tasting of Premier Bordeaux Wine' in Palm Beach. It was extremely good: mellow for a '66, lovely fruit, delicious. Claret at its best. LAst tasted February 1998. ****" MB, Vintage Wine
10 bottles per lot
Saint-Estèphe, 2me cru classé
Levels: top shoulder; wrinkled labels
"From the start a splendid wine, the start being in February after the vintage, so it was probably de Luze jumping the gun again. Ten consistently good notes through the 1970s and 1980s, hitting a high (5-star) spot in 1990. Since then just a couple of notes. A bottle recorked in 1988, bought at one of Christie's auctions in 1996 and served at my Bordeaux Club dinner in 1998. I see that I gave it a lot of air, drawing the cork at 4pm, decanting at 6pm and pouring at 8:20pm. It was really worht it for the bouquet was wonderfully fragrant, cedary, tea-like; sweet, delicious, easy and charming yet with a sustaining core. Last tasted a fortnight later at my 'Réserve Tasting of Premier Bordeaux Wine' in Palm Beach. It was extremely good: mellow for a '66, lovely fruit, delicious. Claret at its best. LAst tasted February 1998. ****" MB, Vintage Wine
10 bottles per lot