12 bottles per lot
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Lying in London E.16
Offered duty-paid, but available in bond
La Mondotte--Vintage 1996
Saint-Emilion
Tasting Note: An amazing wine, the 1996 La Mondotte (approximately 800 cases made from a 30-year old parcel of 100 Merlot planted on a hillside between Le Tertre-Rôteboeuf and Canon La Gaffelière) is a super-star. If readers cannot get excited by tasting the 1996, they should change beverages. It is amazing for both its appellation and the vintage, revealing a remarkable level of richness, profound concentration, and integrated tannin. The thick purple colour suggests a wine of extraordinary extract and richness. This super-concentrated wine offers a spectacular nose of roasted coffee, liquorice, blueberries, and blackcurrants intermixed with smoky new oak. It possesses full body, a multidimensional, layered personality with extraordinary depth of fruit, a seamless texture, amazing viscosity, and a long, 45-second finish. The tannin is sweet and well-integrated. This blockbuster St.-Emilion should be at its best between 2006-2025. A dry, vintage port Fonseca! For its immense size, this wine is neither heavy nor over-done. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate 122, (April 1999)
12 bottles per lot
Offered duty-paid, but available in bond
La Mondotte--Vintage 1996
Saint-Emilion
Tasting Note: An amazing wine, the 1996 La Mondotte (approximately 800 cases made from a 30-year old parcel of 100 Merlot planted on a hillside between Le Tertre-Rôteboeuf and Canon La Gaffelière) is a super-star. If readers cannot get excited by tasting the 1996, they should change beverages. It is amazing for both its appellation and the vintage, revealing a remarkable level of richness, profound concentration, and integrated tannin. The thick purple colour suggests a wine of extraordinary extract and richness. This super-concentrated wine offers a spectacular nose of roasted coffee, liquorice, blueberries, and blackcurrants intermixed with smoky new oak. It possesses full body, a multidimensional, layered personality with extraordinary depth of fruit, a seamless texture, amazing viscosity, and a long, 45-second finish. The tannin is sweet and well-integrated. This blockbuster St.-Emilion should be at its best between 2006-2025. A dry, vintage port Fonseca! For its immense size, this wine is neither heavy nor over-done. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate 122, (April 1999)
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.