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Lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD)
Château Latour--Vintage 1929
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Château and vintage embossed metal capsules, corroded, two damaged. Dutch import slip labels. Badly stained and bin-soiled labels, badly damaged labels, one remains only. Levels: two upper, one low-shoulder
Tasting Note: Softer and more amenable than the' 28. Sixteen notes, almost all 5-stars, dating from December 1955. (I had moved that autumn from Saccone & Speed to Harvey's of Bristol, and was based in London.) Always deeply coloured, it's bouquet variously described - mainly inadequately - as rich but restrained old cedar, spicy (eucalyptus once again, cloves and sage), 'medicinal' Pauillac, and so forth. On the palate generally sweet, soft and luscious for Latour - a complete contrast to the monumental and tannic '28 - velvety, elongated. More recently a perfect magnum in a 'flight' of Latours. Last noted Dec 1995 ***** M.B.
3 bottles per lot
Lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD)
Château Latour--Vintage 1929
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Château and vintage embossed metal capsules, corroded, two damaged. Dutch import slip labels. Badly stained and bin-soiled labels, badly damaged labels, one remains only. Levels: two upper, one low-shoulder
Tasting Note: Softer and more amenable than the' 28. Sixteen notes, almost all 5-stars, dating from December 1955. (I had moved that autumn from Saccone & Speed to Harvey's of Bristol, and was based in London.) Always deeply coloured, it's bouquet variously described - mainly inadequately - as rich but restrained old cedar, spicy (eucalyptus once again, cloves and sage), 'medicinal' Pauillac, and so forth. On the palate generally sweet, soft and luscious for Latour - a complete contrast to the monumental and tannic '28 - velvety, elongated. More recently a perfect magnum in a 'flight' of Latours. Last noted Dec 1995 ***** M.B.
3 bottles per lot
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