9 bottles per lot
Details
Château Latour
1921
Corroded and slightly damaged capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly bin-soiled and nicked label. Level: upper-shoulder (1)
1922
Corroded and slightly damaged capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly bin-soiled and damaged label. Level: low-shoulder (1)
1923
Reconditioned in 1990. Slightly depressed cork. Slightly bin-soiled label. Level: base of neck (1)
1924
Corroded capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly bin-soiled Nicolas stamped label. Level: upper-shoulder (1)
1925
Reconditioned in 1995. Corroded and slightly damaged capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Excellent appearance. Level: mid/low-shoulder (1)
1926
Corroded and slightly damaged capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly bin-soiled label. Level: mid/upper-shoulder (1)
1927
Corroded capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Excellent appearance. Believed new label. Typewriter print vintage. Level: mid/upper-shoulder (1)
1928
Corroded capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Badly bin-soiled label. Level: top-shoulder (1)
1929
Corroded capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly damaged label. Level: top-shoulder (1)
Tasting note for the 1928 vintage:
I am putting this first for it was and still is the star of the vintage. Like the 1870 Lafite, so dense, powerful and bitterly tannic that it was a full half century before it was mellow enough to be enjoyed. I have been privileged to taste this wine on 16 occasions following its progress from ‘enormous, too full of tannin ’in 1953. Very austere, yet tannin cloaked and velvet and opening up in the 1970s. I considered it at its peak in the 1980s; intensely deep; spicy, cinnamon, cedary bouquet; surprisingly sweet and velvety despite its tannin, masculine, with great concentration and length. But on it goes. Four impressive bottles, fabulous bouquets but stil very tannic, even harsh. An oxidised bottle then an impressive bottle, fragrant, drinking perfectly. Last tasted January 2000. ***** Michael Broadbent MW
9 bottles per lot
1921
Corroded and slightly damaged capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly bin-soiled and nicked label. Level: upper-shoulder (1)
1922
Corroded and slightly damaged capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly bin-soiled and damaged label. Level: low-shoulder (1)
1923
Reconditioned in 1990. Slightly depressed cork. Slightly bin-soiled label. Level: base of neck (1)
1924
Corroded capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly bin-soiled Nicolas stamped label. Level: upper-shoulder (1)
1925
Reconditioned in 1995. Corroded and slightly damaged capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Excellent appearance. Level: mid/low-shoulder (1)
1926
Corroded and slightly damaged capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly bin-soiled label. Level: mid/upper-shoulder (1)
1927
Corroded capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Excellent appearance. Believed new label. Typewriter print vintage. Level: mid/upper-shoulder (1)
1928
Corroded capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Badly bin-soiled label. Level: top-shoulder (1)
1929
Corroded capsule. Vintage branded capsule. Slightly damaged label. Level: top-shoulder (1)
Tasting note for the 1928 vintage:
I am putting this first for it was and still is the star of the vintage. Like the 1870 Lafite, so dense, powerful and bitterly tannic that it was a full half century before it was mellow enough to be enjoyed. I have been privileged to taste this wine on 16 occasions following its progress from ‘enormous, too full of tannin ’in 1953. Very austere, yet tannin cloaked and velvet and opening up in the 1970s. I considered it at its peak in the 1980s; intensely deep; spicy, cinnamon, cedary bouquet; surprisingly sweet and velvety despite its tannin, masculine, with great concentration and length. But on it goes. Four impressive bottles, fabulous bouquets but stil very tannic, even harsh. An oxidised bottle then an impressive bottle, fragrant, drinking perfectly. Last tasted January 2000. ***** Michael Broadbent MW
9 bottles per lot
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