12 bottles per lot
细节
A PRIVATE STOCK OF THE GREAT LATOUR 1970
Lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD)
Offered in original wooden cases
Château Latour--Vintage 1970
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
In original tissues. Lots 74 and 75: very good appearance. Levels base of neck or better. Lot 76 very good appearance. One corroded capsule. Levels: eleven base of neck or better and one top-shoulder
"An immensely impressive wine, and 30 notes which seem hardly to vary from tasting in cask as early as January 1971, and again in April 1972. Even making allowances for its understandably tannic grip, it refuses to budge. Tasted and drunk - more like chewed - in every conceivable circumstance. Like 'the Lion King' it visibly proclaims its power and importance. More recently, one can just detect a touch of maturity; its nose is almost impossible to describe because, unlike the Lion King, it hardly shows its head above the parapet. It needs days of decanting time and hours in the glass. Mouth filling, concentrated, still very tannic. At the Rodenstock blind tasting of great wines, as with Lafite, I preferred the 1870 - it was so much more drinkable. Perhaps one of the most bizarre combinations was its accompanying 'Sorgham molasses - roasted elk with sweet potatoes and huckleberry sauce', at Hal Lewis's Installation dinner, a Bacchus Society annual binge, in Memphis, Tennessee (September 1999). In 2003 though still fairly deep, mature; good nose; drinking well. Most recently: classic, 'old cedar' bouquet; touch of sweetness, rich, full-bodied, harmonious, masked tannin, dry finish. Many more years in hand." Last tasted March 2005 ***** Now - 2040.. M.B.
12 bottles per lot
Lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD)
Offered in original wooden cases
Château Latour--Vintage 1970
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
In original tissues. Lots 74 and 75: very good appearance. Levels base of neck or better. Lot 76 very good appearance. One corroded capsule. Levels: eleven base of neck or better and one top-shoulder
"An immensely impressive wine, and 30 notes which seem hardly to vary from tasting in cask as early as January 1971, and again in April 1972. Even making allowances for its understandably tannic grip, it refuses to budge. Tasted and drunk - more like chewed - in every conceivable circumstance. Like 'the Lion King' it visibly proclaims its power and importance. More recently, one can just detect a touch of maturity; its nose is almost impossible to describe because, unlike the Lion King, it hardly shows its head above the parapet. It needs days of decanting time and hours in the glass. Mouth filling, concentrated, still very tannic. At the Rodenstock blind tasting of great wines, as with Lafite, I preferred the 1870 - it was so much more drinkable. Perhaps one of the most bizarre combinations was its accompanying 'Sorgham molasses - roasted elk with sweet potatoes and huckleberry sauce', at Hal Lewis's Installation dinner, a Bacchus Society annual binge, in Memphis, Tennessee (September 1999). In 2003 though still fairly deep, mature; good nose; drinking well. Most recently: classic, 'old cedar' bouquet; touch of sweetness, rich, full-bodied, harmonious, masked tannin, dry finish. Many more years in hand." Last tasted March 2005 ***** Now - 2040.. M.B.
12 bottles per lot
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