12 bottles per lot
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A SUPERB PRIVATE COLLECTION OF CLASSIC FIRST-GROWTH BORDEAUX, VINTAGES 1955 TO 1966
Recently removed from professional storage where the wines have lain undisturbed for many years and now lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD)
Château Latour--Vintage 1955
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Four capsules corroded. Levels: one base of neck, one top, seven upper, two mid and one mid/low-shoulder
Tasting Note: Very good wine, more complete and batter balanced than the '52 and '53. Totally different in style and weight to the Lafite. From the start a deep purple, tannic wine, packed with fruit. Not remotely precocious but needing bottle age, its bouquet and flavour evolving through the 1960s and 1970s. At the age of 40, coming into its own. Several subsequent notes, slight variations due, as always to provenance and condition, five since the mid-1990s, one of the best opened on New Year's Eve 1997 with my family. Always reassuring to pull a good long original cork. It was drinking perfectly, with a lovely old flavour, its tannin subdued. Another wonderful bottle at John Jenkins' Bordeaux Club dinner. Still very deep, surprisingly intense and youthful looking; a fully evolved bouquet, classic, cedary, fragrant and ageing a little, but faultless on the palate. A passable but fractionally acidic bottle at a pre-sale tasting in Los Angeles (1999) and an impressive but imperfect magnum with a gravy-like nose and peppery finish at Len Evans' dinner in the Hunter Valley, Australia. Lastly, deep, healthy colour; perfect nose, flavour, balance and length. Complete. Faultless. Last tasted dining at Jeffrey Benson's, Feb 2001 ***** Will go on, and on. M.B.
12 bottles per lot
Recently removed from professional storage where the wines have lain undisturbed for many years and now lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD)
Château Latour--Vintage 1955
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Four capsules corroded. Levels: one base of neck, one top, seven upper, two mid and one mid/low-shoulder
Tasting Note: Very good wine, more complete and batter balanced than the '52 and '53. Totally different in style and weight to the Lafite. From the start a deep purple, tannic wine, packed with fruit. Not remotely precocious but needing bottle age, its bouquet and flavour evolving through the 1960s and 1970s. At the age of 40, coming into its own. Several subsequent notes, slight variations due, as always to provenance and condition, five since the mid-1990s, one of the best opened on New Year's Eve 1997 with my family. Always reassuring to pull a good long original cork. It was drinking perfectly, with a lovely old flavour, its tannin subdued. Another wonderful bottle at John Jenkins' Bordeaux Club dinner. Still very deep, surprisingly intense and youthful looking; a fully evolved bouquet, classic, cedary, fragrant and ageing a little, but faultless on the palate. A passable but fractionally acidic bottle at a pre-sale tasting in Los Angeles (1999) and an impressive but imperfect magnum with a gravy-like nose and peppery finish at Len Evans' dinner in the Hunter Valley, Australia. Lastly, deep, healthy colour; perfect nose, flavour, balance and length. Complete. Faultless. Last tasted dining at Jeffrey Benson's, Feb 2001 ***** Will go on, and on. M.B.
12 bottles per lot
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