6 magnums per lot
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1959 VINTAGE
*****
A great vintage. Hugely popular with the British wine trade, proclaimed by the pundits as 'the vintage of the century' and très grands vins by the Bordelais, the optimists were not far out despite some talk of lack of acidity. Apropos, the eminet Professor Peynaud states that if a wine has an abundance of all the major component parts, alcohol, extract, fruit and tannins, an equally high level of acidity is not only not essential, it is not necessary. The 1959 vintage was blessed with a very favourable growing season, in particular a fine, warm summer, with rain mid-September to swell the grapes; the harvest followed a week or so later. MB, Vintage Wine
Château Cos d'Estournel--Vintage 1959
Saint-Estèphe, 2ème cru classé
Levels: three bottom neck, three very top shoulder; five signs of old seepage, four wrinkled and one lightly torn labels
6 magnums per lot
*****
A great vintage. Hugely popular with the British wine trade, proclaimed by the pundits as 'the vintage of the century' and très grands vins by the Bordelais, the optimists were not far out despite some talk of lack of acidity. Apropos, the eminet Professor Peynaud states that if a wine has an abundance of all the major component parts, alcohol, extract, fruit and tannins, an equally high level of acidity is not only not essential, it is not necessary. The 1959 vintage was blessed with a very favourable growing season, in particular a fine, warm summer, with rain mid-September to swell the grapes; the harvest followed a week or so later. MB, Vintage Wine
Château Cos d'Estournel--Vintage 1959
Saint-Estèphe, 2ème cru classé
Levels: three bottom neck, three very top shoulder; five signs of old seepage, four wrinkled and one lightly torn labels
6 magnums per lot