1 dozen bottles per lot
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1966 VINTAGE
"One of my favorite vintages, which I have always described as a 'lean, long-distance runner'. Growing conditions: early flowering, cool and fairly dry summer but a very hote, sunny, ripening September, with the harvest starting in good conditions on 6 October." MB, Vintage Wine
Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1966
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Levels: bottom neck or better, nicked capsules, one slightly protruding cork
"More recently, an excellent bottle I served at my Bordeaux Club dinner at Christie's in 1994: level into the neck, perfect cork pulled at 5:45pm, decanted an hour later and served at 8:15pm. Still deep and richly coloured; typical Haut-Brion scent of tobacco and iron, opening up deliciously, tea-like, very sweet, fullish body, lovely flavour, earthy tannic finish. Then a remarkably good double magnum at the Christie's 30th anniversary dinner: the grapes were being picked and the wine fermented at the time of the department's first auction." MB, October 2001.
1 dozen bottles per lot
"One of my favorite vintages, which I have always described as a 'lean, long-distance runner'. Growing conditions: early flowering, cool and fairly dry summer but a very hote, sunny, ripening September, with the harvest starting in good conditions on 6 October." MB, Vintage Wine
Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1966
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Levels: bottom neck or better, nicked capsules, one slightly protruding cork
"More recently, an excellent bottle I served at my Bordeaux Club dinner at Christie's in 1994: level into the neck, perfect cork pulled at 5:45pm, decanted an hour later and served at 8:15pm. Still deep and richly coloured; typical Haut-Brion scent of tobacco and iron, opening up deliciously, tea-like, very sweet, fullish body, lovely flavour, earthy tannic finish. Then a remarkably good double magnum at the Christie's 30th anniversary dinner: the grapes were being picked and the wine fermented at the time of the department's first auction." MB, October 2001.
1 dozen bottles per lot