10 bottles per lot
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Château Haut-Brion--Vintage 1966
Pessac-Léognan, 1er cru classé
Levels: four 2.5cm, five 3cm, one 3.5cm; slight signs of old seepage, lightly corroded capsules, two wine stained labels
"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.
10 bottles per lot
Pessac-Léognan, 1er cru classé
Levels: four 2.5cm, five 3cm, one 3.5cm; slight signs of old seepage, lightly corroded capsules, two wine stained labels
"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.
10 bottles per lot