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Lot 115
Estimate: $6,000
IOWC. "Cette bouteille provient du caveau de Château Latour. Elle a quitté la propriété en juillet 2003."
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"If you see any collector with this wine in his cellar, or in an auction catalogue, it might well have come from Hinton Admiral, the Meyrick estate in Hampshire, for, of the 30 dozen 'Claridge Claret No 1 Chat Latour 1881' costing 100 shillings (£,5) a dozen and 'packed May 1894,' 27 dozen remained in the original bins, untouched. An exceptionally hard, tannic wine . . . . more than deep, positively opaque; dry, a huge wine with a pungent, tannic finish. Reminded me of some 1948s. Eleven years later I tasted one from the Château at Kerry Payne's Latour tasting: a faultless old bouquet; 'a big dry wine through still tannic.'
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"If you see any collector with this wine in his cellar, or in an auction catalogue, it might well have come from Hinton Admiral, the Meyrick estate in Hampshire, for, of the 30 dozen 'Claridge Claret No 1 Chat Latour 1881' costing 100 shillings (£,5) a dozen and 'packed May 1894,' 27 dozen remained in the original bins, untouched. An exceptionally hard, tannic wine . . . . more than deep, positively opaque; dry, a huge wine with a pungent, tannic finish. Reminded me of some 1948s. Eleven years later I tasted one from the Château at Kerry Payne's Latour tasting: a faultless old bouquet; 'a big dry wine through still tannic.'
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
The world's largest fine-wine region, built around blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Divided by the Gironde estuary into the structured Left Bank and the plush, Merlot-led Right Bank, it is the historic benchmark for age-worthy claret and sweet Sauternes.
Home to three of Bordeaux's five First Growths, Pauillac is the Left Bank benchmark for powerful, structured Cabernet Sauvignon. Its wines are famed for cassis, cedar and graphite notes and exceptional aging potential.
Chateau Latour is a First Growth estate in Pauillac, Bordeaux, renowned for powerful, dense and extraordinarily long-lived Cabernet-dominated wines, especially its Grand Vin from the historic l'Enclos vineyard.
An aromatic red grape lending perfume, red fruit and a leafy, savory edge. It thrives in the Loire and as a key blending partner in Bordeaux, especially Saint-Emilion.
The world's most planted premium red grape, yielding deeply colored, tannic and structured wines with cassis, cedar and graphite notes. Firm tannins and acidity make it exceptionally age-worthy, whether as a varietal or the backbone of a Bordeaux blend.
Produces plush, supple, fruit-forward reds with plum and chocolate notes. Softer and earlier-maturing than Cabernet, it adds flesh and roundness to blends and stars in Right Bank Bordeaux.
A deeply colored, tannic Bordeaux blending grape adding color, structure and floral, spicy complexity in small proportions.
