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Lot 16

Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1891

Closed9 June 2011

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Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1891
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Slightly damaged capsule. Recently re-corked, believed in 1980's. Bin-soiled label. Level upper-shoulder
Tasting note: First tasted in 1976, a bottle recorked in 1957. It had an elegant, cedary, tea-like bouquet. Attractive. Later from the same Rothschild cellar in Paris, a fruity, honeyed strawberry-scented bottle,; sweet, fuller bodied. Last noted at Lloyd Flatt's Lafite tasting Oct 1988 *** M.B.
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