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***** MB.
"From the start a splendid wine, the start being February after the vintage, so it was probably de Luze jumping the gun again. Ten consistently good notes . . . . I see that I gave it [a bottle tasted in 1998] a lot of air, drawing the cork at 4pm, decanting at 6pm and pouring at 8:20pm. It was really worth it for the bouquet was wonderfully fragrant, cedary, tea-like; sweet delicious, easy and charming yet with a sustaining core. Last tasted a fortnight later at my ‘Réserve Tasting of Premier Bordeaux Wine’ in Palm Beach. It was extremely good: mellow for a ’66, lovely fruit, delicious. Claret at its best. Last tasted Feb 1998.” Michael Broadbent, Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine: Fifty Years of Tasting Over Three Centuries of Wine, 2006 |