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The January 2012 Internet-Only Auction Part 2
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Lot 875
Estimate: $380
One top shoulder, one very high shoulder missing label with cut capsule revealing chateaus's vintage branded cork, two mid shoulder, two low shoulder. All capsules corroded. All labels torn, bin soiled, severely damaged.
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"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.”
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"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.”
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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.
Chateau Cos d'Estournel is a Second Growth estate in Saint-Estephe, Bordeaux, recognizable for its pagoda-topped chai and celebrated for exotic, opulent yet powerfully structured Cabernet-based wines.