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1997 Château Mouton Rothschild - Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé

1997 Château Mouton Rothschild - Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé

The wine is very dark cherry red in the glass, nicely concentrated with fat colored legs.1997 is supposed to be one of the lesser vintages for Mouton or even Bordeaux in general,but surprisingly there’s a very concentrated perfume ris...

1965 Château Latour - Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé

1965 Château Latour - Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classé

If you’re even remotely interested in older Clarets you’ll probably know 1965 is legendary…unfortunately, in a bad way : it has a reputation
for being an atrocious vintage. You can read everywhere the weather conditions were terrible resulting ...