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Default TN: Ch. Latour 1970 and Schloss Eltz Rauenthaler Baiken TBA 1976



"cwdjrxyz" wrote in message
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I bought 6 bottles of 1970 Ch. Petrus shortly after release, and it
has been stored properly. This is the first bottle I have opened,
because the fill is now in the very high shoulder in contrast to the
other bottles with fills in the low neck.
The wine is still very deep in color with little evidence of age
around the rim. It is quite full and perfectly balanced. The finish is
very long. It is a text book example of what top red Bordeaux is
about. It likely is the wine of the year for red Bordeaux. It might
improve for many more years if the corks hold. It perhaps does not
equal the best Latour of 1961 and 1945, but only in having a bit less
body and complexity than these two.
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>We also bought 1970 Latour in the early 70's and just had a bottle. We'd
>sure agree with everything you say. The ullage was negligible and the cork
>was in great shape. I've found that these old wines always taste better the
>next day. I decant into a decanter and we drink half a bottle on night
>one. The remaining wine in the decanter is covered with nitrogen, cling
>covered, and stored in the frig. Everything comes together better on day
>two, if you can imagine that.


I was just thinking, who would hold a wine 42 years? We still have a few
bottles of cheval blanc, mouton, and laffite from the same year.

Cheers,

Kent
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