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Lafite 1985
Pauillac, First Growth
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- GBP Price: £1100.00 per Btl
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- Size: Magnum (150cl)
- Quantities:0 Case - 5 Bottles
- Units: 5
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| Wine Advocate | Wine Spectator | Burghound | Jancis Robinson.com | International Wine Cellar |
| 87 | 90 | - | 18 | 90 |
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The 1985 Lafite is revealing more class and complexity than I predicted. A moderately intense, cedary, woody, herb and berry-scented bouquet is attractive. The wine is open-knit and ripe, with fine tannins, sweet, medium-bodied, mineral, and cassis-scented flavors, fine depth, and a graceful, harmonious feel. It is beginning to blossom and appears to possess more depth and character than I had thought. Score: 87 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate Maturity: 1995-2010 |
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A graceful wine with cedar, berry and cherry aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a succulent, sweet fruit finish. Score: 90 James Suckling, Wine Spectator |
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Slightly watery rim, but the core hue looks very youthful. Light tealeaf aroma. Quite charming. Delicate. Broad. No rough edges. This was a wine I could not resist swallowing, even mid-morning on a Saturday. A wine with a beginning, a middle and an end, and great balance. Score: 18 Jancis Robinson MW, Jancisrobinson.com Maturity: 2002-2012 |
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Medium red. Rather unforthcoming nose hints at redcurrant and cedar, along with a faint herbaceousness. Strong in extract and high in acidity, but today the wine flesh and fruit are dominated by its structure and grip. A marginally disappointing showing for Lafite, in which herbaceous hints and lack of flesh give the wine a slightly disjointed character. I would like to have found greater mid-palate verve. Drink now through 2012. Score: 90 Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar Maturity: 2002-2012 |
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The 1985 Lafite should be better, but for followers of fashion, its star-studded price will fetch you a moderately intense, cedary, woody, herb-and-leather-scented bouquet, and attractive, very forward and developed flavors displayed in a medium-bodied format. The finish is softly tannic and after a pensive sip, one is likely to ask, Is this all there is? Score: 87 Robert Parker, 'Bordeaux' 3rd Ed. Maturity: 1991-2008 |
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