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La Tâche Grand Cru--Vintage 1966
12 bottles per lot
A SUPERB PRIVATE STOCK OF LA TACHE 1966 Lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD) Offered duty-paid, but available in bond La Tâche Grand Cru--Vintage 1966 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Lot 178 slightly bin-soiled labels. Bottle numbers 18311, 18358 and 18449. Levels: one 4.5 and two 5cms below base of capsules. Lot 179 one capsule slightly damaged. Slightly bin-soiled. Consecutive bottle numbers: 181411 to 181422. Levels: three 3, one 3.5, six 4 and two 5cms below base of capsules. Lot 180 one label bin-soiled, the rest slightly bin-soiled. Bottle nos. 18365, 18368, 18369, 18370, 18372, 18373, 18375, 18378, 18447, 18451, 18452, 18459. Levels: two 2.5, three 3, one 3.5, four 4, one 4.5 and one 5cms below base of capsules Tasting note: The youthful La Tâche was already aromatic and exciting at the big Lebegue tasting in the autumn of 1967 and five years later, one of the stars of the Christie's DRC tasting. Certainly not pale and loitering but deeply coloured and positive in the mid 1970s, almost over-opulent, exuberant, velvety yet zestful at a DRC tasting in 1977. In May 1983 with Christopher Fielden and the late John Arlott - cricket commentator, wine bibber and wine writer - I went to the Domaine to discuss a book about DRC. We were treated to a vertical of La Tâche. The '66 deep; fragrant; crisp, rich, perfectly balanced. Only a matter of months later began to show maturity at the rim and its bouquet and flavour in full flower, indeed in full flood. Glorious in 1992 and three notes since: superb, assertive "vast and tannic" at Prince Rupert Löwenstein's in 1996 and early the following year, within a day of each other in New York, a slightly woody tannic bottle brought to a restaurant for lunch but not given enough time to open up. A fully mature-looking, hefty, spicy, sweet and powerful bottle from Tawfiq Khoury's cellar with quite a bite and remarkable acidity. Last tasted in New York, Feb 1997, at best five stars. M.B. 12 bottles per lot