Community Tasting Note
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wineforth Likes this wine: 95 points
June 30, 2021 - An upper shoulder bottle bought several months ago in auction along with a '70. I was going to keep it until 2017 but despite a good label the corroded capsule and slightly pushed out cork made me decide the sooner the better. I needn't have worried as the cork came out in one with the butlers friend and the perfume filled the room. I knew immediately that I was in for a treat. 1967 was a light and beautifully balanced flavorful vintage and I drank quite a number of them in the 80's and 90's; including Petrus and Latour. Latour was the best of the left bank and I'd love to find a bottle at a sensible price - I used to pay £50! Dream on. Colour is light brick orange, perfume that puts many a Ch Margaux to shame, body light but impeccably balanced with fully resolved tannins that still provide just the right amount of backbone. Long and moreish finish. A remarkable survivor and well kept bottles will live another decade without recorking. Chapeau to Anthony Barton for the quality of cork used in an under rated vintage. From a technical perspective the score would be 90 but emotionally, for the memory and most importantly sheer enjoyment I'd give 95 plus. You can't put a number on a wine like this. P.s. opened to celebrate the agreement to buy a beautiful AMV8.
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