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Search Flickinger Wine Inventory
Inventory updated: Sat, Dec 20, 2025 06:40 AM cst
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Regions: Bordeaux Red
Vintages: 1979 and earlier
| Producer |
Vint. |
Wine |
Price |
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| | Bordeaux Red |
| Ch. Ausone |
1966 |
St. Emilion  High-Shoulder Fill |
$300 |
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MB [****] (10/1987): Good wine. Idiosyncratic as always. Stylish and elegant in the early 1970s; very fragrant and flavoury at Flatt's tasting in 1987, but not tasted since.
NM 86 (12/2009): Tasted at the Ausone vertical in London. The ’66 Ausone has a deep russet core with tawny rim. The nose is very leafy and dry, certainly with more Cabernet Franc than Merlot: sous-bois, pencils shavings, cedar and chimney soot. The palate is medium-bodied with a generous sweetness on the entry, light red-berried fruits, quite sharp acidity, certainly not a complex Ausone, touches of bitter cherry and leather that segues into a chalky, foursquare finish in tune with the vintage. Cut from a similar cloth as the ’61, but without the same depth or complexity. Drink now-2014.
WS 85 (11/1987): (no tasting note).
WA 78 (3/1997): Tasted twice from well-stored bottles in Bordeaux, this wine reveals an amber/rust overtone to its medium garnet color. At first the nose offers attractive faded fruit, old leather, and dried herb-like aromas. In the mouth, the wine possesses sweetness on the attack that quickly faded to reveal astringency, harshness, and a medium-bodied, hollow personality. It is clearly in decline. |
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| Ch. Lafite Rothschild |
1979 |
Pauillac (5.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$4,389.99 |
1 |
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WS 92 (11/1991): Fruity, deep and firm, filled with plum and cherry, backed by youthful, stiff tannins. Needs time for complexity to develop. Try in 1995.--Lafite Rothschild vertical.
MB [***] (7/1999): Like a bad-tempered baby pulled out of its cot by a doting father it was presented on its first birthday prior to a Lafite dinner at Boulestin's in London. Raw and raucous. By the early to mid-1980s, it was hard and very tannic but with good length. At Penning-Rowsell's '10-year' dinner its nose and taste beginning to demonstrate Lafite fragrances, though a touch of astringency. I have just four notes over the past decade: peppery, high-toned; firm, flavoury but dry (Stockholm 1994). In a 'flight' of four Lafite imperiales, spicy, good fruit but raw, very tannic (1996). Yet another imperaile: attractive, enough fruit and in particular enough extract and tannin to cope with black truffle and marscarpone-crusted Brie (Bacchus Society 1997). Most recently, Jamie Guise's last magnum: still deep, rich, lovey; distinctly good, distinctly Lafite- it opened up fragrantly; pretty good yet still very tannic.
WA 87 (10/1997): I overrated this wine when it was young, and have not been as pleased with its evolution in the bottle. The wine has retained a cool climate high acidity, giving it a more compressed personality than I had envisioned. The color remains a dark ruby/garnet, but the nose has taken on a more vegetal, earthy note to go along with the new oak and sweet red and black currant personality. The wine's crisp acidity keeps its tannic edge aggressive. There is already some amber at the edge of the wine's color. Anticipated maturity: Now-2012. |
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