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Thu, Apr 10, 2025 03:00PM EDT - Fri, Apr 11, 2025 03:00PM EDT
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- 1995
- 750ml
- France
- Bordeaux
- Medoc
- Pauillac
- Bordeaux Red Blend
- Red
- First Growth
Lot 25
1995 Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac - 6 bottle(s)-750ml
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This lot is comprised of 6 bottle(s) of 1995 Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $5400 - $7200 with a BUY IT NOW of $6300. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11604.
Please note the following bottle conditions in this lot - Scuffed Label
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An Alberta-based collector who started buying wine in the early eighties. He was told at that time to buy futures, so he started to buy by the case. Wine was always stored at 58 degrees in one of his 2 wine fridges. He always liked Bordeaux and kept buying them and storing them for future consumption. Unfortunately, around 1995 the prices shot up and so began buying and drinking less expensive wine, concentrating on Pontet Canet, which he feels is as good as the first growths. As he ages, he has decided to thin out his collection.
The rating for 1995 Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac is 95 points from Robert Parker and the tasting note - The 1995 Lafite-Rothschild (only one-third of the harvest made it into the final blend) is a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, and 8% Cabernet Franc. The wine was showing spectacularly well when I tasted it in November, 1997. It exhibits a dark ruby purple color, and a sweet, powdered mineral, smoky, weedy cassis-scented nose. Beautiful sweetness of fruit is present in this medium-bodied, tightly-knit, but gloriously pure, well-delineated Lafite. The 1995 is not as powerful or as massive as the 1996, but it is beautifully made with outstanding credentials, in addition to remarkable promise.