Вино Шато Лафит 1865 (Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1865)

98 Points Robert Parker
“Except for the 1966 and 1870 vintages of Lafite-Rothschild, these wines were poured on virgin territory on my palate. The other great classics from the last century were remarkable wines, all with original corks, and in extraordinary condition. Their age was authenticated by Michael Broadbent, who is the only person in the world to have the good fortune to have tasted these wines on several occasions. The 1865 Lafite-Rothschild was other-worldly. The first word I wrote after smelling it was "wow!". The colour is a medium garnet with considerable rust and orange at the edge. The wine possessed an extraordinary fragrance, great density, and fabulous intensity of chocolate, herb, and cedar-like flavours with a wonderful, sweet, inner-core of opulent fruit. The finish is long and velvety, with no hard edges. It is hard to imagine a 130-year old wine (made when American Civil War adversaries, Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, were alive) tasting so extraordinary, but I was there - I saw it, I smelled it, I tasted it, and I drank it! Unreal!”

5* Michael Broadbent
First encountered in the cellars at Bodorgan, the seat of the Meyrick family in Anglesey, North Wales: 104 bottles not moved since binned, capsules embossed ‘Lafite’ but unbranded cork. Levels, and overall condition, perfect (just five ‘slightly ullaged’). First tasted in the cellar: medium pale but lovely color; bouquet wholesome but fading drying out and thinning though very much alive (one of the ‘slightly ullaged’ bottles — halfway down the neckl — was sweeter but slightly more acidic).Two other notes, one at the pit-sale tasting.Lafite, a bottle from Lord Rosebery’s cellar at Overton’s tasting in i9: amazingly youthful, good, rich. Perfectly balanced. At Rodenstock’s in rws: embossed glass ‘lozenge’ with name of wine on shoulder of bottle, ‘R. Cabs’ on label. Alas, nose like blancmange, medicinal, tinny. Volatile, oxidised with grubby aftertaste. Most recently a bottle recorked at the château in 1980: medium-dry lovely color, amber rim; showing its age and slightly malty at first but after an hour had got its ‘second wind’. Dry, a hefty style,very tannic. Very impressive. Last noted at Jaeger’s June 2001. At best