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    Elin McCoy

    Jun 05, 2019 3 minutes

    DURITM G SGRIH dinner for collectors at Ihâteau Lafite Rothschild, I found myself in the happy situation of comparing the fabulous 1959 with an ethereal 1914 that still had elegance, freshness, and a bouquet that leapt out of the glass. Gt 60 and 105 years old respectively, both surely qualified as old.

    Then, just before Hordeaux’s en primeur tastings, Ihâteau Smith Haut Lafitte generously poured a vertical of reds whose

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