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Vintage | Wine 1964 |
Classification | Médoc - 5ème Cru Classé |
Region | Bordeaux |
Appellation | Pauillac |
Colour | Red |
Volume | 1.50 l |
Country | France |
Château | Château Grand Puy Lacoste |
Country | France |
The Château Grand-Puy Lacoste is a french estate in Pauillac in Gironde. The vineyard has 55 hectares of vines. The Château Grand Puy Lacoste is a Fifth Classified Growth in the 1855 Médoc wine classification.
The Château produces a second wine, Lacoste-Borie. It is made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and, of course, Merlot grapes.
The best years of the Château Grand-Puy Lacoste are the vintages 1947, 1949 and 1959, 1970 wines, crus classés of 1982 and 1986. Then, the vintages 1990 and 1994 are exceptional.
Sauternes
Saint Julien
Saint Julien
Champagne
CHÂTEAU LAFÜE Crème de Tête 1964
Sainte Croix du Mont
BOURDY JEAN Château Chalon 1964
Château Chalon
CHÂTEAU LA TOUR DES TERMES 1964
Saint Estèphe
CHÂTEAU GRUAUD LAROSE Magnum 1964
Saint Julien
Sauternes
(02-2009) Tasted blind at The Arches in London. Almost an identical bottle to the one last year, this is a great Grand Puy-Lacoste with that very “correct” cedar and cigar box nose with great definition. The palate is medium-bodied, very well balanced, not complex but it does not need to be: this is more about refinement, class, not doing anything out of the ordinary. Lovely poise on the leafy finish. Very fine.
(09-2007)
Information on the vintage 1964 red Bordeaux: Dismiss the idea that this was anything other than a very good vintage; yet it is tarnished merely because of very heavy but localised rain in the middle of the harvest, mainly in Pauillac and St-Estèphe, which caught out some major châteaux. But as it will be seen, even the rain-soaked vienyards managed to produce some very flavoury wines. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that the very best '64s were made to the south of the Medoc, in the Graves, and on the Right Bank some outstanding Pomerols and St-Emilions.