1964 Château Laffitte Carcasset - Bordeaux, Saint-Estèphe Cru Bourgeois - 6 Bottles (0.75L)

1964 Château Laffitte Carcasset, Saint-Estèphe Cru Bourgeois About the domain Located on the hills in the far north of the appellation, this property benefits from an excellent terroir. It produces an elegant, refined wine - quite light, but also full-flavoured and harmonious. About the cuvée Unlike some Saint Estèphes, the tannins are not coarse or excessive. This wine seems to have a great capacity to improve with age. Vintage description 1964 Bordeaux An excellent vintage which was contrasted by torrential rain during the harvest. A hot and dry summer that encouraged the ripening of Merlot, which is the earliest ripening of the grape varieties. Consequently, Pomerol, Saint-Emilion, and Graves produced exceptional wines, rich, concentrated and powerful. Comparable in quality to the 1961 vintage, most of these wines are often underestimated and under priced. However, many estates situated in Médoc suffered from the rain in October which wiped out the slower-to-ripen Cabernet Sauvignon. With a few exceptions (Montrose and Latour) , numerous châteaux (Lafite, Mouton,Lynch-Bages, Calon Ségur, etc.) produced thin wines, lacking depth.