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WTN: Latour 1953

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This wine too was brick red and still possessed a modicum of fruit. It had a slightly bitter finish. I do not have a lot of experience with wines this old. I preferred the 1959 Haut-Brion mostly because of this bitter finish. Otherwise, they were actually fairly similar. Both bottles (this was a 750 in its original tissue wrapper) had good ullage, although the cork of the Latour disintegrated on opening. Perhaps that was the source of the bitterness. The bitterness wasn't much, but it was enough to notice.

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