When 1962 Château Lafite Rothschild was released in 1965, it retailed at about £2 per bottle, which would now equate to about £40.
Happy days… 😊
It was a late late vintage in 1962. Ripening was delayed (because the sap in the vines kept drying out), so the harvest didn’t start until 10th October; in 1961 it began on 27th September. The resulting wines had a streak of acidity that ran through the wine like “Brighton Rock” in a stick of boiled sugar.
Arden’s bottle of Lafite ’62 came from a private client in the East Midlands, who retained it from their late parent’s cellar.
It’s a great bottle for a 60th birthday or anniversary in 2022. (Or a Saturday night dinner 🍷.)
The 1950 Bordeaux vintage had an abundant crop – twice as large as 1949 – that produced plentiful and reasonably-priced wines.
A lovely bottle of 1950 Château Lafite Rothschild came into our cellar from an East Anglia auctioneer.
The “Louis Eschenauer” négociant label suggest the eminence of that company in the 1950s.
Nowadays it sells IGP Pays d’Oc and Crémant de Bordeaux to off-licence chains…
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Château Lafite Rothschild 1950£1,200.00 -
Château Lafite Rothschild 1962£840.00