With 12% alcohol, and scoring 17 points on the Dionysian scale of a possible 20,  the 51 year-old Bordeaux, the 1964 Carruades is the second label of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild. 

Back then, it cost about $9 and Lafite could be gotten for under $20, not like now where it’s  almost one thousand dollars fa bottle or the 2010 Lafite’s.

This Cabernet Sauvignon-based Bordeaux was all tobacco and leather. Smooth with hints of dried fruits,  it developed after half an hour. Merlot and Cabernet Franc left dried blueberry and rose pedal.

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This second label is still worth while wine to cellar and age for decades.

It was served with a honey-glazed port chop but was made to match with petit rake of lamb. In vino veritas.