Assorted mature clarets

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The following wines, all about to be sold in small lots by Bid for Wine, were tasted earlier this month over a delicious lunch at The Ledbury in London W11. All the wines from the 1960s and 1970s reminded me immediately of Christie's wine auctioneer Michael Broadbent – just his era. Delicious if discreet blasts from the past.

I have listed the wines in the order they were served. They had all been double decanted at 12.15.

The wines marked Wilts will be in the featured auction of wines from a private Wiltshire cellar for a week from...