1981 Moulin des Carruades, Pauillac

Christophe Salin explains that Carruades was first a domaine wine (he says he actually had a very good 1859 at Lafite 2 weeks ago). 'In the 20th century, it became the second wine of Lafite until the late 1960s, when it was renamed Moulin des Carruades (certain sommeliers were pretending Carruades de Lafite was a special confidential cuvée on top of Lafite! We had to stop that). Finally, we decided in the early 1980s to go back to Carruades de Lafite Rothschild and..actually Carruades de Lafite now. Thus, it is absolutely correct to find in the 1980s (before 1986) two labels for the same vintage with different names … very confusing indeed. The good news is that since ’86, everything is clear again!'