RARE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY MADEIRA
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Bual--Vintage 1792
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Bual--Vintage 1792
1792 was an excellent vintage but what makes this particular wine of great historic interest is that it is from a pipe taken by Napoléon to his final exile in Saint-Helena. It was on 7 August, 1815 that H.M.S. Northumberland anchored off Funchal to take on the H.M. Consul, Henry Veitch, who persuaded the deposed Emperor to take a "pipe" of the best Madeira.
Napoléon suffered from a gastric complaint and was not allowed to drink the wine. When he died in 1820 the pipe was unbroached. Mr Vietch had paid the supplier in madeira but had not been repaid although Napoléon had thanked him by giving him some Louis d'Or. The Consul claimed the wine, which was shipped back in 1822 and sold to Charles Blandy. Some, it is believed, was used as the basis for Balndy's famous 1972 Solera but some was bottled by Charle's som john Blandy in 1840
1 bottle per lot
1792 was an excellent vintage but what makes this particular wine of great historic interest is that it is from a pipe taken by Napoléon to his final exile in Saint-Helena. It was on 7 August, 1815 that H.M.S. Northumberland anchored off Funchal to take on the H.M. Consul, Henry Veitch, who persuaded the deposed Emperor to take a "pipe" of the best Madeira.
Napoléon suffered from a gastric complaint and was not allowed to drink the wine. When he died in 1820 the pipe was unbroached. Mr Vietch had paid the supplier in madeira but had not been repaid although Napoléon had thanked him by giving him some Louis d'Or. The Consul claimed the wine, which was shipped back in 1822 and sold to Charles Blandy. Some, it is believed, was used as the basis for Balndy's famous 1972 Solera but some was bottled by Charle's som john Blandy in 1840
1 bottle per lot