Sandeman--Vintage 1870

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Sandeman--Vintage 1870
.Wax capsule damaged. The top of the capsule reads: L & C White & Co. Vintage 1870.
.About the vintage: "Made under most favourable circumstances, though ravages of phylloxera noted--one quinta, whose production averaged fifty pipes in the mid-1840's, was reduced to two pipes in 1870. (Ridley's Wine Trade Monthly). Nineteen port houses declared and shipped this vintage, the greatest between 1863 and 1878." GVWB
.1 bottle per lot
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