12 bottles per lot
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A CHATEAU COLLECTION OF VERY RARE FOURTIES LA FLEUR PETRUS IN ORIGINAL WOODEN CASES
The following lots (85-102) were recently removed from the cool temperature-controlled cellar of Château Laroze in St Emilion.
There are two connexions between Château Laroze in Saint-Emilion and Château La Fleur Ptrus in Pomerol:
Current owner of Château Laroze Guy Meslin's father Georges's first cousin, Eliane d'Estrillaud de Gorre, was the wife of Jean-Pierre Garet, owner of Château La Fleur Petrus during the 30s and 40s.
In addition, his aunt married the son of Chteau La Fleur Petrus's previous owner Charles Montoury.
It was therefore perfectly normal for each to gift or swap bottles from each other's estates. All these vintages presented today have been lying in Château Laroze's cool temperature-controlled cellar since the 90s, before which they were stored, directly after bottling, in the family underground cellar in Libourne.
These bottles just pre-date Jean-Pierre Moueix's 1950 purchase of La Fleur Petrus and thus offer a very rare opportunity to sample the wines of the small original vineyard - situated between Petrus and Lafleur, before the consolidation with a parcel on the central plateau by Christian and a more recent consolidation by Edouard next to Trotanoy. The bottles have never been re-corked, having always been stored in excellent conditions.
La Fleur Petrus from the fourties is extremely rare. Checking these cases and bottles made us think on how the harvest conditions during the war must have been in occupied Pomerol.
We are therefore proud of being able to offer these historic La Fleur Petrus 1940 & 1943 in their original wooden cases and smaller quantities of 1945 & 1949.
Six bottles were checked by an Arcan particle accelerator lab which accurately dates the age of the glass and the liquid by Cesium 137. One bottle from 1940, three from 1943 and two from 1945, these bear the resulting prooftag.
All La Fleur Petrus are in different shapes and colors, reflecting the glass shortage during and just after the war. Most of the bottles in the wooden cases have their original straw covers.
Château La Fleur Pétrus 1940
Offered in original wooden cases
Lot 85: slightly corroded capsules, one with Arcane prooftag. Slightly stained and slightly damaged labels, exceptionnal for age. Levels: one into neck, six base of neck, four very top and one top-shoulder. Lot 86: Slightly corroded capsules. Slightly damaged and slightly stained labels. Levels: top-shoulder or better. Lot 87: slightly corroded capsules. Ten slightly damaged and three slightly stained labels. Levels: three top and six just below top-shoulder, two upper and one mid-shoulder. Lot 88: Corroded capsules. Slightly damaged labels. Level: four mid-shoulder, three mid/low and three low shoulder
12 bottles per lot
The following lots (85-102) were recently removed from the cool temperature-controlled cellar of Château Laroze in St Emilion.
There are two connexions between Château Laroze in Saint-Emilion and Château La Fleur Ptrus in Pomerol:
Current owner of Château Laroze Guy Meslin's father Georges's first cousin, Eliane d'Estrillaud de Gorre, was the wife of Jean-Pierre Garet, owner of Château La Fleur Petrus during the 30s and 40s.
In addition, his aunt married the son of Chteau La Fleur Petrus's previous owner Charles Montoury.
It was therefore perfectly normal for each to gift or swap bottles from each other's estates. All these vintages presented today have been lying in Château Laroze's cool temperature-controlled cellar since the 90s, before which they were stored, directly after bottling, in the family underground cellar in Libourne.
These bottles just pre-date Jean-Pierre Moueix's 1950 purchase of La Fleur Petrus and thus offer a very rare opportunity to sample the wines of the small original vineyard - situated between Petrus and Lafleur, before the consolidation with a parcel on the central plateau by Christian and a more recent consolidation by Edouard next to Trotanoy. The bottles have never been re-corked, having always been stored in excellent conditions.
La Fleur Petrus from the fourties is extremely rare. Checking these cases and bottles made us think on how the harvest conditions during the war must have been in occupied Pomerol.
We are therefore proud of being able to offer these historic La Fleur Petrus 1940 & 1943 in their original wooden cases and smaller quantities of 1945 & 1949.
Six bottles were checked by an Arcan particle accelerator lab which accurately dates the age of the glass and the liquid by Cesium 137. One bottle from 1940, three from 1943 and two from 1945, these bear the resulting prooftag.
All La Fleur Petrus are in different shapes and colors, reflecting the glass shortage during and just after the war. Most of the bottles in the wooden cases have their original straw covers.
Château La Fleur Pétrus 1940
Offered in original wooden cases
Lot 85: slightly corroded capsules, one with Arcane prooftag. Slightly stained and slightly damaged labels, exceptionnal for age. Levels: one into neck, six base of neck, four very top and one top-shoulder. Lot 86: Slightly corroded capsules. Slightly damaged and slightly stained labels. Levels: top-shoulder or better. Lot 87: slightly corroded capsules. Ten slightly damaged and three slightly stained labels. Levels: three top and six just below top-shoulder, two upper and one mid-shoulder. Lot 88: Corroded capsules. Slightly damaged labels. Level: four mid-shoulder, three mid/low and three low shoulder
12 bottles per lot
Special notice
On lots marked with an + in the catalogue, VAT will be charged at 8% on both the premium as well as the hammer price.