A MAGNIFICENT PRIVATE COLLECTION OF RARE MADEIRA
Lying at Christie's
Blandy--Vintage 1792
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Blandy--Vintage 1792
Plain wax capsule. Remains of label. Level just below top-shoulder 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 supplies of fruit. The only person allowed on board was 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 Veitch 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 Blandy's famous 1792 Solera but some was bottled by Charles's son John Blandy in 1840
1 bottle per lot
Plain wax capsule. Remains of label. Level just below top-shoulder 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 supplies of fruit. The only person allowed on board was 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 Veitch 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 Blandy's famous 1792 Solera but some was bottled by Charles's son John Blandy in 1840
1 bottle per lot