VERY RARE AND OLD SPIRITS, CORDIALS AND LIQUEURS
Recently removed from the cellars of a Cambridge college and now lying at Christie's
Crème de Noyau--early 19th Century
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Crème de Noyau--early 19th Century
Heavy green lead mould blown bottle; wax seal; original early printed "bottle ticket": "Crème de Noyau de Grand Maison du Fort St. Pierre de L'Isle de Martinique" and later nineteenth century body label, bin-soiled "Fort St. Pierre, Grand Maison Fils Succrs, L'Isle Martinique,. Excellent top-shoulder level
Provenance: the cellars of Boughton House, the Property of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, KT. PC, GCVO, sold at Christie's 26th June 1969.
Martinique was the natural centre of the French rum and liqueur industry from the mid eighteenth century until the catastrophic eruption of Mont Pelée in 1906 which completely obliterated the flourishing and fashionable city of St. Pierre, after which the liqueurs were fabricated in Bordeaux from fruit, cane sugar and rum imported from the West Indies. "Créme" liqueurs, sweet, naturally flavoured, soft yet strong were particulary fashionable in the early nineteenth century. The finest and rarest liqueurs ever sold at Christie's came from the Buccleuch cellars at Boughton and Drumlanrig Castle
1 bottle per lot
Heavy green lead mould blown bottle; wax seal; original early printed "bottle ticket": "Crème de Noyau de Grand Maison du Fort St. Pierre de L'Isle de Martinique" and later nineteenth century body label, bin-soiled "Fort St. Pierre, Grand Maison Fils Succrs, L'Isle Martinique,. Excellent top-shoulder level
Provenance: the cellars of Boughton House, the Property of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, KT. PC, GCVO, sold at Christie's 26th June 1969.
Martinique was the natural centre of the French rum and liqueur industry from the mid eighteenth century until the catastrophic eruption of Mont Pelée in 1906 which completely obliterated the flourishing and fashionable city of St. Pierre, after which the liqueurs were fabricated in Bordeaux from fruit, cane sugar and rum imported from the West Indies. "Créme" liqueurs, sweet, naturally flavoured, soft yet strong were particulary fashionable in the early nineteenth century. The finest and rarest liqueurs ever sold at Christie's came from the Buccleuch cellars at Boughton and Drumlanrig Castle
1 bottle per lot