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A STUNNING ARRAY OF RARE AMD MATURE BURGUNDIES FEATURING EXCEPTIONAL BAROLET BOTTLINGS FROM THE EARLY PART OF THE LAST CENTURY.
COLLECTION DU DR BAROLET
Many of the mature Burgundies represented here are from the Docteur Barolet Collection.
I the early autumn of 1969 a local wine broker took Harry Waugh, then wine director of Harvey's of Bristol, to see the cellar. He in turn, contacted Christie's and Michael Broadbent met him in the courtyard of the large Barolet mansion just outside the walls of Beaune to find a vast stock,many thousands of bottles of wine binned, unlabelled, heavily covered with white cellar mould, with vintages back to 1911. The problem was how to market them.
A Swiss firm, Henri de Villamont, with cellars in Savigny-lés-Beaune, acquired title and stocks and agreed to a major sale at Christie's to establish prices. The wines were offered ex-cellars Beaune, and the sale was an outstanding success, for the first time achieving prices approaching those of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, certainly well ahead of the leading négociant wines of the time.
Beaune Clos des Fèves--Vintage 1877
Côte de Beaune, Chanson
Level: 2.5cm
1 bottle per lot
COLLECTION DU DR BAROLET
Many of the mature Burgundies represented here are from the Docteur Barolet Collection.
I the early autumn of 1969 a local wine broker took Harry Waugh, then wine director of Harvey's of Bristol, to see the cellar. He in turn, contacted Christie's and Michael Broadbent met him in the courtyard of the large Barolet mansion just outside the walls of Beaune to find a vast stock,many thousands of bottles of wine binned, unlabelled, heavily covered with white cellar mould, with vintages back to 1911. The problem was how to market them.
A Swiss firm, Henri de Villamont, with cellars in Savigny-lés-Beaune, acquired title and stocks and agreed to a major sale at Christie's to establish prices. The wines were offered ex-cellars Beaune, and the sale was an outstanding success, for the first time achieving prices approaching those of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, certainly well ahead of the leading négociant wines of the time.
Beaune Clos des Fèves--Vintage 1877
Côte de Beaune, Chanson
Level: 2.5cm
1 bottle per lot