1 dozen bottles per lot
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PIEDMONT'S FINEST FROM GIACOSA, CERETTO AND GAJA TOGETHER WITH A COMPREHENSIVE VERTICAL OF NAPA VALLEY'S ORIGNAL CULT WINE: HEITZ MARTHA'S VINEYARD
Property of a Metropolitan Aficionado
Recently removed by NYWinesCHRISTIE'S staff from professional storage maintaining exceptional temperature and humidity conditions.
This aficionado has consumed and collected wines over the past three decades. All of the wines chosen for this sale come from excellent sources: top retailers, winery direct and auction.
The following lots (259-324) represent the second half of a collection first presented to you in our Los Angeles, September 12-13, 2003 sale (Lots 681-753). The exceptional stock reserves of the finest Barolo & Barbaresco producers and a marvelous vertical of Heitz Martha's calls for particular attention.
We invite you to carefully review the following lots as it is rare in Los Angeles to come across such a tremendous appreciation of Italy's finest Piedmont vintners. Rarities such as Giacosa's 1982 red label reserva with into neck levels included below are exceptional. Equally impressive are the lots of Italy's most revered producer, Angelo Gaja. From his early vintages we present lots in large format and bottle of his Barbaresco 1961, 1978, 1982-3 & 1988 as well as his principal crus Costa Russi, Sori San Lorenzo, and Sori Tildin.
Scott Torrence
BRUNO GIACOSA
His Santo Stefano is without question one of the world's great wines, a true and classic expression of Nebiolo. Among the three lots offered is his top cuvée, the Red Label Riserva from to of the greatest vintages of the last 20 years, 1982 (a full case in original carton) and 1985.
Barbaresco, "Santo Stefano di Neive", Reserva--Vintage 1982
Piedmont, Giacosa
Levels: into neck
In original carton
1 dozen bottles per lot
Property of a Metropolitan Aficionado
Recently removed by NYWinesCHRISTIE'S staff from professional storage maintaining exceptional temperature and humidity conditions.
This aficionado has consumed and collected wines over the past three decades. All of the wines chosen for this sale come from excellent sources: top retailers, winery direct and auction.
The following lots (259-324) represent the second half of a collection first presented to you in our Los Angeles, September 12-13, 2003 sale (Lots 681-753). The exceptional stock reserves of the finest Barolo & Barbaresco producers and a marvelous vertical of Heitz Martha's calls for particular attention.
We invite you to carefully review the following lots as it is rare in Los Angeles to come across such a tremendous appreciation of Italy's finest Piedmont vintners. Rarities such as Giacosa's 1982 red label reserva with into neck levels included below are exceptional. Equally impressive are the lots of Italy's most revered producer, Angelo Gaja. From his early vintages we present lots in large format and bottle of his Barbaresco 1961, 1978, 1982-3 & 1988 as well as his principal crus Costa Russi, Sori San Lorenzo, and Sori Tildin.
Scott Torrence
BRUNO GIACOSA
His Santo Stefano is without question one of the world's great wines, a true and classic expression of Nebiolo. Among the three lots offered is his top cuvée, the Red Label Riserva from to of the greatest vintages of the last 20 years, 1982 (a full case in original carton) and 1985.
Barbaresco, "Santo Stefano di Neive", Reserva--Vintage 1982
Piedmont, Giacosa
Levels: into neck
In original carton
1 dozen bottles per lot