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A SUPERLATIVE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF RARE WINES, MAINLY COMPRISING FIRST-GROWTHS, INCLUDING PETRUS 1945 AND 1961
It is a great pleasure to be able to offer for sale this superb collection of wines. The collection has been assembled by a truly knowledgeable collector with many of the lots having been purchased from Christie's over the last ten to fifteen years. On offer is a truly comprehensive collection of Pétrus and many other great wines all in terrific condition following storage in a perfect small temperature and humidity controlled house cellar in London
Recently removed from a perfect temperature and humidity controlled private cellar and now lying in Twickenham, Middlesex (EHD)
Lots 46 to 223
Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1864
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Recorked at the Château in 1986. Level top-shoulder
Tasting Note: I have been privileged to taste, to drink, this wine - reputedly the finest wine of the vintage and the greatest Lafite of the century - on seven occasions. Whether Queen Victoria, a regular sherry and claret drinker, was fully aware of its stellar quality, I do not know, but it was certainly in the royal cellars and being consumed in the mid-1870s.
First noted in 1976: a superb Cockburn and Campbell magnum. The second, and most memorable, a jeroboam from the cellars of Mrs James de Rothschild which, in an American cellar, had suffered cork failure. A perfect bottle from the château, recorked, at the Overton tasting in 1979; again in 1987, and another, recorked by the maître de chai in 1986, at Flatt's Lafite tasting in 1988. All superb.
Next, an almost too sweet bottle, labelled 'Lafite Bon (Baron) de Rothschild, R. Galos' at a Rodenstock tasting in 1995, and, very recently, perfection, complete, harmonious. Last tasted at Wilfred Jaeger's, June 2001 ***** M.B.
1 bottle per lot
It is a great pleasure to be able to offer for sale this superb collection of wines. The collection has been assembled by a truly knowledgeable collector with many of the lots having been purchased from Christie's over the last ten to fifteen years. On offer is a truly comprehensive collection of Pétrus and many other great wines all in terrific condition following storage in a perfect small temperature and humidity controlled house cellar in London
Recently removed from a perfect temperature and humidity controlled private cellar and now lying in Twickenham, Middlesex (EHD)
Lots 46 to 223
Château Lafite-Rothschild--Vintage 1864
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Recorked at the Château in 1986. Level top-shoulder
Tasting Note: I have been privileged to taste, to drink, this wine - reputedly the finest wine of the vintage and the greatest Lafite of the century - on seven occasions. Whether Queen Victoria, a regular sherry and claret drinker, was fully aware of its stellar quality, I do not know, but it was certainly in the royal cellars and being consumed in the mid-1870s.
First noted in 1976: a superb Cockburn and Campbell magnum. The second, and most memorable, a jeroboam from the cellars of Mrs James de Rothschild which, in an American cellar, had suffered cork failure. A perfect bottle from the château, recorked, at the Overton tasting in 1979; again in 1987, and another, recorked by the maître de chai in 1986, at Flatt's Lafite tasting in 1988. All superb.
Next, an almost too sweet bottle, labelled 'Lafite Bon (Baron) de Rothschild, R. Galos' at a Rodenstock tasting in 1995, and, very recently, perfection, complete, harmonious. Last tasted at Wilfred Jaeger's, June 2001 ***** M.B.
1 bottle per lot
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