1 dozen bottles per lot
细节
FINE WINES FROM A COLLECTOR
The following consignor is a long-term client and friend to Christie's. His extensive cellar is diverse, with everything from top Barolo and Barbaresco, Austrian Grüner Veltliners, Grand Cru Burgundy, cult Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape and cult Australian wine. For this sale, he focused on 2000 Bordeaux from the best producers including a very rare case of Ausone. Samples from his cellars over the years have been uniformly outstanding. The wines were removed for sale from the client's custom built cellar, which is temperature and humidity controlled.
THE MONUMENTAL 2000 BORDEAUX VINTAGE
"The growing season, as always in Bordeaux, was by no means straightforward. The New Year and spring were more than mild, with above-average temperatures in March, resulting in early bud burst. However, though the warmth continued in April and May, it was wet, flowering started at the end of the month. The damp conditions continued through a depressingly cloudy and humid June and July. What saved the day (rather like 1978 though the heat and sun arrived a month earlier) was almost unbroken sunshine without rain from August through September, resulting in fine ripening conditions favouring the Merlot and, for those who waited and timed it right, the late-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon.
Unquestionably, this was a very good year, fairly uniform in quality with some really outstanding wines. No serious cellar should be without some decent 2000s." MB, Vintage Wine
Château Ausone--Vintage 2000
Saint-Emilion, 1er grand cru classé (A)
Levels: one bottom neck
In original wooden case
1 dozen bottles per lot
The following consignor is a long-term client and friend to Christie's. His extensive cellar is diverse, with everything from top Barolo and Barbaresco, Austrian Grüner Veltliners, Grand Cru Burgundy, cult Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape and cult Australian wine. For this sale, he focused on 2000 Bordeaux from the best producers including a very rare case of Ausone. Samples from his cellars over the years have been uniformly outstanding. The wines were removed for sale from the client's custom built cellar, which is temperature and humidity controlled.
THE MONUMENTAL 2000 BORDEAUX VINTAGE
"The growing season, as always in Bordeaux, was by no means straightforward. The New Year and spring were more than mild, with above-average temperatures in March, resulting in early bud burst. However, though the warmth continued in April and May, it was wet, flowering started at the end of the month. The damp conditions continued through a depressingly cloudy and humid June and July. What saved the day (rather like 1978 though the heat and sun arrived a month earlier) was almost unbroken sunshine without rain from August through September, resulting in fine ripening conditions favouring the Merlot and, for those who waited and timed it right, the late-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon.
Unquestionably, this was a very good year, fairly uniform in quality with some really outstanding wines. No serious cellar should be without some decent 2000s." MB, Vintage Wine
Château Ausone--Vintage 2000
Saint-Emilion, 1er grand cru classé (A)
Levels: one bottom neck
In original wooden case
1 dozen bottles per lot