"He is the only person to have
interviewed the last seven Presidents of the United States
and the last seven Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom"
(The Times)
SIR DAVID FROST
Sir David Frost's activities during his career have been so diverse that he has been described as a "one man conglomerate". It is easy to see why: host and co-creator of That Was the Week That Was, producer of countless television programmes from A Gift of Song: The Music for UNICEF Concert to the Spectacular World of Guinness Records; author of 17 books; producer of ten films (including "Rogue Trader" with Ewan McGregor and Anna Friel); publisher, lecturer, impresario and the joint founder of London Weekend Television and TV-am. Not to mention the fact that he is perhaps the best known television interviewer in the world. Indeed Sir David's Nixon Interviews achieved "the largest audience for a news interview in history" (New York Times).
In the year 2000 the BBC devoted an evening of programmes to celebrating "Forty Years with Frost". The first volume of his autobiography "From Congregations to Audiences", published by HarperCollins, became an immediate bestseller. In 2005, he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship, their highest honour. And in 2009 in New York he received the International Emmy Founders Award, which is their highest honour.
On the subject of this auction, Sir David credits Gonville and Caius College Cambridge with his education in wine. Indeed he says that he devoted at least as much zeal to this subject as he did to his more official education in the subject of English literature! He and his friend Colin (now Lord) Renfrew also formed a wining and dining club at Cambridge called the Cabal which met monthly at the Garden House Hotel.
Sir David began his collection of older wines after relishing a 1918 bottle of Château d'Issan at Ernies, the legendary restaurant in San Francisco. He says that wines of these older vintages have rarely, if ever, disappointed him and hopes that your experience of them will be the same.
Terrantez 1840
Above 2 bottles per lot
Details
TREASURES FROM THE CELLAR OF SIR DAVID FROST
The following lots 1 to 81 have been recently removed from the private cellar of Sir David Frost by Christie's staff and are now Lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD)
Terrantez 1840
Paestrello. Damaged wax capsule. Stencilled(1)
Boal Very Old 1868
Embossed metal capsule. Slip label, stencilled. Level base of neck(1)
Above 2 bottles per lot
The following lots 1 to 81 have been recently removed from the private cellar of Sir David Frost by Christie's staff and are now Lying in Weybridge, Surrey (EHD)
Terrantez 1840
Paestrello. Damaged wax capsule. Stencilled(1)
Boal Very Old 1868
Embossed metal capsule. Slip label, stencilled. Level base of neck(1)
Above 2 bottles per lot
Brought to you by
Antonia Essex