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RICHARD GILL: AN AMERICAN LIFE
Born in 1895 in Choctaw (in Indian Territory that would later become Oklahoma), Richard Gill was the youngest child of Augustus (Gus A.) Gill, a deputy U.S. Marshall. The Gill family can trace its lineage in the United States back to a certain Zeally Moss, a Captain in the Revolutionary War and relation by marriage to Martha Washington, the former also having been present at the British surrender at Yorktown.
During the First World War, Richard Gill joined the Army as a private and was assigned to the Quartermaster Corps where he was promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant. After the war he began work in mortgage banking and in 1923 moved to San Antonio, Texas. There he founded his own firm, The Richard Gill Company, which would eventually become a diversified financial services, real estate and insurance company. He also owned and managed several hotels throughout Texas. He was married to Mabel Francis "Mike" Doud Gill Moore, sister of Mamie Doud Eisenhower, and later to Josephine Lutz Gill Hudson having children with each.
Throughout his life Gill was an avid sportsman, outdoor enthusiast and world traveler. His great loves in later life, in addition to his family, were hunting, fishing, great food, wine, travel and especially entertaining. A love of cuisine and foreign lands took him around the world many times and especially to Europe where he developed an interest in wine. Richard Gill was also an active member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Confrries des Chevaliers du Tastevin and later aided Stanley Marcus, of Nieman-Marcus reknown, in establishing the Dallas chapter of the Chevaliers in 1958.
However the mid-1950s were a difficult time to be a lover of fine wine in Texas: Prohibition, though repealed, left a complex dry vs. wet system throughout the state. The importing of wine from Europe was a complex procedure, even for those who knew what they were looking for. But a fortunate connection would link Richard Gill and one of the wine world's foremost personalities, Alexis Lichine, and prove to be the start of a long and close friendship. Communication between the two men began in late 1952 through introductions by Edwin Bernauer of the Waldorf-Astoria and Hernando Courtright of the Beverly Hills Hotel. In early 1953 Gill would receive the first of several price lists of Burgundy and Bordeaux available through Alexis Lichine's firm. Through subsequent correspondence we see a selection arrived at with suggestions from Lichine, shipping and importation arrangements negotiated and confirmed. Through the course of many letters and exchanges we see first a straightforward business relationship blossom as Richard Gill agreed to become an original investor in the fledgling Alexis Lichine & Co. importing company. This close association would eventually develop into a friendship, as formality gave way to first names and updates about wives and family became the norm.
Lichine would later remark that Richard Gill's cellar, comprising in large part of wines purchased directly from Lichine himself, was the finest that he ever assembled or advised on.
Peter Gill, with aid from Christopher and Richard Gill.
A note on cellar conditions:
For more than 60 years the wines have been stored in the same cellar, first at Richard Gill's residence and then later in that of his son Christopher. The wines have moved only once when the entire cellar and cooling units were disassembled and reassembled in their current subterranean location. The cellar was custom-built in place and features two massive Friedrich Floatingair cooling units that maintain both temperature and a high ambient humidity; the entire storage system was designed and built by Richard Gill's close friend Dick Friedrich of the Friedrich Refrigeration Company, founded in San Antonio in 1883 and still in global operation.
Château Lafite-Rothschild 1949
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Lot 707 levels: three top shoulder, six upper shoulder, two upper-mid shoulder, one mid shoulder; six corroded capsules, seven lightly raised capsules, one heavily corroded and partially missing at top, bin soiled labels, heavy sediments
Lot 708 levels: one top shoulder, one upper shoulder, two mid shoulder; one lightly corroded capsule with signs of old seepage; bin soiled labels, heavy sediments
12 bottles per lot
Born in 1895 in Choctaw (in Indian Territory that would later become Oklahoma), Richard Gill was the youngest child of Augustus (Gus A.) Gill, a deputy U.S. Marshall. The Gill family can trace its lineage in the United States back to a certain Zeally Moss, a Captain in the Revolutionary War and relation by marriage to Martha Washington, the former also having been present at the British surrender at Yorktown.
During the First World War, Richard Gill joined the Army as a private and was assigned to the Quartermaster Corps where he was promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant. After the war he began work in mortgage banking and in 1923 moved to San Antonio, Texas. There he founded his own firm, The Richard Gill Company, which would eventually become a diversified financial services, real estate and insurance company. He also owned and managed several hotels throughout Texas. He was married to Mabel Francis "Mike" Doud Gill Moore, sister of Mamie Doud Eisenhower, and later to Josephine Lutz Gill Hudson having children with each.
Throughout his life Gill was an avid sportsman, outdoor enthusiast and world traveler. His great loves in later life, in addition to his family, were hunting, fishing, great food, wine, travel and especially entertaining. A love of cuisine and foreign lands took him around the world many times and especially to Europe where he developed an interest in wine. Richard Gill was also an active member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Confrries des Chevaliers du Tastevin and later aided Stanley Marcus, of Nieman-Marcus reknown, in establishing the Dallas chapter of the Chevaliers in 1958.
However the mid-1950s were a difficult time to be a lover of fine wine in Texas: Prohibition, though repealed, left a complex dry vs. wet system throughout the state. The importing of wine from Europe was a complex procedure, even for those who knew what they were looking for. But a fortunate connection would link Richard Gill and one of the wine world's foremost personalities, Alexis Lichine, and prove to be the start of a long and close friendship. Communication between the two men began in late 1952 through introductions by Edwin Bernauer of the Waldorf-Astoria and Hernando Courtright of the Beverly Hills Hotel. In early 1953 Gill would receive the first of several price lists of Burgundy and Bordeaux available through Alexis Lichine's firm. Through subsequent correspondence we see a selection arrived at with suggestions from Lichine, shipping and importation arrangements negotiated and confirmed. Through the course of many letters and exchanges we see first a straightforward business relationship blossom as Richard Gill agreed to become an original investor in the fledgling Alexis Lichine & Co. importing company. This close association would eventually develop into a friendship, as formality gave way to first names and updates about wives and family became the norm.
Lichine would later remark that Richard Gill's cellar, comprising in large part of wines purchased directly from Lichine himself, was the finest that he ever assembled or advised on.
Peter Gill, with aid from Christopher and Richard Gill.
A note on cellar conditions:
For more than 60 years the wines have been stored in the same cellar, first at Richard Gill's residence and then later in that of his son Christopher. The wines have moved only once when the entire cellar and cooling units were disassembled and reassembled in their current subterranean location. The cellar was custom-built in place and features two massive Friedrich Floatingair cooling units that maintain both temperature and a high ambient humidity; the entire storage system was designed and built by Richard Gill's close friend Dick Friedrich of the Friedrich Refrigeration Company, founded in San Antonio in 1883 and still in global operation.
Château Lafite-Rothschild 1949
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Lot 707 levels: three top shoulder, six upper shoulder, two upper-mid shoulder, one mid shoulder; six corroded capsules, seven lightly raised capsules, one heavily corroded and partially missing at top, bin soiled labels, heavy sediments
Lot 708 levels: one top shoulder, one upper shoulder, two mid shoulder; one lightly corroded capsule with signs of old seepage; bin soiled labels, heavy sediments
12 bottles per lot
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