Château Cheval-Blanc--Vintage 1953 Level: bottom neck; heavily scuffed and bin soiled label (1) --Vintage 1961 Level: upper shoulder; bin soiled, scuffed and torn label (1) --Vintage 1964 Levels: one top shoulder, two upper shoulder; one corroded capsule, two nicked capsules, signs of old seepage, lightly bin soiled and faded labels (3)
5 bottles per lot
RARE BORDEAUX FROM A LIFELONG COLLECTIOR AND PASSIONATE EXPERT The following 71 lots are generously consigned to Christie's from an outstanding cellar long known to industry insiders. This is truly a wine lover and drinker's collection, with well-aged bottles of the best of Bordeaux from both the legendary vintages, but also hidden gems not often seen at auction. Many of the lots came into this client's possession due a close relationship with the vignerons and Château owners. The wines have been gathered from reputable sources over the past 30 years and stored in a combination of professional and pristine home storage. This is but a small pruning to a collection that stretches into the tens of thousands of bottles, an Aladdin's cave of vinous treasures. Nearly every great vintage of is represented here, from the legendary 1947 Latour à Pomerol to 1953 Cheval Blanc to magnums of 1982 from Pétrus and Lafite. The is one of the most generous and knowledge clients we've met and dinner over steaks was an eye-opening experience, as bottles of 1966 Léoville las Cases and 1979 La Mission Haut Brion defied the fair reputations of the their vintages and were wines of finesse and power that gained traction over the hours of expert conversation. A bottle of 1961 Troplong Mondot from this cellar, opening at the Christie's office while cataloguing the sale, was explosive on the nose, with classic Right Bank notes of spiced berry potpourri underlying a bedrock of voluptuous dark fruit. Lots of plums, licorice and rhubarb. Incredible texture and the color-youthful and bright! Vibrant and balanced, lots of life ahead of it, though I wouldn't be able to hold back if I had another bottle. ST. ÉMILION - CHEVAL BLANC St.-Émilion, south of Pomerol and north of the Dordogne on what is collectively known as "the right bank," is ruled (at least in a viticultural sense) by Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Cabernet Sauvignon, the grape that most people associate with Bordeaux, has trouble ripening so far inland, and thus most of the wines that come out of St.-Émilion are made from Merlot and Cabernet Franc, grapes that produce rich, solid wines that are approachable young. The right bank in general has always had a reputation for luscious wines that benefit from bottle age, but can be drunk at any time (a reputation that, some say, has been reinforced by the tag-team duo of Michel Rolland and Robert Parker . Though St.-Émilion was left out of the Classification of 1855, it regularly undergoes its own classification based on the findings of tasting panels. In general, there are two prominent regions within St.- Émilion: the area to the northwest, sharing the gravelly plateau with Pomerol and the area to the southeast around the escarpment of the town of St.-Émilion itself. Château Cheval Blanc is the most famous chteau of the former and Château Ausone, due south of the town, of the latter. Château Cheval-Blanc--Vintage 1953 Level: bottom neck; heavily scuffed and bin soiled label (1) --Vintage 1961 Level: upper shoulder; bin soiled, scuffed and torn label (1) --Vintage 1964 Levels: one top shoulder, two upper shoulder; one corroded capsule, two nicked capsules, signs of old seepage, lightly bin soiled and faded labels (3) Saint-Emilion, 1er grand cru classé (A) 5 bottles per lot
Château Cheval-Blanc--Vintage 1953 Level: bottom neck; heavily scuffed and bin soiled label (1) --Vintage 1961 Level: upper shoulder; bin soiled, scuffed and torn label (1) --Vintage 1964 Levels: one top shoulder, two upper shoulder; one corroded capsule, two nicked capsules, signs of old seepage, lightly bin soiled and faded labels (3)
5 bottles per lot
RARE BORDEAUX FROM A LIFELONG COLLECTIOR AND PASSIONATE EXPERT The following 71 lots are generously consigned to Christie's from an outstanding cellar long known to industry insiders. This is truly a wine lover and drinker's collection, with well-aged bottles of the best of Bordeaux from both the legendary vintages, but also hidden gems not often seen at auction. Many of the lots came into this client's possession due a close relationship with the vignerons and Château owners. The wines have been gathered from reputable sources over the past 30 years and stored in a combination of professional and pristine home storage. This is but a small pruning to a collection that stretches into the tens of thousands of bottles, an Aladdin's cave of vinous treasures. Nearly every great vintage of is represented here, from the legendary 1947 Latour à Pomerol to 1953 Cheval Blanc to magnums of 1982 from Pétrus and Lafite. The is one of the most generous and knowledge clients we've met and dinner over steaks was an eye-opening experience, as bottles of 1966 Léoville las Cases and 1979 La Mission Haut Brion defied the fair reputations of the their vintages and were wines of finesse and power that gained traction over the hours of expert conversation. A bottle of 1961 Troplong Mondot from this cellar, opening at the Christie's office while cataloguing the sale, was explosive on the nose, with classic Right Bank notes of spiced berry potpourri underlying a bedrock of voluptuous dark fruit. Lots of plums, licorice and rhubarb. Incredible texture and the color-youthful and bright! Vibrant and balanced, lots of life ahead of it, though I wouldn't be able to hold back if I had another bottle. ST. ÉMILION - CHEVAL BLANC St.-Émilion, south of Pomerol and north of the Dordogne on what is collectively known as "the right bank," is ruled (at least in a viticultural sense) by Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Cabernet Sauvignon, the grape that most people associate with Bordeaux, has trouble ripening so far inland, and thus most of the wines that come out of St.-Émilion are made from Merlot and Cabernet Franc, grapes that produce rich, solid wines that are approachable young. The right bank in general has always had a reputation for luscious wines that benefit from bottle age, but can be drunk at any time (a reputation that, some say, has been reinforced by the tag-team duo of Michel Rolland and Robert Parker . Though St.-Émilion was left out of the Classification of 1855, it regularly undergoes its own classification based on the findings of tasting panels. In general, there are two prominent regions within St.- Émilion: the area to the northwest, sharing the gravelly plateau with Pomerol and the area to the southeast around the escarpment of the town of St.-Émilion itself. Château Cheval Blanc is the most famous chteau of the former and Château Ausone, due south of the town, of the latter. Château Cheval-Blanc--Vintage 1953 Level: bottom neck; heavily scuffed and bin soiled label (1) --Vintage 1961 Level: upper shoulder; bin soiled, scuffed and torn label (1) --Vintage 1964 Levels: one top shoulder, two upper shoulder; one corroded capsule, two nicked capsules, signs of old seepage, lightly bin soiled and faded labels (3) Saint-Emilion, 1er grand cru classé (A) 5 bottles per lot
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