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
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
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