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AN IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF OUTSTANDING BORDEAUX FROM A DUTCH CELLAR
The wine auctions have since October 1976 formed an important part of Christie's Amsterdam. Over the years numerous wine collections have been auctioned developing from a local to a very international clientele.
For this special sale we have selected a small range of outstanding Bordeaux wines together with a noted Dutch collector where in this particular vintage the producer has excelled in quality and made a wine which for this specific Chateau is legendary. We provide you a change to acquire benchmark wines in great provenance.
Mouton Rothschild 1986, Lafleur 1989, Lafite Rothschild 1990 are great classics from high quality vintages.
The cases were opened and inspected by Christie's specialists and removed from the excellent temperature and humidity controlled cellar specifically for this sale. The condition of these wines is the best proof of the pristine storage.
Offered in original wooden cases
Château Mouton-Rothschild--Vintage 1986
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Excellent appearance
Two very slightly bin-soiled labels, five labels with very small stain. All bottles in original paper wraps in tact. Levels into neck or better
After stumbling over some wines I thought were high class Bordeaux, I nailed this wine in one of the blind tastings for this article. In most tastings where a great Bordeaux is inserted with California Cabernets, the Bordeaux comes across as drier, more austere, and not nearly as rich and concentrated (California wines are inevitably fruitier and more massive). To put it mildly, the 1986 Mouton-Rothschild held its own (and then some), in a flight that included the Caymus Special Selection, Stags Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23, Dunn Howell Mountain, and Joseph Phelps Eisele Vineyard. Clearly the youngest looking, most opaque and concentrated wine of the group, it tastes as if it has not budged in development since I first tasted it out of barrel in March, 1987. An enormously concentrated, massive Mouton-Rothschild, comparable in quality, but not style, to the 1982, 1959, and 1945, this impeccably made wine is still in its infancy. Interestingly, when I was in Bordeaux several years ago, I had this wine served to me blind from a magnum that had been opened and decanted 48 hours previously. Even then, it still tasted like a barrel sample! I suspect the 1986 Mouton-Rothschild requires a minimum of 15-20 more years of cellaring; it has the potential to last for 50-100 years! Given the outrageously high prices being fetched by so many of the great 1982s and 1990s (and lest I forget, the 1995 Bordeaux futures), it appears this wine might still be one of the "relative bargains" in the fine wine marketplace. I wonder how many readers will be in shape to drink it when it does finally reach full maturity?
The tasting notes for this section are from two single blind tastings, one conducted in May, 1996, in California, and the other in June, 1996, in Baltimore. 100p
12 bottles per lot
The wine auctions have since October 1976 formed an important part of Christie's Amsterdam. Over the years numerous wine collections have been auctioned developing from a local to a very international clientele.
For this special sale we have selected a small range of outstanding Bordeaux wines together with a noted Dutch collector where in this particular vintage the producer has excelled in quality and made a wine which for this specific Chateau is legendary. We provide you a change to acquire benchmark wines in great provenance.
Mouton Rothschild 1986, Lafleur 1989, Lafite Rothschild 1990 are great classics from high quality vintages.
The cases were opened and inspected by Christie's specialists and removed from the excellent temperature and humidity controlled cellar specifically for this sale. The condition of these wines is the best proof of the pristine storage.
Offered in original wooden cases
Château Mouton-Rothschild--Vintage 1986
Pauillac, 1er cru classé
Excellent appearance
Two very slightly bin-soiled labels, five labels with very small stain. All bottles in original paper wraps in tact. Levels into neck or better
After stumbling over some wines I thought were high class Bordeaux, I nailed this wine in one of the blind tastings for this article. In most tastings where a great Bordeaux is inserted with California Cabernets, the Bordeaux comes across as drier, more austere, and not nearly as rich and concentrated (California wines are inevitably fruitier and more massive). To put it mildly, the 1986 Mouton-Rothschild held its own (and then some), in a flight that included the Caymus Special Selection, Stags Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23, Dunn Howell Mountain, and Joseph Phelps Eisele Vineyard. Clearly the youngest looking, most opaque and concentrated wine of the group, it tastes as if it has not budged in development since I first tasted it out of barrel in March, 1987. An enormously concentrated, massive Mouton-Rothschild, comparable in quality, but not style, to the 1982, 1959, and 1945, this impeccably made wine is still in its infancy. Interestingly, when I was in Bordeaux several years ago, I had this wine served to me blind from a magnum that had been opened and decanted 48 hours previously. Even then, it still tasted like a barrel sample! I suspect the 1986 Mouton-Rothschild requires a minimum of 15-20 more years of cellaring; it has the potential to last for 50-100 years! Given the outrageously high prices being fetched by so many of the great 1982s and 1990s (and lest I forget, the 1995 Bordeaux futures), it appears this wine might still be one of the "relative bargains" in the fine wine marketplace. I wonder how many readers will be in shape to drink it when it does finally reach full maturity?
The tasting notes for this section are from two single blind tastings, one conducted in May, 1996, in California, and the other in June, 1996, in Baltimore. 100p
12 bottles per lot
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Please note that the Buyer's Premium for wine differs from the standard premium and is calculated at 18.15 percent of the hammer price up to and including EUR 150,000.
AN IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF OUTSTANDING BORDEAUX FROM A DUTCH CELLAR
The wine auctions have since October 1976 formed an important part of Christie's Amsterdam. Over the years numerous wine collections have been auctioned developing from a local to a very international clientele.
For this special sale we have selected a small range of outstanding Bordeaux wines together with a noted Dutch collector where in this particular vintage the producer has excelled in quality and made a wine which for this specific Chateau is legendary. We provide you a change to acquire benchmark wines in great provenance.
Mouton Rothschild 1986, Lafleur 1989, Lafite Rothschild 1990 are great classics from high quality vintages.
The cases were opened and inspected by Christie's specialists and removed from the excellent temperature and humidity controlled cellar specifically for this sale. The condition of these wines is the best proof of the pristine storage.
Offered in original wooden cases
AN IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF OUTSTANDING BORDEAUX FROM A DUTCH CELLAR
The wine auctions have since October 1976 formed an important part of Christie's Amsterdam. Over the years numerous wine collections have been auctioned developing from a local to a very international clientele.
For this special sale we have selected a small range of outstanding Bordeaux wines together with a noted Dutch collector where in this particular vintage the producer has excelled in quality and made a wine which for this specific Chateau is legendary. We provide you a change to acquire benchmark wines in great provenance.
Mouton Rothschild 1986, Lafleur 1989, Lafite Rothschild 1990 are great classics from high quality vintages.
The cases were opened and inspected by Christie's specialists and removed from the excellent temperature and humidity controlled cellar specifically for this sale. The condition of these wines is the best proof of the pristine storage.
Offered in original wooden cases
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