Bids Close 5pm (Adelaide time)
Tuesday March 8 2005
1 bottle CH LAFITE ROTHSCHILD 1961 1er Cru Pauillac (VHS, stained label, badly torn capsule)
Tasting Note: There is finesse in spades. CC 19.5/20 #230. Drink now to 2008.
1 bottle CH LATOUR 1982 1er Cru Pauillac
Tasting Note: Very pure, very rich, very classy. Full, rich & tannic. CC 19.5/20 #213. RP 100/100 #129. Drink now to 2020+.
1 bottle CH MARGAUX 1961 1er Cru Margaux (VHS, aged label, torn capsule)
Tasting Note: But lush & succulent. Lots of vigour. Very fine. CC 18.5/20 #204. Drink now to 2010.
1 bottle CH MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1982 1er Cru Pauillac
Tasting Note: Immature, full bodied with good depth & class, long, vigourous & class. CC 19.5/20 #213, while Parker gave it a 100/100. Drink 2008 to 2040.
1 bottle CH d'YQUEM Sauternes 1975 (level just into neck, weeping & damaged capsule)
Tasting Note: The 1975 may turn out to be the greatest of the modern-day d'Yquems. RP 99pts Bordeaux 3rd Ed.Drink now to 2025.
1 half bottle FARMER BROS Rutherglen Auction Museum Collection Cask 167 Muscat Gordo Blanco Essence 1948.
1 half bottle Penfolds Shiraz 1952 - Red Wine Clinic 2004.
Believed to be Grange, first commercially released vintage. Very Rare.
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 50 Grange 1957 - One of the Hidden Grange (HS, no capsule, label good for age).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1965 - JWT (VVHS).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1965 - JWT (VVHS, cellar stained label).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1967 - JWT (VVHS, cellar stained label).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1967 - JWT (VVHS, minor stained label, minor torn capsule).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1967 - JWT (VHS, cellar stained label).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1967 - JWT (VHS, cellar stained label, minor weeping cork).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1967 - JWT (HS, cellar scuffed & wrinkled label).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1968 (level just into neck, cellar stained & scuffed label).
1 bottle PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange 1968 (VVHS, minor scuffed label, minor torn capsule).
