1999 Pavie

Why not go the horse's mouth?

Corks can be fascinating. Corks drawn recently from 2 Louis Jadot Beaune bottles informed me 1) that the straight Beaune bottle was in fact a 1er Cru, and 2) gave me the vineyard of what was on the label an anonymous Beaune 1er Cru. Either that or they just had some corks lying around that needed to be used up!

could there be counterfeits?

That was my suspicion, but the wines _tasted_ OK. If they were counterfeits, they were passably decent phonies.

Tom S

Tom, It sounds like the two bottles came from different sources, which certainly raises the specter of counterfeiting. In what ways were the back labels different? Different importers? Was one hand-carried from France? You might want to contact the Chateau with your question.

Mark Lipton

I just opened your link and saw the corks.

There is no reason to beleive that someone would go that far to counterfeit a wine and lay it down for a while....or maybe if Chateaux Margaux 1995 it would be.

That said I remember have similar suspicians years ago with Rauzan or Rausan Segla who make the change in spelling mid bottling in early 90's or late

Eventually I found out that they had different labels and used all their base stock and then switched mid year.

It can very well be possible that the chateau buys corks from different suppliers that do the cork branding with different irons. One looks like an older, the other like a newer model.

What I'd do is to contact the chateau and ask.

M.