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Can anyone identify this wine?

I purchased a bottle of wine (at least I think it's wine) at a garage sale and am trying to identify it. Thanks for any help. Here's the only details I have: the glass bottle is cast or embossed (?) with the word "bernardine" with a cross above it. The labels are mostly gone and quite old. There's a label just under the cork that has a bunch of latin on it and is hard to read. On the back are the words "distributed by Kraus Bros., New York, N.Y." Thanks for any help as to what this might be. If it's worth $300 or less I'll just drink the damn thing.

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Steve
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snipped-for-privacy@att.net (Steve) wrote in news:cba22c64.0310262111.7b5f9a60 @posting.google.com:

is there raised glass with two crossed keys? If so you have for certain a bottle of Chapoutier's La Bernardine Chateau neuf du Pape, but don't expect much from a bottle in that condition. and no I doubt highly if it is worth $3 much less 300

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jcoulter

Indeed, the only Bernadine I know of. Usually a decent enough CdP, retails for about $20US. Definitely on the "drink-young" side of the CdP scale, not one of the big ones that closes down and ages. Even with perfect storage, I'd be leery of a la Bernadine more than 10 years old. With no provenance, $3 is about right.

Steve, while I wouldn't have high hopes, it certainly won't hurt to try it. Let us know. Vintage will probably be on cork. Maybe you'll get lucky and it's an '89 or something, *might* just be a good wine.

Dale

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Dale Williams

Well I opened the bottle and took a sip. The cork had already fallen in and decomposed somewhat. But it tastes great. I know nothing about liquor but it tastes like a fortified wine or a brandy or a liquer. Fruity and spicy. Thanks everybody for the info. I just hope I'm not drinking a 500 year old bottle that I could have sold for a million dollars! Does anyone know when the Bernardine Monastery (I assume that's where this was made) started making wine? Do any of their bottles go for a big money?

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Steve

Well, the fact that it had an obscure NY distributors label on it probably diminishes likelihood of it being a special ancient bottle. Plus using special bottles and corks didn't become common till a few hundred years ago. And "big money" is spent only for recognizable wines- I've never heard of anything from a "Bernadine Monastery". You're pretty safe, I seriously doubt you could have gotten $10 for it. :) Dale

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