Cellar Distribution-One step further

Hope in five years I can have something even close to some of the cellars listed in "Cellar Distribution".

For argument sake or just plain curiosity, if a natural disaster was coming your way and you could save only one bottle; what would your choice be ladies and gentlemen?

Larry Southern Ontario

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Larry
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1983 or 1989 Chateau Margaux....like anything else I would break the rules and take both.

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dick
1990 La Tache, simply b/c it is my most expensive bottle.
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George Cutshaw

I would save 1945 Mouton-Rothschild, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Bordeaux that still is in top form. If the choice were extended to one bottle of each type of wine, I also would save 1985 Romanee-Conti, 1949 Rauenthaler Baiken TBA(state), 1971 Wehlener Sonnenuhr TBA(J.J.Prum), 1888 Tokaji Essencia(Baron Beust), 1875 Bastardo Vintage Madeira(Cossart Gordon), 1931 Vintage Port(Quinta do Noval), 1791or 1806 Constantia. If these eight could be extended to one case, I would add 1945 Latour, 1949 Musigny Vieilles Vignes(de Vogue),

1983 Scharzhofberger Eiswein(Egon Muller), 1989 Cuvee Constance Vouvray(Huet).
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Cwdjrx _

If those wines are in your cellar I weep with envy! As for me I couldn't decide between the best white wine I've ever had (Ch. d'Yquem 1990) or the best red wine (Ch. Beaucastel Hommage Jacques Perrin 1998) so would grab the one nearest to the door (the d'Yquem).

Siobhan

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Siobhan Leachman

Only one bottle? I guess it'd have to be the double magnum of '99 La Mission then... In all seriousness, the wine that I'd probably choose would be the '82 Gruaud Larose, though it's as much for sentimental as practical reasons... My wife, for similar reasons, would probably choose the '83 Margaux. It'd be tough to leave the '89 Beaucastel behind, however.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

Yes these wines are in my cellar, but mostly only 1 or 2 bottles of each. The older ones were bought at auction many years ago. We live in a very different world now concernig the price structure of wine. When I bought the bottle of 45 Mouton, it was then a very desirable wine and had a high price for the time - a few hundred US$. At the Aulden/Sotheby's auction on 22 Nvember, 6 bottles of the 45 Mouton went for US$ 70500. The search for the Constantia was the most difficult. It took at least 10 years to locate a desirable bottle at auction and win the bid at a price I would be willing to pay. This wine is now so rare that I have no idea what it would sell for today. Auction prices are extremely volatile. If the stock market is doing well at the time and two or more rich bidders are determined to win the bid, the price of a rare bottle can be two or three times higher than on a day that does not result in a bidding war. For fine wines that are sold on a regular basis in the London auction houses, a reasonable price range is fairly easy to establish. I am not collecting rare wines now at the present market prices. You would have to be extremely rich to collect older fine wines today. Also many of these older wines now seldom come up at auction. I think M. Broadbent and others nearly cleaned out all of the old cellars in the UK which were the sorce of many auction wines several years ago. Inheritance taxes became brutal in the UK after WWII, and many of the old large estates had to sell things to pay the taxes, including large wine stocks from their cellars.

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