OLD FRENCH WINES

Best resource is probably winesearcher.com. Figure if you're selling privately, you'll probably be looking at values about 20-25% below lowest retail (if you can show decent storage-less otherwise). '70 Mouton should be valuable, and La Dominique and Boyd-Cantenac might get interest. Ch. Marguax is a 1st growth,but '69 was dreadful. Could Spulard be Soutard?

Thanks for suggestion and comments. Yes, you're right, it should read "Soutard".

André

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as for values you need professional advice from a specialist auctioneer or purchaser but if you can keep them and drink them my comments on the wines of the Jurisdiction would be:

almost certainly dead, I fear. A generic even from a good year like this will not be worth anything.

I strongly suspect that this is Ch. Soutard, in which case it will almost certainly be wonerful if it has been well kept. I have very happy memories of asking M de Ligneris a question during a visit, four or five years ago to Soutard and his response of "Wait a minute and I'll show you what I mean." followed by a short disappearance and return with two bottles of 1953 to prove his point. These are traditional well made wines of both power and elegance.

This Chateau improved dramatically under M. Fayat. Next to Cheval Blanc with some of its soil sharing the same make up. Certainly at the time this was made M Fayat had been there about 6 or 7 years and had started a programme of modernisation and investment with the wine already improving in consequence. This does not seem to be one of the chateaux where Michel Rolland's advice has ever been so controversial as in some cases. In any event this wine, from another good year, pre-dates such concerns.