Sauterne Chateau d'Yquem 1971

That would be "Sauternes"

Please take this as a friendly message: do you intend to drink them or sell them? We tend to discuss the former, and for the latter you have professionals that can give you an estimate.

Please note, on IHV we get at least one message a day from people that have never before posted but have found a stash of goodies in their granfather's attic, for this purpose I prepared an automated value calculator that can fulfill all these requests with great precision. It is in italian, so Giorgio, you will find it very user friendly

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As to what you may realise, that depends on how/where/if you can sell them (by auction or otherwise) in Italy or elsewhere in the EU.

At auction, you may fetch about 50%-60% of retail for wines with verifiable provenance.

Time to fix an english version, methinks ;)

Thank you very much

Where are these wines located?---Country, city.

If they are in Europe--I'm sure Sr. Tomassi can assist you In the US I know of a merchant in Maryland who collects d'Yquem and charges his friends a reasonable price for older bottles. I've bought many older wines from him If I recall the 1971 is wonderful, don't recall the 1977--I had a d'Yquem vertical tasting in the early 1980s--I don't think the 1977 was there--you need to keep at least one bottle of the 1971--the 1977 was not a good year for any sauterne but its a d'Yquem and quantifiably better than any of sauterne from that vintage. You may want to insist that any buyer purchase both vintages once you determine current prices.

The 1971 is one of the wines I'd have if I only had a few months to live.............

Splendid, now I know that my Ch. Latour 1970 is worth all of 36.75 Euro - do you really say Euri in Italy? :-) Anders

Well, you have been gifted one of the most age-worthy, and supreme white wines in the world. Your Godfather must be very proud of you, and has excellent tastes in wines.

As has been stated, the '71 is an excellent wine, and any d'Yequem is going to be good. They abstain from producing it in BAD years, so the '77 will most likely be great.

As some have stated, I would strongly suggest that you keep half of each case, if you do sell. The storage will dictate the price, but Sauternes are very hearty wines. If it were me, I could not part with a single bottle, especially as they were a well-thoughtout gift, but that is just me. I would locate tons of goose liver, sear it, and serve it in a thousand different ways, just to sample this wine, over, and over, and over. (Some here might shy away from the goose liver with Sauternes, but I AM a big fan. That is why the waistband on my trousers keeps expanding!)

One question: are these 0.375, or 0.750? The aging potential might be a bit higher with the 0.750's, though either should be great.

Send the most heartfelt and gracious thank you to your Godfather.

Hunt

PS if you are ever in the SW of the USA, I will be glad to take a few bottles of each off of you, or, at worst, provide the goose livers, and drink a few with you!