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Lot 93
Petrus 1961
Closed10 October 2018
Price Realised
GBP 62,400
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Petrus 1961
Pomerol, cru exceptionnel
One slightly corroded capsule. Four with 'Daniel Querre, Libourne' slip labels. Slightly bin-soiled labels. One damaged and four slightly damaged labels. Levels: two upper-shoulder and three mid to upper-shoulder.
Tasting note: For some time, and understandably, one of the stars if the saleroom. Though I first tasted it in 1967, I only awoke to its magnificent, amazing fruit, and velvety richness in 1978 and made eight glowing notes through the 1980s. Colour ‘black as Egypt’s night’, opulent, ‘rich, rich, rich’ , spicy, even peppery (alcohol), chunky yet velvety, with soft ripe mulberry-like fruit, fleshy, ‘almost cloying’, a ‘railroad chairman’s wine’ - which sounded a rather old-fashioned expression: well, an oil-rich potentate or tycoon’s wine, for the reason that you do not have to be an expert to appreciate this wine, you wallow in it; and you have to have that sort of wealth to have it in your cellar, let alone to order it in a restaurant. But I must stop being condescending. It is a superb, almost unbeatable mouthful. Of my two most recent notes, one will have to be dismissed as it was presented as a dinner party in January 2000 as ‘believed to be P\aetrus 1961’. It had a phoney-looking wax capsule and cork branded 1988! Back to 1994 for a superb bottle, sweet, exceedingly full -body and fruit. A luscious mountain of a wine. Noted blind, at Wolf’s tasting of ‘61s and ‘59s in Aschau, Nov 1994 ***** and no end in sight. M.B.
5 magnum per lot
Pomerol, cru exceptionnel
One slightly corroded capsule. Four with 'Daniel Querre, Libourne' slip labels. Slightly bin-soiled labels. One damaged and four slightly damaged labels. Levels: two upper-shoulder and three mid to upper-shoulder.
Tasting note: For some time, and understandably, one of the stars if the saleroom. Though I first tasted it in 1967, I only awoke to its magnificent, amazing fruit, and velvety richness in 1978 and made eight glowing notes through the 1980s. Colour ‘black as Egypt’s night’, opulent, ‘rich, rich, rich’ , spicy, even peppery (alcohol), chunky yet velvety, with soft ripe mulberry-like fruit, fleshy, ‘almost cloying’, a ‘railroad chairman’s wine’ - which sounded a rather old-fashioned expression: well, an oil-rich potentate or tycoon’s wine, for the reason that you do not have to be an expert to appreciate this wine, you wallow in it; and you have to have that sort of wealth to have it in your cellar, let alone to order it in a restaurant. But I must stop being condescending. It is a superb, almost unbeatable mouthful. Of my two most recent notes, one will have to be dismissed as it was presented as a dinner party in January 2000 as ‘believed to be P\aetrus 1961’. It had a phoney-looking wax capsule and cork branded 1988! Back to 1994 for a superb bottle, sweet, exceedingly full -body and fruit. A luscious mountain of a wine. Noted blind, at Wolf’s tasting of ‘61s and ‘59s in Aschau, Nov 1994 ***** and no end in sight. M.B.
5 magnum per lot
Petrus 1961
Pomerol, cru exceptionnel
One slightly corroded capsule. Four with 'Daniel Querre, Libourne' slip labels. Slightly bin-soiled labels. One damaged and four slightly damaged labels. Levels: two upper-shoulder and three mid to upper-shoulder.
Tasting note: For some time, and understandably, one of the stars if the saleroom. Though I first tasted it in 1967, I only awoke to its magnificent, amazing fruit, and velvety richness in 1978 and made eight glowing notes through the 1980s. Colour ‘black as Egypt’s night’, opulent, ‘rich, rich, rich’ , spicy, even peppery (alcohol), chunky yet velvety, with soft ripe mulberry-like fruit, fleshy, ‘almost cloying’, a ‘railroad chairman’s wine’ - which sounded a rather old-fashioned expression: well, an oil-rich potentate or tycoon’s wine, for the reason that you do not have to be an expert to appreciate this wine, you wallow in it; and you have to have that sort of wealth to have it in your cellar, let alone to order it in a restaurant. But I must stop being condescending. It is a superb, almost unbeatable mouthful. Of my two most recent notes, one will have to be dismissed as it was presented as a dinner party in January 2000 as ‘believed to be P\aetrus 1961’. It had a phoney-looking wax capsule and cork branded 1988! Back to 1994 for a superb bottle, sweet, exceedingly full -body and fruit. A luscious mountain of a wine. Noted blind, at Wolf’s tasting of ‘61s and ‘59s in Aschau, Nov 1994 ***** and no end in sight. M.B.
5 magnum per lot
Pomerol, cru exceptionnel
One slightly corroded capsule. Four with 'Daniel Querre, Libourne' slip labels. Slightly bin-soiled labels. One damaged and four slightly damaged labels. Levels: two upper-shoulder and three mid to upper-shoulder.
Tasting note: For some time, and understandably, one of the stars if the saleroom. Though I first tasted it in 1967, I only awoke to its magnificent, amazing fruit, and velvety richness in 1978 and made eight glowing notes through the 1980s. Colour ‘black as Egypt’s night’, opulent, ‘rich, rich, rich’ , spicy, even peppery (alcohol), chunky yet velvety, with soft ripe mulberry-like fruit, fleshy, ‘almost cloying’, a ‘railroad chairman’s wine’ - which sounded a rather old-fashioned expression: well, an oil-rich potentate or tycoon’s wine, for the reason that you do not have to be an expert to appreciate this wine, you wallow in it; and you have to have that sort of wealth to have it in your cellar, let alone to order it in a restaurant. But I must stop being condescending. It is a superb, almost unbeatable mouthful. Of my two most recent notes, one will have to be dismissed as it was presented as a dinner party in January 2000 as ‘believed to be P\aetrus 1961’. It had a phoney-looking wax capsule and cork branded 1988! Back to 1994 for a superb bottle, sweet, exceedingly full -body and fruit. A luscious mountain of a wine. Noted blind, at Wolf’s tasting of ‘61s and ‘59s in Aschau, Nov 1994 ***** and no end in sight. M.B.
5 magnum per lot