—– FR
Bonjour à tous,
J'ai récupéré ici quelques bouteilles qui ont appartenu à mes grands-parents. Pour être tout à fait honnête, je ne pense pas qu'elles aient été bien conservées. Elles ont tout de même passé une partie de leur vie en cave, mais elles n'étaient ni contrôlées ni manipulées.
En toute franchise, c'est pour savoir si je commets un crime de lèse-majesté en m'en débarrassant ou si elles ont encore un quelconque intérêt ?
Merci à vous !
—– EN
Hello everyone,
I’ve come across some bottles here that belonged to my grandparents. To be completely honest, I don’t think they were well preserved. They did spend part of their life in a cellar, but they weren’t monitored or handled.
Honestly, I just want to know if I'm committing a crime by getting rid of them or if they still have any interest or value?
Thank you!
by Goulbi
5 Comments
The golden ones labeled Sauternes might be about $40/btl. The rest are probably gone, but give them to a wine drinking friend
At least try them!
The sauternes, champagne nv and bordeaux can be fun. The bourgogne is good for the sink
Some of these are very interesting.
1. Ch Camperos is unclear. Is there any vintage indication anywhere? I would be very interested in trying it at the very least. I have a hunch the winery doesn’t exist anymore, but it seems like it might be owned by Ch Cloisot ([www.cloisot.com](http://www.cloisot.com)) now, per Stephen Brook.
2. The 1967 Climens is pretty indestructible, and it looks quite bright (not very brown) for a 1967. The cork looks iffy, but the fill is pretty high so it didn’t fail completely. It might have non-trivial value despite of the storage conditions – check with [https://www.idealwine.com/fr/vendre-mes-vins](https://www.idealwine.com/fr/vendre-mes-vins)
3. The Piper Heidsiecks are probably past it, but would be of interest to a wine geek.
4. The Bourgogne 1976 is almost certainly past it. The first wine I would expect is dead. Doesn’t hurt to try of course.
5. 1970 Graves, like (3.). Fill is not great but not bad.
6. I have no idea what the label-less wines after that are. Maybe you can write out what it says on the sides of the corks?
7. Then comes another label-less, but is that capsule is right, it’s an old Rieussec – like (2.)
Do not throw these away. That would be a real shame. Either talk to people at idealwine (France-based online auction site specialising in wine) – not so much because you can make a lot of money (the Climens would be the bulk of it probably, and maybe €100 if you’re lucky), but because there are wine geeks out there who would be excited to try these. It’s definitely more interest than value.
The storage conditions actually seem to have been pretty good. Old French houses have surprisingly good caves – I’ve gotten to taste quite a lot of random stuff from quite a few of them and the hit rate was shockingly high.
Buvez-les, mon cher.