Food & Gourmet
Bottle of 1961 Chateau Beychevelle Bordeaux
- Item Number
- 253
- Estimated Value
- 500 USD
- Sold
- 467 USD to tmd658cab
- Number of Bids
- 31 - Bid History
Item Description
Enjoy this rare Bordeaux, rated 89/100 by Wine Spectator, from the Saint-Julien wine region.
Wine notes: Fourth Growth. Quatrieme Grand Cru Classe in 1855. Indicative blend: 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.
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About Saint-Julien:
Saint-Julien is a small but important appellation of the Haut-Medoc district of Bordeaux in south-western France. Its reputation is based on its status as a reliable source of consistently elegant, age-worthy wines. Sandwiched between the more famous appellations of Pauillac and Margaux, Saint-Julien is sometimes unfairly overlooked because it does not have a first-growth chateau.
Almost every acre of the Saint-Julien commune is covered with vines, except for a strip about 1640ft (500m) wide on the silted banks of the Gironde estuary to the west. The chateaux which own them can be split into two neat groups: those around the village of Saint-Julien-Beychevelle and those around the village of Beychevelle. These two similarly named villages are only 1.5 miles (2km) apart, which illustrates the smallness of scale that operates in the Medoc. In fact, the vineyards in the north of Saint-Julien back directly onto the vineyards of Chateau Latour in Pauillac, yet the wines they produce are different in both status and style.
Donated By:
Bob and Barbara Holland
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