1 Château Cheval Blanc - Vintage 1979
St. Emilion
sdc (Wines Located in New York)
"Similar to the 85 with its upfront bell pepper and touches of milk, earth and beef. There was also a pinch of szechuan; 79 seemed like the 85 s little brother, possessing less overall of everything. It got greener in the glass and revealed wintergreen flavors. It lacked length, but was still very good. Pierre admired the 79, citing that acidity is the backbone of wine..."(90pts JK)
1 bottle per lot $200-280
2 Château Latour - Vintage 1979
Pauillac
sdc (Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $260-350
3 Château Margaux - Vintage 1999
Margaux
lbsl (Wines Located in New York)
"The wine reveals the vintage's flamboyant side in its sweet, blackberry, and cassis-scented nose. With airing, spicy vanillin and toast notes also emerge. Soft and full-bodied, there is admirable density behind the wine's superficial display of charm. The vintage's high sugars have resulted in nearly 13% alcohol."(94pts)
1 bottle per lot $300-400
4 Château Mouton Rothschild - Vintage 1998
Pauillac
(Wines Located in New York)
"It is an extremely powerful, super-concentrated wine offering notes of roasted espresso, creme de cassis, smoke, new saddle leather, graphite, and licorice. It is massive, with awesome concentration, mouth-searing tannin levels, and a saturated flavor profile that grips the mouth with considerable intensity. This is a 50-year Mouton."(96pts)
1 bottle per lot $320-450
5 Château Troplong Mondot - Vintage 1990
St. Emilion
(Wines Located in New York)
"...chocolatey, blackcurrant, weedy tobacco-scented noses, and classic, full-bodied, powerful flavors massive finishes that coat the mouth with extract, glycerin, and tannin so opaque that it is impossible to see through spectacular efforts from one of St.- milion's most noteworthy overachievers.."(98pts)
1 bottle per lot $200-280
6 Clos Vougeot - Vintage 1990
Le Grand Maupertui, A. & F. Gros
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $220-300
7 Charmes Chambertin - Vintage 1993
C. Dugat
(Wines Located in New York)
"The Charmes-Chambertin (165 cases for the world) boasts layers of flavor, a saturated deep ruby/purple color, a huge attack, considerable tannin and muscle, as well as an inner sweetness and that profound mid-palate not found in many 1993s. This wine has it all - ripeness, richness, structure, purity, and complexity."(96pts)
1 bottle per lot $450-600
8 Échézeaux - Vintage 1996
Domaine de la Romanée Conti
bsl (Wines Located in New York)
"This medium-to-dark ruby-colored wine has gorgeous floral, perfumed, spicy, and refined aromatics. Its medium-bodied and silky-textured palate offers a fabulous burst of sweet cherries, candied strawberries, and violets. This lively, highly-defined wine also possesses a firm, supple-tannined structure that should allow it to age gracefully for years."(90-2pts)
1 bottle per lot $750-1000
9 Échézeaux - Vintage 1995
E. Rouget
(Wines Located in New York)
"Medium-to-dark ruby-colored, the silky Échézeaux (175 cases for the world) is an intensely refined and delineated wine. Revealing cinnamon and red currants in its aromas, this is a thick, awesomely textured, jammy yet well-defined wine."(92-94pts)
1 bottle per lot $400-550
10 Volnay - Vintage 2004
Les Taillepeids, Marquis d'Angerville
bsl (Wines Located in New York)
1 magnum per lot $120-160
11 Charmes Chambertin - Vintage 2006
Perrot-Minot
(Wines Located in New York)
1 4.5 liter per lot $900-1200
12 Volnay - Vintage 1990
Les Caillerets, Pousse d'Or
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $120-160
13 Meursault - Vintage 2007
Vireuils, Vieilles Vignes, Coche-Dury
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $160-220
14 Puligny Montrachet - Vintage 2001
Les Enseigneres, Coche-Dury
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $350-500
15 Chablis - Vintage 2002
Fourchaume, Fevre
(Wines Located in New York)
"Very ripe aromas of apricot and peach. Thick, dense and ripe, with a sweetness of fruit that almost suggests some residual sugar. And yet this comes across as less exotic than "regular" Fourchaume thanks to its strong underlying minerality. Very rich, fat wine with grand cru texture and a long, highly aromatic finish."(92pts IWC)
1 bottle per lot $35-50
16 Châteauneuf du Pape - Vintage 1998
cuvée de Capo, Domaine du Pegau
(Wines Located in New York)
"The aromas begin slowly, but then roar from the glass like an out-of-control locomotive, offering up a smorgasbord of candied black fruits, pepper, garrigue, earth, and truffles. Enormously thick and rich, but, amazingly, not heavy, this blockbuster, full-bodied Châteauneuf-du-Pape is still youthful, but should age gracefully for three decades. The cuvée da Capo is frightfully expensive by Châteauneuf-du-Pape standards, but if quality like this existed in Burgundy, consumers would be willing to pay $500 a bottle."(100pts)
1 bottle per lot $320-450
17 Hermitage - Vintage 2003
J.L. Chave
(Wines Located in New York)
"...has acquired extraordinary minerality as well as definition since I first tasted it 12 months earlier. Its inky/purple color is accompanied by glorious aromas of creme de cassis, black cherries, licorice, crushed rocks, and flowers. Prodigiously rich and full-bodied yet elegant and fresh, this is a tour de force in winemaking."(100pts)
1 bottle per lot $400-600
18 Hermitage - Vintage 2004
J.L. Chave
(Wines Located in New York)
"...Incredibly sweet and minerally, like a great Griotte-Chambertin, with amazing purity of cherry and raspberry fruit. A great '04 in the making."(95-96pts IWC)
1 bottle per lot $130-170
19 Pouilly Fume - Vintage 2007
Blanc Fume de Pouilly, D. Dagueneau
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $75-100
20 Pouilly Fume - Vintage 2011
Silex, D. Dagueneau
(Wines Located in New York)
"A delightfully, pungently intense bouquet of hedge flowers and resinous herbs rises from the glass of Dagueneau 2011 Blanc Fume de Pouilly Silex, anticipating the bittersweet presence of herbal essences and inner-mouth floral perfume that are allied to nut and citrus oils on a dense, subtly oleaginous palate."(92-93+pts)
1 bottle per lot $90-120
21 Riesling Smaragd - Vintage 2010
Durnsteiner Kellerberg, F.X. Pichler
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $40-60
22 Barbaresco - Vintage 2003
Asili, B. Giacosa
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $70-100
23 Barolo - Vintage 1943
Monfortino Riserva, G. Conterno
bn, fl, sdc, excellent color (Wines Located in New
York)
1 bottle per lot $600-800
24 Masseto - Vintage 1995
Tenuta dell' Ornellaia
(Wines Located in New York)
"A superb single-vineyard Merlot from a high-quality Tuscan producer, the 1995 Masseto vino da tavola exhibits a saturated dark ruby/purple color, in addition to a sweet nose of jammy black cherries, chocolate, and smoky new oak. The vintage's high tannin level is present, but it is complemented by admirable concentration, glycerin, and spice."(91pts)
1 bottle per lot $500-700
25 Ornellaia - Vintage 1999
Tenuta dell' Ornellaia
(Wines Located in New York)
"Wow. Currants, berries, cherries and minerals, but all subtlety. Full- to medium-bodied, with silky tannins and a long finish. Complex wine."(94pts WS)
1 bottle per lot $150-200
26 Sassicaia - Vintage 2004
Tenuta San Guido
(Wines Located in New York)
"...is a lovely, understated effort. Medium in body, it presents nuanced layers of sweet dark fruit, licorice, menthol and toasted oak that gradually open onto a finely-knit frame of notable length. Today it appears to be quite reticent and still holding back much of its potential. Both bottles I sampled showed less vibrancy and freshness in both color and flavors than the other top 2004s I tasted alongside it, suggesting that the wine is still suffering from bottle shock."(93pts)
1 bottle per lot $150-200
27 Vega Sicilia Unico - Vintage 1975
bsl, outstanding color and condition (Wines Located
in New York)
"1975 has always been one of Vega Sicilia's great vintages, and this tasting confirmed that the 1975 Unico Riserva has the potential to be one of this historic winery's finest offerings. The wine's beautiful, saturated, dense ruby/purple color is followed by a tight but rich nose of black and red fruits, spices, and toasty oak. Deep, with huge body and massive flavor extraction, this wine combines awesome power and richness with considerable structure and delineation."(96pts)
1 bottle per lot $450-600
28 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon - Vintage 1997
Special Selection
(Wines Located in New York)
"This banner year's Special Selection is smooth, rich and concentrated, with layers of currant, mocha, black cherry and wild berry, fairly gushing at midpalate. The finish is long, rich, and intricate."(95pts WS)
1 bottle per lot $140-180
29 Dominus - Vintage 2003
(Wines Located in New York)
"A big, sweet nose of roasted coffee, Provencal herbs, black currants, cherry jam, plums, allspice, and forest floor is followed by a spicy, rich, full-bodied, fragrant, intense wine. The tannins are sweet, but noticeable in this beautifully complex, strikingly aromatic 2003."(95pts)
1 bottle per lot $90-120
30 Peter Michael Red - Vintage 1998
Les Pavots
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $150-200
31 Kistler Pinot Noir - Vintage 2007
cuvée Catherine, Occidental Station Vineyard
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $200-240
32 Kistler Pinot Noir - Vintage 2003
cuvée Elizabeth
(Wines Located in New York)
"...reveals raspberry, pomegranate, cherry, and plum notes, crisp, tart acidity, some flowery characteristics, a lovely, medium-bodied mid-palate, and a good finish with vibrant acidity."(92-95pts)
1 bottle per lot $150-200
33 Kosta Browne Pinot Noir - Vintage 2004
Cohn Vineyard
(Wines Located in New York)
"A remarkable Pinot. Broad, rich and opulent, with a firm tannic backbone supporting ripe black cherry, blackberry, mineral, sage, herb and tea notes that border on syrupy. Tightens up on the finish, with ripe tannins giving it a rich, complex aftertaste."(97pts WS)
1 bottle per lot $180-240
34 Peter Michael Pinot Noir - Vintage 2009
Le Caprice
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $90-120
35 Peter Michael Pinot Noir - Vintage 2011
Le Moulin Rouge
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $80-120
36 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon - Vintage 2002
(Wines Located in New York)
"Dark ruby-colored and sporting a nose of violets, sweet blueberries, dark cherries, and slight undertones of asphalt, the 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon blossoms on the palate to expose a wine of ethereal delicacy yet immense power. Medium to full-bodied, it expands to reveal concentrated layers of cassis, blackberries, red cherries, raspberries, violets, spices, and touches of candied plums. This rich, exquisitely balanced, sweet, and broad wine is harmonious, graceful, and awesomely long."(100pts)
1 bottle per lot $150-200
37 Penfold's Grange - Vintage 1997
(Wines Located in New York)
"... looks to be a classic Grange. The wine has a saturated purple color and a gorgeously sweet nose of blackberry liqueur intermixed with cherries, camphor, chocolate, plum, and mocha. The wine is opulently textured, extremely soft, layered, and seductive, with Grange's tell-tale personality well-displayed, but in a seamless, seductive style."(94pts)
1 bottle per lot $260-400
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38 Brunello di Montalcino - Vintage 1997
Vigna di Pianrosso, Riserva, Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona
lwrl (Wines Located in New York)
"Its deep garnet color is accompanied by a big, sweet nose of melted asphalt, truffles, soy, tobacco, leather, and glorious quantities of red currant and black cherry fruit. Dense, ripe, layered, and sweet, it may not be as exuberant as the regular bottling, but it is a brilliant effort nevertheless. This is one 1997 Brunello that lives up to the vintage's reputation."(93pts)
1 bottle per lot $120-160
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39 Château Grand Puy Lacoste - Vintage 1995
Pauillac
(Wines Located in New York)
"...this gorgeously proportioned, medium to full-bodied, fabulously ripe, rich, cassis-scented and flavored Grand-Puy-Lacoste is a beauty."(95pts)
6 bottles per lot $600-800
40 Château L'Eglise Clinet - Vintage 1975
Pomerol
1bn, 3bsl, 3sdc, outstanding color and condition
(Wines Located in New York)
"...extremely youthful with a thick, dark ruby/purple color with no signs of age. Sweet and expansive, with jammy fruit, huge body, and tannin..."(92pts)
3 bottles per lot $500-700
41 Château Rauzan Segla - Vintage 1994
Margaux
(Wines Located in New York)
"Fabulous aromas of vanilla, toasted oak and fruit, ultrafine tannins and a long, caressing finish. All in finesse."(90pts WS)
10 bottles per lot $450-600
42 Château Laville Haut Brion - Vintage 1997
Graves
(Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $300-400
43 Nuits St. Georges - Vintage 2010
Clos de la Marechale, J.F. Mugnier
(Wines Located in New York)
"...shows marvelous depth and the richness to match its decidedly powerful, virile personality. This has tons of fruit and muscle, yet also possesses the fabulous inner perfume and mineral-driven energy that is such a signature of the vintage."(91-93pts)
6 bottles per lot $400-600
44 Nuits St. Georges - Vintage 2003
Les Boudots, L. Jadot
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $30-50
45 Volnay - Vintage 2010
Clos de la Bousse d'Or, Pousse d'Or
(Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $200-280
46 Volnay - Vintage 2010
Clos des 60 Ouvrees, Pousse d'Or
(Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $220-300
47 Riesling Auslese - Vintage 1976
Schloss Vollrads
4bsl, 1tl (Wines Located in New York)
4 bottles per lot $400-600
48 Jean Leon Cabernet Sauvignon - Vintage 1997
4bn, 4bsl, 4tal, 4sdc, 2nc, outstanding color (Wines
Located in New York)
4 bottles per lot $80-110
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49 Château Angelus - Vintage 2001
St. Emilion
(Wines Located in New York)
"It has shed much of its tannin, and seems far more evolved and open-knit than I thought prior to bottling. Its deep purple color is followed by a rich nose of creosote, charcoal, blackberries, plums, cassis, and espresso roast."(93pts)
2 bottles per lot $350-480
50 Château Calon Segur - Vintage 1985
St. Estephe
1bn, 1ts, 2lbsl, 2sdc (Wines Located in New York)
2 bottles per lot $140-180
51 Château Calon Segur - Vintage 1998
St. Estephe
3lbsl, 2ll (Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $150-200
52 Château Calon Segur - Vintage 2005
St. Estephe
2lscl (Wines Located in New York)