4189 Barbaresco - Vintage 2003
Valgrande, Ca' Del Baio
(Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $60-80
4190 Langhe - Vintage 1998
Rangone, Ca' Viola
3bn, 3bsl (Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $30-40
4191 Brunello di Montalcino - Vintage 1990
Vigna la Casa, Caparzo
2bsl (Wines Located in New York)
5 bottles per lot $500-700
4192 Barbera d'Asti - Vintage 1999
La Vigna Dell 'Angelo, Cascina La Barbatella
(Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $40-60
4193 Barbaresco
- Vintage 1995 Ovello, Cascina Morassino (1)
(Wines Located in New York)
Cervaro della Sala
- Vintage 1999 Castello della Sala (Antinori) (1)
(Wines Located in New York)
Above 2 bottles per lot $40-60
4194 Vigna L'Apparita - Vintage 1986
Castello di Ama
bsl, wasl, tl (Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $120-160
4195 Vigna L'Apparita - Vintage 1988
Castello di Ama
2bsl, 2wasl (Wines Located in New York)
2 bottles per lot $200-260
4196 Vigna L'Apparita - Vintage 1989
Castello di Ama
2bsl, 2nl (Wines Located in New York)
2 bottles per lot $240-320
4197 Brunello di Montalcino - Vintage 2003
Castiglion del Bosco
(Wines Located in New York)
2 bottles per lot $50-70
4198 Barbaresco - Vintage 2005
Asij, Ceretto
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $40-60
4199 Brunello di Montalcino - Vintage 2001
Vigna di Pianrosso, Riserva, Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona
(Wines Located in New York)
"...opens with a floral, aromatic nose followed by sweet, perfumed red fruit that blossoms onto the palate with notable expansiveness in a superb display of finesse and elegance, closing with fine, supple tannins."(93pts)
1 bottle per lot $50-70
4200 Barolo
- Vintage 2004 G. Borgogno novl (Wines Located (1)
in New York)
Granato
- Vintage 1986 Foradori bn, bsl (Wines Located (1)
in New York)
Vintage Tunina White
- Vintage 1993 Jermann (Wines Located in New (1)
York)
Above 3 bottles per lot $70-100
4201 Vintage Tunina White - Vintage 2004
Venezia-Giulia, Jermann
(Wines Located in New York)
6 bottles per lot $120-160
4202 Lamarein Red - Vintage 2001
Josephus Mayr
(Wines Located in New York)
9 bottles per lot $90-120
4203 Barolo - Vintage 1988
Cannubi Boschis, L. Sandrone
2lbsl (Wines Located in New York)
"...offers an exquisite balance between its evolved aromas of licorice, tar, spices and cocoa and the youthfulness it shows on the palate, where delicate and highly nuanced stewed prune and plum flavors coat the palate with notable vibrancy and freshness."(94pts)
2 bottles per lot $320-420
4204 Barolo - Vintage 1989
Cannubi Boschis, L. Sandrone
(Wines Located in New York)
"...is another treasure to be added to Sandrone's impressive resume. Backward for a 1989, it exhibits a dense purple color, a blossoming nose of smoky new oak, black fruits, and tar, rich, full-bodied, multi-layered flavors, and awesome dimension and persistence in the mouth."(97pts)
2 bottles per lot $600-800
4205 Barolo
- Vintage 1993 Vigna Rionda, Massolino lbsl (1)
(Wines Located in New York)
- Vintage 1996 Prunotto (Wines Located in New (1)
York)
Brunello di Montalcino
- Vintage 2003 L. Sassetti (Wines Located in (1)
New York)
Gavi di Gavi
- Vintage 1999 La Scolca 3scl (Wines Located in (8)
New York)
Il Falcone
- Vintage 2001 Castel Del Monte, Rivera (Wines (1)
Located in New York)
Montepulciano D'Abruzzo
- Vintage 2005 Monti (Wines Located in New (2)
York)
Rosso de Veo
- Vintage 2002 Paolo Bea (Wines Located in (1)
New York)
Above 15 bottles per lot $200-280
4206 Barolo - Vintage 1961
M. Giuseppe
3bsl, 3wasl, excellent color (Wines Located in New
York)
3 bottles per lot $350-500
4207 Amarone - Vintage 1997
Il Velluto, Meroni
(Wines Located in New York)
6 bottles per lot $150-200
4208 Toscana - Vintage 1996
Le Pergole Torte, Montevertine
(Wines Located in New York)
1 magnum per lot $200-280
4209 Brunello di Montalcino - Vintage 1985
Riserva, Poggio Antico
2bsl (Wines Located in New York)
"Intense and lively, with layers of rich raspberry, cedar, anise, plum and coffee flavors that are well integrated, with complexity and finesse. Not overly tannic, and it has a long, lingering finish."(93pts WS)
2 bottles per lot $160-200
4210 Brunello di Montalcino - Vintage 1990
Riserva, Poggio Antico
2bsl (Wines Located in New York)
2 bottles per lot $200-240
4211 Barolo - Vintage 1995
La Serra, R. Voerzio
2bsl (Wines Located in New York)
2 bottles per lot $140-180
4212 1 bottle per lot $70-90
lbsl (Wines Located in New York)
4213 Barolo - Vintage 1989
Vigna d'la Roul Riserva, Rocche dei Manzoni
(Wines Located in New York)
1 magnum per lot $120-160
4214 Chianti Classico
- Vintage 2000 Riserva Ducale, Ruffino (Wines (2)
Located in New York)
- Vintage 2003 Le Bocce, S. Farina nl (Wines (1)
Located in New York)
- Vintage 2005 Riserva Ducale, Ruffino (Wines (1)
Located in New York)
Pinot Grigio
- Vintage 1999 Santa Margherita (Wines Located half-bottle (1)
in New York)
- Vintage 2001 Santa Margherita (Wines Located (2)
in New York)
- Vintage 2004 Santa Margherita (Wines Located (2)
in New York)
- Vintage 2006 Santa Margherita (Wines Located (1)
in New York)
- Vintage 2006 Villa Dorretta (Wines Located in (7)
New York)
- Vintage 2007 Santa Margherita (Wines Located (1)
in New York)
Above 1 half-bottle per lot $140-220
and 17 bottles
4215 Brunello di Montalcino - Vintage 1990
Siro Pacenti
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $120-160
4216 Brunello di Montalcino - Vintage 1997
Podere Pian di Conti, Talenti
(Wines Located in New York)
3 magnums per lot $180-240
4217 Castilla y Leon - Vintage 1996
Pago Negralada, Abadia Retuerta
2nl (Wines Located in New York)
2 bottles per lot $60-80
4218 Rioja - Vintage 2000
Contador, B. Romeo
(Wines Located in New York)
4 bottles per lot $600-800
PARCEL LOTS 4219-4220
4219 Rioja - Vintage 1964
Gran Reserva, C. Serres
12bsl, 12scl, excellent color (Wines Located in New
York)
12 bottles per lot $600-800
4220 12 bottles per lot $600-800
12bsl, excellent color (Wines Located
in New York)
4221 11 bottles per lot $550-700
11bsl, 11scl, excellent color (Wines
Located in New York)
4222 10 bottles per lot $500-650
12bsl, 6tl, 3tal, excellent color
(Wines Located in New York)
4223 Priorat - Vintage 2001
Clos Mogador
(Wines Located in New York)
8 bottles per lot $550-700
4224 2 bottles per lot $140-180
(Wines Located in New York)
4225 Priorat - Vintage 2005
Clos Mogador
(Wines Located in New York)
"...deep purple-colored with a superb bouquet of toasty oak, pencil lead, mineral, blackberry and black cherry. This leads to an opulent, dense, packed, structured wine with 6-8 years of aging potential. Super-concentrated, sweetly-fruited, and complex..."(98pts)
1 bottle per lot $60-100
4226 Bryant Family Cabernet Sauvignon - Vintage 1994
wol (Wines Located in New York)
"... is one of those rare wines that possesses awesome aromatic, flavor, and texture dimensions. Totally dry, it comes across as sweet because of its highly extracted, ripe fruit. Opaque purple/black-colored, with a knock-out nose of black fruit (cassis and black-raspberries), this wine hits the palate with phenomenal concentration that brilliantly manages to be neither heavy nor overbearing. Plenty of velvety tannin is concealed behind the fruit's remarkable intensity. The wine's purity, presence, and finish are unbelievable. I predict this wine will turn out to be a legend!"(98pts)
1 bottle per lot $350-500
4227 Koehler Cabernet Sauvignon - Vintage 1999
nl (Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $20-30
4228 Calera Pinot Noir - Vintage 1995
20th Anniversary
(Wines Located in New York)
4 bottles per lot $100-140
4229 Peter Michael Pinot Noir - Vintage 2005
Le Moulin Rouge
3bsl (Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $220-300
4230 Williams Selyem Pinot Noir - Vintage 1992
Olivet Lane
2tl (Wines Located in New York)
6 bottles per lot $320-480
4231 Williams Selyem Pinot Noir - Vintage 1999
Sonoma County
bsl, wasl (Wines Located in New York)
1 magnum per lot $60-80
4232 Acacia Chardonnay
- Vintage 2000 Carneros (Wines Located in New half-bottle (1)
York)
Cambria Chardonnay
- Vintage 2004 Santa Maria Valley (Wines half-bottle (2)
Located in New York)
De Loach Chardonnay
- Vintage 2006 Russian River Valley (Wines (1)
Located in New York)
Edna Valley Chardonnay
- Vintage 2000 Paragon Vineyard 2lbsl (Wines half-bottle (2)
Located in New York)
- Vintage 2006 Paragon Vineyard (Wines (2)
Located in New York)
Grgich Hills Chardonnay
- Vintage 2000 (Wines Located in New York) half-bottle (2)
Heitz Cellars Chardonnay
- Vintage 2007 nl (Wines Located in New York) (1)
Kendall Jackson Chardonnay
- Vintage 2000 Vintner's Reserve (Wines Located (1)
in New York)
Kendall Jackson Grand Reserve Chardonnay
- Vintage 2003 (Wines Located in New York) (1)
Lewis Cellars Chardonnay
- Vintage 2006 Race Car (Wines Located in New (2)
York)
Morgan Chardonnay
- Vintage 1999 bsl, tl (Wines Located in New (1)
York)
Patz & Hall Chardonnay
- Vintage 2002 Dutton Ranch (Wines Located in (1)
New York)
Above 7 half-bottles per lot $200-300
and 10 bottles
4233 Kistler Chardonnay - Vintage 1997
cuvée Cathleen
bsl, nl (Wines Located in New York)
"It is difficult to find the adjectives and superlatives to describe the 1997 Chardonnay cuvée Cathleen. This offering is produced from a selection of barrels that Steve Kistler and Mark Bixler believe to be the richest and most complete. Negligibly better than the other brilliant cuvées, it possesses exceptional richness, length, and intensity. Layers of fruit, smoky, buttery popcorn, tropical fruit and mineral scents soar from the glass, and are exceptionally intense and well-balanced."(94-96pts)
1 bottle per lot $70-100
4234 Marcassin Chardonnay - Vintage 2003
Marcassin Vineyard
(Wines Located in New York)
"The Chevalier-Montrachet-like 2003 Chardonnay Marcassin Vineyard exhibits liquid stone-like notes interwoven with popcorn, candied oranges, citrus oil, melon, and honeyed green apples. A top vintage of Corton-Charlemagne was the only wine I could think of when I was smelling and tasting this extraordinary wine. Broad, rich, and beautifully pure as well as nuanced, it should drink well for at least a decade."(97pts)
1 bottle per lot $180-240
4235 Rutherford Hill Chardonnay - Vintage 1999
25th Anniversary
(Wines Located in New York)
12 bottles per lot $180-240
4236 Schramsberg Brut
- Vintage NV Blanc de Blancs (Wines Located (1)
in New York)
Sonoma Cutrer Chardonnay
- Vintage 2005 (Wines Located in New York) (1)
- Vintage 2006 Sonoma Coast (Wines Located in (2)
New York)
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2006 (Wines Located in New York) (3)
Hogue Cellars Chardonnay
- Vintage 2004 Columbia Valley (Wines Located (1)
in New York)
Trevor Jones Chardonnay
- Vintage 1996 Virgin (Wines Located in New (1)
York)
Above 9 bottles per lot $60-80
4237 Wild Duck Creek Shiraz - Vintage 2000
Duck Muck
(Wines Located in New York)
"...sweet, layered, explosively full-bodied personality. This thrilling, hedonistic effort pushes Shiraz to the limit. It falls somewhere between an over-the-top Shiraz and a late-harvest offering. Extremely pure and concentrated, it is the type of wine that does not exist anywhere except South Australia. Unique!..."(95pts)
2 bottles per lot $350-480
4238 Tokaji Aszu - Vintage 1975
Eszencia, O. Gabor
(Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $60-80
4239 Warre's Vintage Port - Vintage 1985
bsl, wisl, nl, sos (Wines Located in New York)
"There is plenty of grip and backbone here. Deep purple, with concentrated grape and violet aromas, full-bodied, with huge grapy flavors, excellent backbone and a long finish."(91pts WS)
1 half-bottle per lot $20-30
4240 Madeira - Vintage 1966
Bual, Leacock
1x1 bottle owc (Wines Located in New York)
1 bottle per lot $70-100
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PARCEL LOTS 4241-4244
4241 Château Certan de May - Vintage 2009
Pomerol
(Wines Located in New York)
"A bruising, black/purple-hued, full-bodied wine, the 2009 Certan de May displays notes of charcuterie, smoked game, herbs, black truffles, roasted meats, cassis and black cherries. .."(93+pts)
2 bottles per lot $160-200
4242 2 bottles per lot $160-200
(Wines Located in New York)
4243 2 bottles per lot $160-200
(Wines Located in New York)
4244 2 bottles per lot $160-200
(Wines Located in New York)
PARCEL LOTS 4245-4246
4245 Château Le Dome - Vintage 2009
St. Emilion
4vlscl (Wines Located in New York)
(99pts)
2 bottles per lot $320-350
4246 2 bottles per lot $320-350
4vlscl (Wines Located in New York)
PARCEL LOTS 4247-4250
4247 Domaine de Chevalier - Vintage 2005
Graves
(Wines Located in New York)
(95pts)
3 bottles per lot $200-260
4248 3 bottles per lot $200-260
(Wines Located in New York)
4249 3 bottles per lot $200-260
(Wines Located in New York)
4250 3 bottles per lot $200-260
(Wines Located in New York)
4251 1 bottle per lot $80-100
vlscl (Wines Located in New York)
4252 Clos de la Roche - Vintage 2006
Vieilles Vignes, Intra-Muros, D. Laurent
1-3.5cm bc, 1wisvl, 1sos (Wines Located in New York)
(96pts)
3 bottles per lot $260-320
4253 Clos St. Denis - Vintage 2006
Vieilles Vignes, D. Laurent
2lscl, 1tl (Wines Located in New York)
"...But great wine has a way of focusing your mind, and from the first whiff it was clear that here was a grand cru completely different and no less compelling. Candied black raspberries, violets, buddleia, iodine, and hints of caramel issue an enticing call from the glass. On the palate, this offers counterpoint of bitter fruit pits; medicinal iodine and herbal concentrates; bitter-sweet floral perfume; fresh berry puree; and savory, carnal pan reductions. The tenderness and caress characteristic of some of the best 2006s are present here in spades, and in this Pinot's velvety embrace, I started to forget all about that frightening Clos de la Roche! Had you asked me what this was blind, I'm sure I would have said "Musigny." Incidentally, Laurent relates that these vines were planted around the time of the First World War, but that unfortunately, in 2007 he couldn't access their fruit which served for three barrels in 2006. Dominique Laurent whose methodology I attempted to clarify in a bit more detail in my report for issue 171 purchased fewer wines in 2006 (not all of which I tasted) than he had in 2005, particularly at the lower end of the classificatory spectrum and in the Côte de Beaune. On the other hand, there were some correspondingly sweet opportunities, he noted, to expand acquisitions in top-notch crus due to initial hesitation of many negociants to buy heavily into this vintage. Laurent was highly enthusiastic about the quality of the wines he did raise, which in the glass often proved even more infectious than his enthusiasm and that's saying something! What's more, although these wines generally produced in 50-250 case quantities have a reputation for high prices, most of these 2006s especially in their upper-echelons strike me as exhibiting excellent price:quality rapport. While absence of chaptalization and absence of sulfur during the elevage remain constant features this year, less of the wine Laurent purchased and raised from 2006 was vinified with stems than in most years. Vieilles Vignes," incidentally, is used like a brand name chez Laurent, referring to all of his better wines, whereas his "Tradition" line none of which I tasted consists of cuvées rendered in slightly larger volumes and exclusively for the French market. Since the words "Vieilles Vignes" are prominently displayed on the label, I have included them as part of each wine's description, although one will often see Laurent's same top wines referred to without that designation. "(95pts)
3 bottles per lot $260-300
4254 Gevrey Chambertin - Vintage 2006
Les Cazetiers, Vieilles Vignes, D. Laurent
(Wines Located in New York)
(93pts)
2 bottles per lot $130-150
4255 Mazis Chambertin - Vintage 2006
Vieilles Vignes, D. Laurent
(Wines Located in New York)
"Black cherry preserves, toasted pecan, peat, and iodine inform the powerful and pungent nose of Laurent's 2006 Mazis Chambertin Vieilles Vignes, representing an assemblage of juice from both the Mazis-Hauts and Mazis-Bas sections of that cru. This is another sumptuously rich, palpably dense, but finely tannic Laurent 2006, and the suggestions of mineral and animal dimensions are more evolved, deeper, and more intriguing than in the corresponding Charmes. It finishes with superb persistence, promising to reward 12-15 years of cellaring, and probably best left untouched for the first 4-6 of those. "(93pts)
4 bottles per lot $400-550
4256 Nuits St. Georges - Vintage 2006
Les St. Georges, Vieilles Vignes, D. Laurent
(Wines Located in New York)
3 bottles per lot $240-260
4257 Nuits St. Georges - Vintage 2006
Les Vaucrains, D. Laurent
1lwrl (Wines Located in New York)
"The Laurent 2006 Nuits St.-Georges Les Vaucrains Vieilles Vignes once again representing three barrels from a parcel of vines planted in the 1920s, its fruit only around half de-stemmed shares with the corresponding Les Argillieres its underlying sense of stoniness and of abundant though fine-grained tannins. A plum cake-like sense of dried pit fruit and brown spices as well as of luscious density informs this wine's formidable yet already enticing palate. There may not yet be a wealth of nuance on display here, nor is there the kinetic dimension of buoyancy that accrues to many of the best 2006s. But as this monumentally rich, positively-powerful, for now seemingly vintage a-typical Pinot unfolds, there are going to be happy faces among the few lucky enough to own some. I would plan to revisit this in 2011 or 2012 and anticipate at least half a dozen years of impressive performance thereafter. "(93pts)
3 bottles per lot $190-220
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