I would imagine these to be of academic interest only but of course you can never be completely sure. I’ve drunk a lot of low-level wines and very occasionally you find one that is surprisingly, inexplicably good. But these look very low. I’d say you’ve got a 1/6 chance of even one of them providing any real drinking pleasure.
Those do not look good. The fill is too low. Not something I can imagine a collector buying. Probably only worth you opening for science.
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Not a ‘buy.’
Yes, as an experiment.
Grab a more recent vintage and open both. Try them and then experiment with what the Chateaus used to call ‘retopping.’
Pour a half an ounce of new, drop in one or two drops of old and taste…”adulterate to taste.'“
I think it’s fun to retop and see if there can be anyything to be enjoyed or learned from the alchemy.
Make it a tasting party!
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I am sure despite the fills, some people may be interested in trying them. You can get a few together and ask for a donation to charity.
That could be fun, but will it be fun enough to justify the cost of topping off with new vintages of Petrus, Margaux, and Latour?
Not going to lie, bro, those bottles look like absolute bootycheeks. You find those in a mud embankment while demoing an old decaying bighouse in New Orleans or something? Maybe the actual bottles would be worth some money to Rudy K and his posse, but the juice is almost certainly as dead as James A. Garfield. I mean really, taking a sip may be considered necrophilia in some states. Those wines are deader than the crowd at the 81st Golden Globes. They’re deader than my first dog Darwin, and his corpse probably looks better at this point.
You put those in your mouth make sure you have a will, penicillin, a shot of whisky, a whisky cocktail called a penicillin, or at the very least some listerine. Those wines are going to taste about like the bowl of an office bathroom stall at 9:43 am after everyone has had a few Grande Pikes and everything bagels.
And to Mark’s comment, the people who would be curious to try those bottles have both the worst FOMO ever and are the same creeps who masturbate to Faces of Death. Best use for these is cleaned up, emptied out bar props, or top with mixture of flat coca cola and 2004 Rol Valentin to just below top shoulder, then sell on Ebay using VPN, IP scrambler, burner account, dark web intermediary you met on 4Chan, and require purchaser to buy with bitcoin.
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wtf did I just read
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Thats a lot of words to say “don’t drink them.”
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I should have suggested selling them to Francois, or just popping the corks and leaving them on the counter for three days, charging people to try them, then exclaiming that they were absolutely stupendous wines of indomitable character. But yes, I would not drink those.
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Perhaps you can tell us whether or not you think one should try the wines. I am confused by the diffidence of your posts. I think they could go either way. 
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The sniff test could be telling or repelling.
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Both Petrus and the Margaux are definitely dead. Such brown color is never a false indicator. The Latour actually might be drinkable, but that’s extremely unlikely, and it almost definitely isn’t in great shape.
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It’s nice to see fellow 1961s that look way worse than me.
Hard pass, sorry.
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boy that escalated quickly
