50 th birthday special request Chicago area

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Hi

Turning the big 50 later in the year.

Its cheeky and very optomistic but would anyone in Chicago area be willing to sell one surplus bottle of a first growth at a price i could afford. This would need to be well below auction price.

I could stretch to say $300 cash but would like a mature Lafite, Latour, Mouton etc.

No need for any replies that im well below market value, just hopeful that someone could spare one bottle at well above their cost but well below auction value. I would make it very easy by driving to you and paying cash

Thanks

Alan

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Alan,

If you don’t get any offers here I would suggest looking at www.hdhwine.com. They have some Haut-Brion that is close to your price range. If you weren’t definite on first growth they would have some excellent big name bordeaux that would fall in to your price range. Pick up at their warehouse is very easy.

George

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PM sent.

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Since you’re in Chicago, you can probably find some mature First Growths for $20@ in the basement of some mom and pop liquor store.

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Shit like that doesnt happen to me !!!

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I have bought from HDH and i agree they are fine, im not really after something that is just good though I want great !!

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So why aren’t you interested in a burg then ? Hehehe

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Just because it is 1st growth doesn’t mean it is greater than others. Part of the tariff is the name. With $300 to spend I would be looking somewhere other than 1st growth for a great wine.

George

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George

I would tend to agree amd normally im not attracted to the big names.

However i am not above my vanity/ego and the thought of drinking a Latour or Lafite on a special occasion like my 50th outweighs the fact that there is probably better wine available for a lower cost

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I have had all the 1964 first growths. I will send you some TN for your birthday. :wink:

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“Son, your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash.”

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Happy Birthday,

George

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There is nothing wrong with wanting to see what the most iconic wines are like, even if there is usually a premium associated with it, and even though there may well be other wines out there that are a little better.

A wine lover wants to know what Grange, d’Yquem, First Growths, famous Grand Cru Burgs, SQN, and so forth taste like. I totally get it.

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Alan, guaranteed that you have held up than 99.9% of the Bordeaux available on the market save for maybe the Latour.

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Mike

Sorry, did not understand your post

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1964 Bordeaux of all 5 classifications suffer from weak vintage. Weak vintage in the 60’s were very different that today. 1963 was undrinkable as was 1962 and 1965. Although 64 was a decent drinking vintage, most of the oppurtunites for such dried up in the 80’s and 90’s. Ch. Latour had a reputation for doing better than its bretheren in off years and was quite a decent drink for 20 beyond. You celebrate a milestone birthday (happy birthday by the way) and it’s admirable but practical? I say go for it and when you turn 51 buy a magnum of Dom Perignon rose. All this info from a Napa Drinking Cab guy born in 1961, probabbly one of the greatest Bordeaux vintages ever. [cheers.gif]

oops! I just realized this is commerce corner and apologize for my 2 cents.

Put this out in the Wine Forum and have fun with it!!

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I do have a Napa Valley Charles Krug 1964, hoping its still drinkable

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We did a large 1964 tasting earlier in the year; while inconsistent, the wines picked before the rains terrific. Re 1st growths: Petrus, Cheval were superb, the Latour not a great bottle, and Haut Brion was poor. Evangile, La Mission, VCC and Trotanoy were as good as anything bar Petrus.

Burgundies are incredibly expensive but chosen well, very good. Best QPR is Piedmont. you can find some great examples for under $200

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Great

Anyone got a 64 Petrus that they will sell for $300 !!!