I have a bottle of Veuve Clicquot 1985 Rare Vintage Rosé, and I’m wondering when it was disgorged. I’m having a hard time finding any detail about that other than that this is a late disgorgement. There are codes on the front label (bottom right: 14009513), back label (lower right: 14009836) and glass (LLEZJX 00137), but I don’t know if there were multiple disgorgments or not. Can anyone tell me when this might have been disgorged?
All of the bottlings of late released 85 Rare Rose I have had were mid-90s disgorgements done a number of years after the original release, but I know that mid-2000 disgorgements were also done (though all of this disgorgement I have had were done under the normal label and came out a year before the Rare). I prefer the mid-90s disgorgements over the later ones, but there is no easy way to tell what you have unless you open the bottle and check the cork to see what the code says.
Thanks, Brad. Will the code on the cork be obvious to decipher? If not, can you tell me how I will know when I do open this bottle in a couple of weeks?