Hearst Castle WINE CELLAR....Pics!

[AlexO]

@B. Buzzini

Interesting to see these 34 Drc Richebourg now on Winebid… https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Items/1934-drc/8283558 …look at the “Richebourg” lettering…then look at the “Romanee Conti”…with the handscript??? Hmmmmm??

I have heard that the Domaine doesn’t label all their bottles at the time of bottling, but rather stores them as shiners. Could it be a case of them being sold decades later and the domaine slapping a newer label on them?

[lleichtman]

I liked the bottles of Paul Mason and Italian Swiss Colony in the fiascos.

[Drew_Goin]

Sadly, the Paul Masson and Cresta Blanca are the most interesting to me.

[Bruce_Leiser_owitz]

@B. Buzzini

Sorry to you German fans…they drank a LOT of Riesling…and there were tons of German bottles that I didn’t take pics of…the tour guide didn’t let us spend much time down there so I was trying to take as many pics as possible. Was amazed at the Burgs!
If there are any bottles full…they are probably toast by now…since there was a thermometer in there…and it was pushing 80!

They definitely drank well…but Hearst frowned on excess drinking…guests usually only had one or two drinks…and that’s all! The heavy drinkers were bused out of town!

Yeah, between the temperature and the storing the bottles upright…

Obviously, at this point anything that’s still there is toast, but it is fun to see to what was collected/consumed way back when.

Bruce

[andy_velebil]

@B. Buzzini

If there are any bottles full…they are probably toast by now…since there was a thermometer in there…and it was pushing 80!
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I’ve taken the cellar tour as well and I recall the same thought about the temp when we walked in it. Maybe it was colder back then, it was the “old days.”

[Andy_B]

@B. Buzzini

Interesting to see these 34 Drc Richebourg now on Winebid… https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Items/1934-drc/8283558 …look at the “Richebourg” lettering…then look at the “Romanee Conti”…with the handscript??? Hmmmmm??

It’s interesting that there is label variation between the '34 RC. The monopole label on the first label has no dots and a distinctly different ‘4.’ On the main label the ‘1934’ is a different font than the other two bottles.