PT Barnum, or am I just being niave?

WINE TALK
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Was doing my weekly troll of wine bid and saw this.

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Saw the color and went “hmmmm…”

Then thought the “Purchased upon release, removed from a temperature controlled wine cellar.” comment was quite amusing. (BTW, I know Leroy releases stuff late, but this is just weird looking. Did they re-release 34 whites in the last 20 years?)

So, I pose the question to those that may have experience with kind of stuff…

What’s up here? Shot? Drinkable? Other worldly? Likely purchased on release??? Or most likely, re-release?

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You thinking, “CINDERELLA wine?”

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Ian, based on the color, it looks like maple syrup in the bottle! [cheers.gif]

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I think Cheryl might be bidding on it.

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Hard to tell from the photo, but that looks awfully scary. The color doesn’t match the fill level, IMHO.

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[rofl.gif]

Tsk tsk tsk…now now Daniel, be nice.

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[bow.gif]

That was me, being nice.

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T Bone

I thought that was my post of the year.

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Dirty. French. No.

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Ian,

It’s surely a re-release. While I don’t remember seeing this wine being initially offered, in the past few years I remember a number of Leroy whites from the '60’s and a number of reds from the '50’s and '60’s being offered.

If the color in the picture is accurate, then the wine is shot and undrinkable unless Francois audouzes it for three months :wink:

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One zinger after another in this thread.

[rofl.gif] [worship.gif]

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This has got to be shot…

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Very likely, they release lots of library wines, some of which are very good and some of which are, um, not.

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I’ve had plenty of “um, nots” with the Maison wines. I know there are some bottlings where good bottles are out of sight, but I haven’t had any of those. It’s amazing what the Leroy name can do to the price of a bottle of wine.

Savigny Narbotons is a classic example.

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When you Village wine prices are more expensive than most others Grand Crus pricing…that’s a problem.

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Best looking 75 year old bottle I’ve ever seen.

Sucker has “Thunder Show” written all over it.

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Tim,

Assuming that bottle is a re-release, and it almost certainly is, it would have been labeled at the time it left the Maison. So, nothing looks amiss in that regard.

The problem I’ve found with Leroy’s re-releases is they can be somewhat inconsistant and that I think Lalou may get “mixed up” when applying the vintage tags.

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Perhaps an understatement?