Wine experts .....?!
Answers: Can anyone hazard a guess at what a Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1945 might bring at auction?
That is a difficult question. If there is only one bottle and it has not been cellared properly then surprisingly little. A single bottle that has not been looked after could at best have a cork that needs replacing or at worst is undrinkable because the cork should have been replaced years ago. I visited a supplier some weeks ago who was offering a single bottle for ￡1165 (at that price he was making a profit presumably so he must have paid considerably less). If you are not sure about the condition consider selling it on e-Bay (with a reserve). Hopefully you'll find two or more people willing to push the price along.
Around $6k perhaps.
If it still any good....that's another question I guess....
Stephanie
Nonsense.......45 was a great vintage for this Pauillac.
...as far as 1982 being the year of the century for Bordeaux....Yea right....
we hear that from the French and from wine "experts" every year.......1995, 1996 etc....
Besides Bordeaux is a very large region....what may have been a "great" year for some denomination (or evean a chateau) could have been a terrible one for another a few miles down the road.
This just proves that because someone lives, was born, visited or knows where France is in a map does not mean they know diddly about wine...
If however I had ￡2-3k to spend on one bottle of wine (to drink...not as an investment) it would certainly NOT be French to begin with......
I would definitely go for Australian/California/New Zeland ...in that order!
Well, I assume it is a red, but what kind of read. I'd say $10K
Laffite Rotschild 1945 does not exist - the first possible year is 1946 - I'd avise you to buy a 1982 which is one of if not the best year of the XX th -
For some more fun read this : http://www.evinite.fr/chateau-lafite-rot...
Just notice the retailer does not have anything before 1952, and once again the older are not the most expensive - once again I can personally witnees that 1982 is in Bordeaux the year of the century -
When you lucjkily live in France and own very high level bottles such as Laffite, Auzone, Margaux etc, you are welcome in origin -cellars, where they open you bottles, carafe them in order to clarify the wine, and then compensate the natural loss of wine, with the same wine of the same year- and at the end put a new cork -
very few people know this - it's not proportinally very expensive
very good Stephanie - be careful the year on some of these bottles. If you are buying - careful to not latch on to a counterfeit. Rothschilds (lafite especially) are some of the more counterfeited wines in the world. If you have the 46 that Steph mentioned, that's going to more of a collectors piece and not on the quality of the wine. No matter the cellaring or care - a 60 year old bordeaux wine will be past it's prime. Make sure it's clean and the label is unobstructed.
Well Berry Bros. & Rudd rate it a 10/10 vintage and drinking well. As to value, the only way to find out is take it to an auction house that specialises in this kind of thing.
They will tell you the market situation for this kind of wine, whether they are selling at all, and if there is demand for single bottles (you don't specify cases(s)) at present
On wine-searcher.com there are quotes from $1100 a bottle upwards, but go to an auction house before doing anything else.
Also I forgot, if the wine hasn't been stored properly the wine will be worth nothing.