The Right Words for the Right Wines

It is difficult to choose the right words that can fully describe this auction. Nevertheless, a whole host of words are queuing up along the red carpet to get their picture taken with the A-list celebrities of the wine world's royal family tree. The words have to crawl over each other, and it’s a tangled web of pointed vowels, biting consonants, oaths and curses as well as knotted conjunctions.

In the following, we will try to put these competing words in order and select the most descriptive ones for the auction. However, we cannot promise that the praise of the wine lots and the subsequent heart palpitations and adrenaline rush will not seize control of the keyboard. For what is wine, if not the pure and raw emotional roller coaster ride all of us wine lovers happily stand in line for time and time again.

Equally rare is Griotte Chambertin from Domaine Fourrier. This is the first time ever we can offer three vintages at the same auction. Whether the name of this small parcel of a grand cru appellation comes from the fact that Morello cherries were once grown here, or it is derived from a type of stone with the same name that resembled the colour of a cherry stone, remains unknown. However, it is certainly a known fact that this wine contains enough warm memories to keep the owner snug for a long time, now that the cold weather is beginning to roll across the autumn land.

Only the best for my friends and me. Wine is made to be shared, and there has to be plenty of it, so it can make it around the table and back again. Here's your chance. “Unique” and “in ample supply” are difficult words to combine in the same sentence, but that seems to be the case when it comes to describing this Scandinavian collection. Like diamonds with a splash of red wine in their hearts, these bottles sparkle throughout the auction, and as the saying goes: one can always dream. Read more about what awaits the lucky bidders on the collection in the next three paragraphs.

Chateau Latour 1982 OWC. This is the vintage that catapulted the “American wine lawyer” into the stratosphere and turned the wine world on its head. In these bottles, we find the cause for this upheaval. The content is nothing short of majestic and carries enough stopping power in the form of fruit and soft tannins to tame even the most stock-heavy and bone marrow-filled Bordelaise sauce. 

From the same cellar we can also offer bucketloads of the always artful Chateau Mouton-Rothschild in both square and round shapes. The immortal 1986 vintage in magnum size. A whole case of the 2000 vintage in OWC, which can do more than just bleat about its quality and cool equipment. An entire unopened case of the 2005 vintage that only gets better as you get older.

This small taste of the full menu is hereby handed over to you the readers, and we hope that auction 2043 will be to everyone's liking. Start bidding before your neighbour does.