Name/Title
Press ReleaseEntry/Object ID
Q2022.21.198Scope and Content
A 3-page Press Release from: Public Relations Department, Heublein, Inc., Hartford, Conn., on embossed paperContext
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK, April 6(1972) -- Rare Wines of which may be the last of their kind in the world -- and including one over-sized bottle experts estimate could command a price i excess of $7.000 -- will be sold at auction here next month.
Featuring classic vintages of the 19th and 20th centuries from . . . . .
Site of the auction will be the Vivian Beaumont Theater in . . . .
Plans for this sale of wine rarities were outlined here today by . . . .
The auction, including vintages pre-dating the Civil war, plus . . . .
As a prelude, preview tastings of many of these wines are . . .
Those attending the preview tastings in Atlanta, Washington and San Francisco, who cannot attend the auction . . . .
While many irreplaceable and otherwise unobtainable vintages will be included in the sale, primary attention and the most competitive bidding are expected to focus on:
1. A jeroboam of 1929 Vintage Chateau Mouton-Rothschild (equivalent of five 25-ounce bottles) . . .
2. The Bordeaux cellar from the Augusta National Golf Club, of Augusta, Ga. . . . .
3. An extremely rare collection of Rheingau wines from the personal cellars of several Princess, Counts and
Barons of Germany. . . . .
4. An unprecedented, advance offering of three 50-gallon barrels of 1970 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet
Sauvignon Private Reserve and Beaumont Pinot Noir, . . . .
5. Unusual offerings from California's Inglenook Vineyards, including some last-of-a-kind vintages, . . . .
Other significant items in the auction include a small group of 1844 vintage Port from a recently-discovered wine cellar of a Newport, R. I. mansion; . . . .
This marks the fourth straight year that the wine companies of Heublein, Inc. have presented the Premiere National Auction of Rare Wines. . . .
The 1971 auction, held last May in San Francisco, saw the total prices paid soar past $231,000, . . . .
The total number of bottles involved in this year's auction number some 15,000 and comprises old, . . .
J. Michael Broadbent, wine director of Christie's of London, world famous auctioneers of art and wine . .
Assisting Broadbent will be Alexander C. McNally, international wine manager of Heublein . . .Lexicon
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsDimensions
Dimension Notes
8.5" x 11"
