quinxstar said: "the bottle a 1 millions of $ ? only 20000 dollars. how was the wine ? personaly i sell one bottle and i drink all the others i m schock by the low price
It has been near impossible to find any info on 1876-1886 Mouton-Rothschild wines. Before or after those years it is not to hard to find info about Mouton-Rothschild wines. I took the price from an article I will post at the end.
The wine came from an unknown and sealed off wine cellar from the Ten Broeck Mansion in Albany, NY. The mansion was built in 1797 by General Abraham Ten Broeck. General Ten Broeck was a NY delegate to the Second Continental Congress. General Ten Broeck was also Commander of Ten Broeck's Brigade (New York Militia) at the Second Battle of Saratoga (Battle of Bemis Heights) on October 7, 1777, as part of the Left wing of Major General Horatio Gates.
Later on the Ten Broeck Mansion was placed on The National Register of Historic Places and tours were given. My room mate's Mom worked there as a caretaker, gardener, and for social gala's, hostess and sometimes cook. She was given a free apartment in the basement for her services. This was in the late 60's & early 70's. At some point some bricks from a cellar wall fell out and my friend looked in and saw a wine cellar that had been bricked in for who knows how many decades or for what reason. As a tiny guy he was able to squeeze in the hole and retrieve some wine cases, not all was good as some corks had rotted out. He owed everyone in the world money and you got a case of wine if he owed you money. Thatâs' how I ended up with a case of 1878 Mouton-Rothschild Bordeaux. It meant nothing to me so I drank it. Not a wine person at all - would rather drink piss out of a boot. But it was free and almost as good as Boone's Farm wine so that's my story.
Shortly afterwards, whoever owned the mansion 'discovered' the wine cellar. Big news around here! The collection included rarities that would have been valuable even when they were bottled, such as Chambertin 1875, Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1869 and 1870, Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1875, 1878 and 1887, and Chateau dâYquem 1869, considered the best wine of Sauternes.
Ten Broeck Mansion
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Wine Cellar is much bigger than shown here.
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As you can see, some cork had rotted out and the wine was undrinkable. Some of the empty bottles fetch 500-600 USD, maybe more?
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I took the prices for this article, can't vouch for prices, as quinxstar mentioned, maybe worth a lot more:
https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-f...-a-glass-to-history-6075661.php#photo-7512736
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