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Château Gruaud Larose offers an outstandingly unique
bottle to complete this lot: an original Gruaud Larose 1865
bottle which was retrieved from the icy depths of the Sea,
and refilled by the Château with their ultra-premium Gruaud
Larose 2000.
In February 1872, a ship called the Marie-Therese left Bordeaux
bound for Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in Vietnam carrying
2,000 bottles of 1865 Gruaud Larose. The vessel sank in a storm
in the Gaspar Straits in Indonesia. One hundred and twenty
years later, several hundred of the bottles were brought to the
surface.
Included in this lot is one of the original bottles from
1865, now refilled with Ch. Gruaud Larose 2000.
This vintage
features “absolutely wonderful aromas of flowers, currants and
citrus. Full-bodied, yet very, very refined, with a center core of
fruit that tastes like crushed raspberries and goes on and on.
Greatest wine from this estate since 1945,” according to
Wine
Spectator
. We’ll drink to that!
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