1982 Chateau Leoville Barton, Saint Julien
Medium dark. Open nose with aromas of cherry, currants, chassis and oak. Big forward cherry and current fruit flavors, with hints of leather and tobacco towards the finish that developed as the wine aired, moderate acid, still soft fruity tannins, good structure and a long finish. My rating 90.
Parker rated this wine very highly when it was young, and it has developed into a very good, mature Bordeaux that does not show any signs of decline yet. In fact this wine seems surprising tight for a 20 year old Bordeaux.
posted by mikeca | 11:32 PM
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Hi Mike,
my father got be a bottle of this when i was a kid. He got my brothers and I each a fine wine of our birth year. Now im no wine pro so id just hate to waste such a good wine on my by drinking it myself. My dad says id apreciate it anyway.. but as a struggling artist who could maybe make a buck from it... im thinking about selling it. Do you know how much one of these is worth now? How would I go about selling it?
any help would be much apreciated.
thanks
Kate
From your profile, you may be in Canada. I have no idea what the law is in Canada on private sales of wine. Here in California, technically private individuals can only sell wine to a licensed wine seller, like a liquor or wine store or one of the big auction houses, but these laws are frequently ignored. In the US each state has its own laws on this.
It is difficult to resell a single bottle of old Bordeaux, because of worries about how the wine has been stored. If the wine has been stored reasonably well, it should have a good value. Searching around on the web, I found auction prices in the $70-$120 range for one bottle of 1982 Chateau Leoville Barton. It is difficult to find people who appreciate fine wine and are willing to pay these kinds of prices for a single bottle though. A retailer might be willing to sell it for you, but at least here in California only a small fraction of wine/liquor retailers deal in fine wine. I live in the San Francisco bay area, and there are only a handful of retails in the whole Bay Area that deal in older fine wines. It is a very small market. I would guess that a retailer that would resell your wine would pay you only half or less of the auction price. If you had a case of the wine, the retailer could try one of the bottles to make sure they had been stored properly, and then sell the rest of the case, but with only one bottle, the retailer might be reluctant to resell it at all. A private sale might work better, but you would have to know people able and willing to pay that kind of money.
Sorry, I don’t have anything more positive to say. By the way, you are very lucky to have been born in 1982. It was one of top vintages of the last 50 years in Bordeaux.
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