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Worn, lightly scuffed contemporary capsule, worn, torn, lightly scuffed label. Rebouchée at Biondi-Santi in 1985: "Using that meticulous system in the course of two days . . . 18 bottles of the 1891 . . . were opened and topped up. Of those ancient, precious reserves, now verging on their hundreth year, the tasting was extremely limited, little more than symbolic. The risommatura of the 1964 vintage alone cost something like 11 million lire, which is the amount the bottles used in the topping up the others would have fetched on the market. It was, therefore, a rather exceptional event in which may would have liked to have participated. A limited and highly select public, assembled even from a considerable distance. There was Ezio Rivella; journalist Terry Robards of The New York Post; Dr. Sadao Ivano, professor of enology at an institute in Tokyo; Gianfranco Santiccioli, chairman of the 'garantita' commission for Brunello; Pasquale di Lena, giornalist and secretary of the enoteca at Siena; Piero Selvaggio of the famous Valentino's restaurant in Los Angeles, and Jack Daniels and Win Wilson, the two American importers of Biondi-Santi products, of Santa Helena, Calif. [Giacinto Furlan, Italian Wines & Spirits, Feb 1986]" |