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1961 wine price – Château d’Yquem 1961 from Arden Fine Wines in London.
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1961 wine price – Château d’Yquem 1961
Unbroken fine weather (warm and dry) throughout the growing season gave the year a good start.
They began the harvest very early, on the 9th of September, but they found botrytis largely at a standstill due to lack of water.
Workers picked grapes filled not even 15 barrels of wine in 3 weeks.
They began picking again in October, but 8 days of rain irretrievably ruined the rest of the crop.
This year’s capricious weather deprived the 1961 Château d’Yquem Sauternes of the superb reputation that the red wines of Bordeaux enjoyed in this vintage.
You can find the price of this 1961 wine at Arden Fine Wines in London.
A short history of Chateau d’Yquem
Château d’Yquem in Sauternes stands out as the only wine classified as Premier Cru Supérieur in the 1855 classification.
Château d’Yquem almost had English origins.
During the Middle Ages, the King of England, who was also Duke of Aquitaine at the time, owned the estate.
In 1453, Charles VII regained southwest France under the dominion of the French crown and has kept it French ever since.
A century and a half later, in 1593, Jacques Sauvage, a descendant of a local noble family, received feudal tenure over Yquem.
The Gironde department archives, as well as those of the château, indicate that special winegrowing practices and late harvesting already existed at this time.
Furthermore, the château has hosted a vineyard since at least 1711, when Léon de Sauvage d’Yquem fully owned the estate.
Subsequently, in 1785, Françoise-Joséphine de Sauvage d’Yquem married Count Louis-Amédée de Lur-Saluces, and the estate passed to the Lur-Saluces family.
Notably, their descendants managed the property for over 200 years.
In fact, by the eighteenth century, people already recognized its wine as renowned.
After centuries of family ownership, Louis Vuitton-Moët-Hennessy purchased d’Yquem in 2000.
Then, in 2004, Pierre Lurton, MD at Château Cheval Blanc (another LVMH property), assumed control.
On average, only 65,000 bottles are produced each year at Château d’Yquem Sauternes.
Moreover, the yield never exceeds 900 litres per hectare, compared to the usual 2,000 to 3,000 litres in Sauternes.
Interestingly, the legend states that just one glass of wine comes from each vine.
