Recent find : French full wine bottle dated 1944 opinions please

[james m]

Obviously Undrinkable!

Not necessarily the case.

It's generally a matter of how and where it was stored over the years. Some of the chateu's in France have wine in their cellars that's from the early 19th century that's still drinkable. The secret? Cellar temperatures and the wine hasn't really been disturbed although many old vintages are routinely re-corked every 25 years or so.
If any of you are really interested get ahold of Michael Broadbent's vintage wine book where he details tasting older vintages over the years.
I have a 1964 Barolo sitting here ready to be opened and decanted to serve with a steak dinner over this coming weekend.
Jim

[-Decerf-]

The good thing is that they were found all together in the old mansion so I have four of them ! The crate is just my way of displaying the bottles of wine and is obviously new

[jujuy]

I m aware about that. Your exemple about Barolo is not correct. Barolos are harvest to be long guarde wines. I ve some barolo gaja in my cellar along with sassicaia..

Not necessarily the case.

It's generally a matter of how and where it was stored over the years. Some of the chateu's in France have wine in their cellars that's from the early 19th century that's still drinkable. The secret? Cellar temperatures and the wine hasn't really been disturbed although many old vintages are routinely re-corked every 25 years or so.
If any of you are really interested get ahold of Michael Broadbent's vintage wine book where he details tasting older vintages over the years.
I have a 1964 Barolo sitting here ready to be opened and decanted to serve with a steak dinner over this coming weekend.
Jim

[james m]

I m aware about that. Your exemple about Barolo is not correct. Barolos are harvest to be long guarde wines. I ve some barolo gaja in my cellar along with sassicaia..

I've made no claims about Barolo's in any of my statements so I have no idea as to what your maintaining is incorrect . I'm just using one as an example and I'm perfectly aware of the fact that Barolo's are put up with long cellaring in mind.

[-Decerf-]

With all my respect gents but lets keep it on track, we are talking about 1944 Chateau Croque-Michotte 1er Cru Saint - Emilion in this thread...