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Description: For Collection Only from Sotheby's Greenford Park
This extraordinary Magnum of Lafite has a very special Huntsman provenance, coming from the cellar of the country house of Huntsman’s Chairman, Woodperry House. The trophy bottle was reunited with its original cellar as it was long ago part of the famed Sir John Thompson’s cellar at Woodperry House, Oxfordshire, and sold at Christie’s in December 1976, catalogued as ‘Removed from Bin 20. Cellar book entry “1870 vintage too big and too dear… laid down in 1874… great future.”’ Sir John’s grandfather paid 75 shillings per dozen for the bottles of 1870. The price of the magnums was not recorded.
For comparison with another recorked and relabelled Chateau Lafite label, notes state from the Christie’s Lenoir Josey catalogue, ?Lot 751 Friday 1 December: “Originally bottled by J.L.Pfungst, a leading shipper of Bordeaux and Champagne of the period. At the time of the sale it had the shippers capsule, cork branded “J.L. Pfungst Vintage 1870.”
