1978 Saint-Emilion

[serdmann]

I received a bottle of Sichel Grand vin de bourdeaux as a gift 1978. Just wandering if it is drinkable or something to save for a special day. Please help

[wondersofwine]

Without being an expert on Bordeaux wines I would question its drinkability. (Almost thirty years old and no prominent Chateau mentioned on the label.)

[serdmann]

Thanks wodersofwine, Here is the complete label info:

Sichel, Saint-Emilion red bordeaux wine 1978 don't know if this helps anymore or not.

[winoweenie]

Sorry. This is a modest non-classified property that makes mediocre wines. No chance of it being drinkable and has no value. Open it and take a whiff. WW

[AltaJoe]

Just a guess here, but don't be surprised by a nose of rotting lettuce.

[Kcwhippet]

I've never smelled rotting lettuce in 43 years of drinking wine - old or young. I've had some really old wines but never any that smelled like that. Lat year I tried a 1975 Vieux telegraphe my sister had in the cupboard over her stove. It was long dead and tasted terrible, but not like rotting lettuce. However if that's a characteristic of really dead Bordeaux, maybe I'll open the 1898 or the 1900 I have as an experiment.

[brappy]

who's the producer KC? Of your oldies that is?

[Kcwhippet]

Thry're both negotiant wines, Mark - A. De Luze et Fils. Both are completely undrinkable - very, very low fills and total separation. My daughter's mother-in-law had them in her garden shed up in New Hampshire, so they're really only oddities.

[winoweenie]

AND besides that, even if they were drinkable, lovely Judy done' like Bordeaux. I offered to open any of the 95 1st or 2nds and she said "open me that Cali Cab!" WW [img]http://wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]