CHÂTEAU D'YQUEM 1787 BORDEAUX, SAUTERNES One bottle Condition: Reconditioned Recorked... Lot 76

CHÂTEAU D'YQUEM 1787 BORDEAUX, SAUTERNES One bottle Condition: Reconditioned Recorked in April 1953 and 1980 Recorked, recapped and relabelled on April 13, 1994 Label (modern) slightly damaged Old label on reverse side (damaged) Back label damaged with the words: Bouchon échangé le 1? April 1953 in the presence and under the ... (the?) responsibility of Raymond Baudouin Secretary General of the Academy ... (des Vins de?) France" Level: Bottom bottle Origin: Former collection of Raymond Beaudouin (founding director of the Revue du Vin de France General Secretary of the Académie des Vins de France) Private collection Certificate of authenticity drawn up by Mr. Baudouin. Alexandre de Lur-Saluces (former director and owner of Château d'Yquem) in 1995, countersigned in 2014 Wooden case of the château designed for the bottle (wooden case after 1787) NB : Exceptional bottle due to its extreme rarity and its state of preservation The Sauternes white wine of your vintage that you were kind enough to send me to Paris at the beginning of 1788, has been so well approved by the Americans who tasted it, that I have no doubt that my compatriots generally do not find it as conform to their taste. Now that I have settled here, I have persuaded our President, General Washington, to try a sample of it. He's asking thirty dozen for you, sir, and I'm asking ten dozen for myself? Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) in Philadelphia, to the Earl of Lur-Saluces on September 6, 1790 Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) Rembrandt Peale Thomas Jefferson, oil on canvas, 1800 THE INSPIRATOR OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY His action as President earned him the title of second founder of the United States after George Washington. A man of the Enlightenment, of immense curiosity, he obviously shared the physiocrats' interest in agriculture and, like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, placed his ideal in a republic of