{"product_id":"chateau-la-grace-dieux-1961","title":"Chateau La Grace Dieu Saint-Emilion 1961 AOC 0,75l","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe name comes from an abbey. A Cistercian house called La Grâce Dieu stood on the slope west of Saint-Émilion for centuries until the Revolution swept it away, and the vineyard that took over the land kept the title. The wine is Merlot-led, grown on sand and gravel between the town and the Pomerol boundary, in the softer, rounder style of that stretch of the appellation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat really matters here is the year. 1961 gave Bordeaux one of the smallest and finest crops of the century: a ruined flowering followed by a hot, dry summer, so that every vine carried a handful of small, thick-skinned berries and nothing else. Even unclassified estates made wine well above their normal level, and the famous names from the vintage have long since priced themselves out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bottle still shows wine at the base of the neck, an unusually high fill for something sealed sixty-five years ago. That is the single best indication that it has lain still in a cool cellar rather than being moved from owner to owner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Château La Grâce Dieu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVintage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1961\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAppellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Saint-Émilion AOC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 75cl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bordeaux, France\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere it is likely to be now.\u003c\/strong\u003e The high fill is a genuinely good sign for a wine of this age, and a bottle like this can still be alive, but pre-1990 wines are sold here as collectibles without a promise of drinkability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it suits.\u003c\/strong\u003e The blue sapphire anniversary falls at sixty-five years, which makes 1961 the right year for a couple married then and still marking it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition.\u003c\/strong\u003e There is some marking to the label, but the wine stands at the base of the neck — an unusually high fill for 1961, and the clearest sign of careful storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bought to order from a professional European merchant. We check fill, label and capsule when the bottle reaches us and photograph it before it ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivered in 7 to 10 working days, tracked. Transit cover can be added at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSold as a collectible item, as seen. No guarantee is given on drinkability.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!--anno-tpl-3--\u003e","brand":"Château La Grâce Dieu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58326603956568,"sku":"ANNO-000706","price":225.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6505\/6856\/files\/chateau-la-grace-dieux-1961_3ad4026d-12db-47cd-b297-4741d3d39b84.jpg?v=1790767216","url":"https:\/\/anno.wine\/products\/chateau-la-grace-dieux-1961","provider":"ANNO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}