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Monday, August 21, 2017

Visiting Old and Rare Ladies



Visiting Old and Rare Ladies



I try to live my life by doing at least one good deed a day… As Wine Quality Control Director and Sommelier, 2 or 3 times a week my good deed is to visit a retirement home for old and rare ladies to whom I provide some tenderness, love and care, while checking their conditions and helping to preserve them as needed…. Today a Lafite 1947 and a Lafite 1961 didn’t look so good… low morale level 😊 .. So I spent a bit more time with them… 😉

This retirement home for old and rare ladies, as I like to call it, is the Display Cellar at the French restaurant Le Pan Apicius located in the Goldin Financial Global Center (the company I have been working for the past 5 years).

Le Pan Apicius restaurant display cellar abounds of old and rare wine gems including one of the most unique collection of Chateau d'Yquem going back to 1825. Guests and patrons can admire rows of Petrus, DRC (Domaine de la Romanée Conti), Yquem, Haut-Brion, Lafite, Latour, Mouton, Cheval Blanc and much more on their way to the dining room.

Every day I pay them a visit, looking at them through the display window as well as checking the Humidity and Temperature Indicator Digital Display to make sure the storage condition and environment are ideal (Temperature and Humidity Level, Light, etc...).

2 or 3 times a week, I enter this cavern of Ali Baba to check the bottle conditions and tend to them as needed. Sometimes the labels can be slightly detached or need more protection against the light, dust, etc... I do what is needed to preserve them from harm.

Come with me I will show you around....


Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Latour 1945 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Latour 1945 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Cheval Blanc 1964 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Yquem 1973 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Yquem 1947 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Yquem 1950 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Lafite 1947 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©

Lafite 1961 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Haut Brion 1961 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©


Haut Brion 1959 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©

DRC RC 1991 & Petrus 1966
 - Le Pan Apicius Display Cellar - LeDomduVin ©

These are only a few of these gems, but it gives you an idea of the treasures that can be found in this cellar.

I will soon post more pictures like these, so stay tuned.

(I usually post them on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, yet posting them on my blog will allow more people to see these pieces of history)

To be continued in a next post...

Santé, 

LeDomduVin a.k.a. Dominique Noël

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