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The Million Dollar Wine Cabinet

Filed under: Decor, Wine

The Antique Wine Company has announced the completion of the next four in its series of nine architectural cabinets featuring the most celebrated Châteaux in Bordeaux. The collectors' items were commissioned by The Antique Wine Company from LINLEY and feature Château d'Yquem, Château Haut-Brion, Château La Mission Haut-Brion and Château Petrus. This follows the Château Margaux architectural cabinet, the first of which was bought by the château itself.

The bespoke cabinets contain 18 bottles of wine, the finest vintages produced during the 20th and 21st centuries, with the Yquem model, shown above, accompanied by a complete vertical collection of Château d'Yquem spanning 141 consecutive vintages from 1868 to the latest current release. This ultimate collection also includes several letters and memorabilia retrieved from the Château archives during the Lur Saluces era and will be sold by The Antique Wine Company during September 2010 by private negotiation and expected to realize a value of over $1 million. The other châteaux are each priced at £149,000.

As Château Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion celebrate the 75th anniversary of the acquisition of Château Haut-Brion by Clarence Dillon, one of the Château Haut-Brion cabinets is being shown for the first time during Masterpiece London, which runs from through June 29. Others yet to be released by The Antique Wine Company in the series are: Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Latour and Château Cheval Blanc.

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Antique Wine Company's New iPhone App

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Filed under: Gadgets, Wine

The Antique Wine Company has launched a new free app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that has something for wine lovers at all levels. Among its many features is a series of 80+ podcasts covering everything you could ever want to know from the principles of wine tasting and understanding wine jargon to food and wine pairings, building a fine wine cellar, and even tips on wine investment. Each podcast is only about 2 1/2 minutes long, so you can easily find time to listen, and new ones will be added regularly.

The app also offers the ability to browse through more than 2,000 of the world's finest and rarest wines, sorting them by price, region, or vintage with links to the Antique Wine Company website to make inquiring and purchasing wine easy and convenient.

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