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Note: This item is a 20th-century historical artifact: an empty wine bottle that carries documented provenance from the 1976 Heublein Premiere National sale of Rare Wines. The bottle’s label identifies it as "Bin 44, Newton Gordon 1824 Bual," referring to the historic 1824 vintage of Madeira produced by the prestigious firm Newton & Gordon. This piece is a tangible memento of one of the most significant wine sale series in American history, which helped establish the secondary market for rare, vintage wines.
Offered is a glass vessel from the 1976 Heublein Premiere National sale, held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans. The bottle retains its original period sale labels and a gold-foil acquisition seal dated May 27, 1976. The bottle itself is a heavy, dark-tinted glass consistent with traditional Madeira bottling. It features an aged wax capsule at the neck and retains a handwritten lot number sticker ("664/665"), consistent with sale cataloging procedures. This is a display-grade artifact for a cellar, library, or bar, representing a specific moment in the evolution of wine collecting.
Age: Bottle/Provenance: 1976 (sale Year); Vintage of contained wine: 1824.
Glass Manufacturing Note: Consistent with the traditional production of historic, long-aged fortified wines, this heavy, dark-tinted glass vessel features an asymmetrical hand-tooled applied lip and finish characteristic of late-19th-century glassblowing (circa 1885–1900). Because historic firms like Newton & Gordon aged premium vintages extensively in casks and large glass demijohns before final bottling, the late-Victorian glass perfectly aligns with the timeline of an 1824 vintage cellared for decades prior to its eventual commercial bottling and subsequent 1976 Heublein sale debut.
Material: Dark-tinted heavy glass, original paper labels, gold-foil provenance seal, wax capsule.
Condition: Excellent display condition. The glass exhibits natural surface patina and dust from storage. Labels show age-appropriate wear, confirming their authenticity as part of the 1976 sale lot.
Reference
Book: Premiere National sale of Rare Wines (Official sale Catalog Series).
Author: Heublein, Inc.
Context: These catalogs documented the emergence of the "Second Golden Age of Wine" in the 1970s and provide the primary provenance for this specific bottle.
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