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- Xcoach98 - 04-16-2000

Have 1951 Orvieto with C. Serchi, Certaldo, Italy...4/5 quart beautiful bottle...any value known would be greatly appreciated.


- mrdutton - 04-17-2000

This board has numerous postings requesting values for single bottles. But there are no definitive answers.

Single bottle sales are usually private sales and do not involve auctions. The auction sales usually involve case lots and larger bottles from magnums on up the scale.

Assuming your wine has been properly stored all these years, I'd suggest you plan a nice intimate evening with friends or loved one's.

Have the bottle at the ready for opening and drinking, but make DARN sure you have a back-up in case you open a bottle of vinegar or some other ghastley solution...... which you very well may have. (You said the bottle was impressive. Remove the contents and keep the bottle!?!)

I can find no reference to the producer and my own database for vintages does not go as far back as your wine's year. This white wine comes from west, central Italy, in a region that is north of Rome in the southwest corner of Umbria.

My source of information for the wine is somehwhat disparaging. It says that the wine was once "dismissed as cheap and nasty".

Then it goes on to say that a handful of producers such as Antinori and Bigi are pioneering the renaissance of Orvieto.

I have had some modern-day Orvieto (1997) and found it to be rather pleasant, especially with light types of fish and shell fish. Unfortunately, I've never tried any of the older wines.

Also, please bear in mind that most white wines are meant to be drunk relatively young. Somewhere within one to five years of their production. That a white would hold-up from 1951 is, therefore, kinda unlikely.

Other's who correspond on this board may certainly have a better answer, but you've gotten, I think, a decent, generic answer from me.