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- winecollector - 05-01-2000
Here's a question for those of you familiar with pre-World War II wines. I did an evaluation last fall of a woman's wine collection who moved over here to the United States in the early 1980's from Italy. Among her collection, was a bottle of Nebbiolo that was given to her as a gift from a vineyard she had toured while still living in Italy. The bottle had what I believed to be the date, 1930 "penned" on it in blue ink when I seen it. Examining the bottle closer, I noticed that the green glass was darker and noticeably thicker than our modern day bottles. In addition the cork looked different than any I have seen before- it was possibly made of some other type of soft wood. There was no doubt to me that the cork was the original- it looked extremely old and like it would be a real "bear" to get the thing out of there.
I was wondering, if any of you have ever come across older wines like this before, and if it was a common practice on Italian wines of that era for them not to print the vintage on the label originally with the rest of the label's contents? I really don't have any other way of verifying whether the "1930" penned on the bottle in blue ink is the actual vintage or not. Attempts to locate the winery have been unsuccessful so far. It may no longer be in existence.
What do you guys make of this?