A “Rare” Nacional

[Julian D. A. Wiseman]

Andy Velebil has asked that I post this on , and I’m happy to oblige.

Auction, Christie’s, 20 July 1978.

(Reproduced by kind permission of Christie’s; my picture #24589.)

I particularly liked NN27 being described as “Rare”.

The handwriting is unclear: the sale price is £210.

[Andy Velebil]

As I said on TPF, Don't this throw a monkey wrench in things. In reality, it doesn't really surprise me. I've learned a long time ago, the Douro is a place where dates are always in flux, everyone was "the first" to do this or that, seemingly everyone bought/sold wine to/from everyone else at some point in history, and wines that never existed exist.