1861 Wine - TRASH or TREASURE? Tasting RARE Cellar Findings

Support me on my PATREON:   / konstantinbaum   Follow me on ...:   / konstantinbaum_mw   Check out my website: https://baumselection.com/ I use this wine key: Forge de Laguiole Ebony I have used this glass in this Video: Gabriel StandArt The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com): 96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume. 90 - 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines. 80 - 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws. 70 - 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine. 60 - 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors. 50 - 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable. I get a lot of messages from people that go a little like that: I have found these wines in my grandfather’s cellar – are they any good? My parents have left their wine collection to me – do you think I will survive tasting these wines? Today I am going to show you how to separate the delicious from the dead, the good from the bad, and the trash from the treasure. And I will taste wines that are roughly 20, 50, 60, and 160 years old. Wine is a magical product. It can improve with time and get better and better over the years. But there is a moment when even the best wine turns to vinegar. Regardless, when it comes to old cellars many people have the expectations that they have hit gold when they inherit a “collection”. However, in many cases, your grandparents or parents would have opened or sold the good wine already and what is left is most of the time the leftovers. That’s not to say that these bottles cannot be interesting – they might – but when people present these collections to me they are not collectible First Growths but instead mediocre wines that are too old. So let's go through these four wines, and I will tell you what I look at when going through old wine collections.