Lanzarote, Canary Islands

The Wine Story

A visit to this famous building, PALA­CIO DEL MAR­QUÉS is sit­u­ated in one of the most his­toric loca­tions of Lan­zarote in old village of Teguise. As history is written about this historic building, that through his nephew, MACIOT DE BÉTHEN­COURT, Lanzarote’s con­queror, JEAN DE BÉTHEN­COURT, appointed “King of the Canary Islands” by the Castil­lian King, Henry III, saw to the found­ing of the town in 1406 together with the erect­ing of some manor houses.

This building, known today as the PALA­CIO DEL MAR­QUÉS, was finished in 1455 after tak­ing 32 years to build, making it one the oldest building in Lanzarote. It was the head quar­ters of the Canarian gov­ern­ment for 270 years as well as serv­ing other pur­poses. Today the won­der­ful PALA­CIO, it’s court­yards, private rooms and secret passage ways, has become a Mecca for wine experts as well as those inter­ested in his­tory.

The recently deceased Jür­gen Jacobs, had col­lected wines all his life from all corners of the world, The collection of the world’s best wines dat­ing from the 19th and 20th cen­turies are stored and tended. This story of wine begins with exam­ples from „Teofilo Reyes” Cri­anza 1994,‘95,‘97 — named after the for­mer wine­maker of Pes­quera who had opened his own bodega. It stretches to „Pes­quera” by Ale­jan­dro Fer­nan­dez, which in 1982 was com­pared by the Amer­i­can Pope of Wine, Robert Parker Jr. with the most famous wine from Pomerol, “Petrus”. It also includes the cult wine Mas de Dau­mas Gas­sac by Aimee Guib­ert from the Langue­doc region in the south of France and wines from the years 1994,‘95 and ‘96 from Rib­era del Duero. There are wines from Pri­o­rat as well as Rioja, which in ten years will be the best and most expen­sive wines in the world.

The list con­tin­ues with the world famous Pre­mier Crus from Bor­deaux: Lafite, Latour, Mar­gaux, Haut-?Brion and Ch. Mou­ton Rothschild,1973 with the Picasso label. From Bur­gundy with „La Romanée Conti” and its wines „Richebourg”, „La Tache”, „Grand Echézeaux” and so on. From Côte Rotie the „La Turque”, ‘85 and ‘86. Two 100 point wines of the last cen­tury. As well as the „Unico” ‘68 and ’70 from Vega Sicilia. Sas­si­caia, Tig­nanello, Ornalaia, and so on from the best vin­tages of Italy and not to for­get the world famous wines from Ger­many. Ries­ling, Spät­bur­gun­der and the „Bocks­beu­tel” from Franken. A spe­cial rar­ity is a bot­tle of El Grifo from the year 1880, the old­est wine on Lan­zarote.

We have to empha­size the span­ish wines of the years 2000 (also in Bor­deaux) and 2001, the best wines that have ever been pressed in Spain. With an inter­na­tional assess­ment of 94 or rather 95 points. The best of those top wines you can even taste in the „Patio del Vino”.

The complete collection will NOT be sold in seperate lots, but as the whole collection, and is being offered at a price of €1,000,000.

See PDF file below for further details.

winelist

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