"cwdjrxyz" > wrote in message
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> On Aug 6, 6:46 am, wrote:
>> Wondering if Lafite, Latour, Morton and Margaux bottles carry unique
>> serial numbers and if there is any way of tracking these online? I
>> know Roederer have experimented with this system as a means of
>> establishing provenance but not sure about the first growths... Thanks
>> in advance.
>> TK
>
> A few top Burgandy wines have bottle numbers and sometimes tell how
> many bottles were produced. Examples are the wines of the Domaine
> Romanee-Conti. They have been doing it a long time.A 1959 La Tache has
> both a bottle number and the total bottles produced on the label. Also
> Comde Vogue's Musigny Vieilles Vignes 1949 has a bottle number on the
> label.
>
> I did not find bottle numbers on any of the Bordeaux I have, including
> all of the first growths - not even on Petrus, Ausone, and Yquem. If
> any of these use bottle numbers, it would have to have started
> recently, as the bottles I checked were older ones.
>
>
Neither Petrus, nor Ausone, & Yquem are "first growths".

Kent