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Taylor's UK agents
Posted: 05:23 Tue 29 Sep 2015
by uncle tom
An odd bottle. Accompanied by three Croft 60's and a '72 crusted, the auction lot included a bottle of Taylor's First Estate.
The modern stencilling on the bottle could have come straight off the shelves of Tesco, but the capsule is rather plain and the wine has lost some colour. I studied the bottle for any clue to age, and noticed that it had been shipped by Deinhard.
Anyone know in which year Mentzendorff took over the Taylor agency?
Re: Taylor's UK agents
Posted: 06:18 Tue 29 Sep 2015
by DRT
The
company website says that they became the agent's of Taylor shortly before 1990. See the entry covering the tenure of Antony Mallaby as Managing Director.
Re: Taylor's UK agents
Posted: 06:34 Tue 29 Sep 2015
by uncle tom
Well spotted - I scanned that page but thought it was just personal biographies..
Re: Taylor's UK agents
Posted: 12:48 Fri 02 Oct 2015
by idj123
uncle tom wrote:An odd bottle. Accompanied by three Croft 60's and a '72 crusted, the auction lot included a bottle of Taylor's First Estate.
The modern stencilling on the bottle could have come straight off the shelves of Tesco, but the capsule is rather plain and the wine has lost some colour. I studied the bottle for any clue to age, and noticed that it had been shipped by Deinhard.
Anyone know in which year Mentzendorff took over the Taylor agency?
Indirect proof that I failed to secure that particular lot!
Re: Taylor's UK agents
Posted: 12:55 Fri 02 Oct 2015
by uncle tom
Indirect proof that I failed to secure that particular lot!
Remember the quote from Churchill:
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.