Foam vs froth: El Bulli wine cellar to be auctioned
Just when the wine auction market’s froth appeared to be blowing off, the fine wine world is bracing for some foam.
El Bulli, the famed restaurant where the entire season used to book up in minutes and futuristic dishes paraded before diners all night long, closed last year (but will reopen as the ElBullifoundation). Now, wine-searcher.com reports that the owners will be selling off the contents of the restaurant’s wine cellar.
The collection has many mature wines and it remains to be seen what the estimated 10,000 bottles will fetch at an upcoming Sotheby’s auction. But perhaps the big question for bidders as well as chef Ferran Adria and his partner Juli Soler is whether they will apply the same creativity in the sale as they did in the kitchen. Thirteen-year-old albarino may fetch one price, but what about doing the food-wine pairing for collectors and selling an essence of oyster and albarino microfoam served on the half shell? Or an orb of Corton-Charlemagne lobster? Or reformed into already-fermented grapes with “with their mad sphere-making gadgets and such“? With such an imprimatur, the wines would be harder to counterfeit.
On August 11th, 2012 at 11:40 pm ,David J wrote:
Hmmm…is it me, the computer or the list? Can’t seem to load the pdf…
On August 14th, 2012 at 11:32 am ,Richard M wrote:
Yep, same problem with me, seems that the PDF is corrupt…?
On August 14th, 2012 at 11:39 am ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Hi – I just clicked the link and it worked for me. So not sure how to direct you further…
On August 14th, 2012 at 11:43 am ,Richard M wrote:
Strange, still not working for me, and I’m using Adobe on Windows 7 so there shouldn’t be any software issues…? Is there a way that you could upload the PDF yourself on the Dr Vino site perhaps?
On August 14th, 2012 at 2:31 pm ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Okay, try clicking here.
On August 14th, 2012 at 11:36 pm ,David J wrote:
Worked! Thanks for taking the trouble.
On August 15th, 2012 at 3:54 am ,Richard M wrote:
Worked! Thanks for going to the trouble!
On August 15th, 2012 at 12:02 pm ,David J wrote:
Ditto! Thanks, Dr.TVC!
On October 31st, 2012 at 1:06 pm ,Michael wrote:
Hi there – any chance you might know anything about El Bulli stemware?
Just saw Bourdain’s second (and last) El Bulli tribute and couldn’t help but notice the unusual (and beautifful) stemware. Saw one vague web reference to Riedel but think we know the entire range and they didn’t match. Was this a bespoke design? Will some stemware also go to auction?
Thanks!