Does anyone know anything about these two bottles?

Does anyone know anything about these two bottles?

I could find very little online, so I appeal to your collective wisdom.

Don't know much, but if you want to send them out to me I will forward you the tasting notes.

I surfed some wine sites and I think it's safe to say that these are very minor Bordeaux of very minor value. The best I would hope for is that the wine inside is drinkable.

http://www.wine-searcher.com
will help with value

https://www.cellartracker.com/Default.asp
will help with TNs

Damien Casten, a wine enthusiast who knows a friend of mine, responded on FB:

"At the root, both are Merlot based with Lalande de Pomerol sometimes being a deeper sort of fruit that Saint-Emillion, but that's a grotesque generalization that would never hold up in court. 1992 was a thin year in Bordeaux and aged versions that I have had (a few year's ago) were somewhat lean and not holding a whole lot of promise - there was a lot of rain. 2000 was the greatest vintage ever for a while, in critics eyes, and the wines are generally still drinking well. The problem with St. Emillion Grand Cru is that the appellation was co-opted by the political process so that everyone and his neighbor earned status, even if they were not on the central hill. It's a crap shot as to quality, but I would have much higher hopes for an attractive, mellow, broad wine that probably has a nice combination of earthy, gamey, leathery flavors along with red fruit. I would expect the fruit to come out slowly - I do not think you need to decant unless it looks like there is a lot of sediment, but I would not open this for 10 people - the pleasure may be lost if everyone has a small amount and the wine is gone too quickly. My guess is that this is one to open while cooking, taste, and then finish at the table."

TomInSkokie wrote:I surfed some wine sites and I think it's safe to say that these are very minor Bordeaux of very minor value. The best I would hope for is that the wine inside is drinkable.

Well, I will say this: the wines were drinkable if not, by a wide margin, great. Somewhat thin, with the hint that just a few months more would have rendered them undrinkable, the St. Emilion was decent with duck, with just a memory of fruit and a lot of acid.

I do remember a friend, who knows Bordeaux better than I do, once saying tartly in response to an enthusiastic recommendation that "it's a Grand Cru!"--- "In St. Emilion, everything is a Grand Cru."