I live in London and have a few botles of wine that I would like valued. I will mention 2 of them as examples:
1)1972 Grand Vin du chateau phelan segur, saint estephe
2)1978 Chateau La Croix de berny Puisseguin saint emilion.
Can anyone help me ???
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