Mystery Bottle---1962 Cormey Figeac?

Last night, we had our friends over for dinner. This was the test: we had turkey for dinner. You know that they are your good friends if you offer turkey, only a week after Thanksgiving and they still come for dinner. Well, the turkey was driven by economics since I found it on sale for 59 cents a pound. Who could resist. What we did was to make a turkey roll with three-mushroom (shiitake, button, and baby Portobella) and sausage stuffing. The appetizer was different cheeses, the star which was a Maytag blue cheese which we paired with the Torrontes from Alta Vista and the Triomphe Chardonnay from Southbrook.

Each of our friends brought over a red wine for dinner and we anted up the Hospices de Beaune. The 2010 Cereja came from Hood River, Oregon and a mystery bottle.

What we can clearly see is the vintage: 1962. Blowing up the photo shows that the first word is definitely "Cormey" what we are guessing on is that it is "Figeac". Another thing that can be discerned is that the Proprietor is R. Moreaud. Upon uncorking, we found that the cork was flush with the top of the bottle, showing no signs of storage mistreatment, and although it was totally saturated, came out intact, a testament to the fact that it was a very good cork when it began it's life in the bottle. So, how did this 50 year old wine taste? The couple who brought the wine thought that it would die a quick and ignoble death once the bottle was opened. Well, the context is that it is 50 years old and for some of us, it still was hanging in there. For others, it was way past it's prime tasting more like vinegar, but personally, I had a sip at the end of the evening and I liked the wine which I thought still clung on to it's vinous origins.