Bottles of wine from famous restaurant to go on auction

(16 Oct 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Exterior of the Tour d'Argent restaurant
2. Close of sign reading "La Tour d'Argent" above entrance
3. Mid shot inside restaurant with Notre Dame cathedral seen through the window
4. Close of a table
5. Set up shot of Andre Terrail, owner of the Tour d'Argent restaurant, looking at wine list
6. Close of wine list
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Andre Terrail, owner of the Tour d'Argent restaurant:
"Now is the time we thought to sell just a small selection of the wine cellar because 18,000 out of 450,000 is just a very small portion. It's a wonderful way to make it breathe, make some small adjustments here and there and carry on buying wines for the next vintages."
8. Pan from bell ringing outside the wine cellar to chief sommelier David Ridgway arriving and saying "Welcome to the Tour d'Argent cellars, please follow me"
9. Tracking shot of David Ridgway walking inside the cellar
10. Mid of David Ridgway taking a bottle of wine from shelf
11. SOUNDBITE (English) David Ridgway, chief sommelier at the Tour d'Argent restaurant:
"We have these wines we could keep for another 20, 30 years, but at the same time if we want to buy young vintages like the 2009 that have been produced which are great vintage in France generally, if we want to buy that we're going to have to make space for them. So to make space for them, we have to sell more than we are selling actually. So ..."
12. Close-up of bottles on shelves
13. Shot of Andre Terrail entering the wine cellar and looking at bottles
14. Close-up of bottles of Xeres from 1830 and Porto from 1887
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Andre Terrail, owner of the Tour d'Argent restaurant:
"What is absolutely exceptional in the selection of wines that we are proposing is the fact that the wines have been perfectly kept during all those years. We always say that the wines have only made one trip from the wine makers to our wine cellars. Until then they have not moved."
16. Close up of the Clos du Griffier Cognac from 1788
17. Mid shot of the Clos du Griffier Cognac from 1788
18. SOUNDBITE (English) David Ridgway, chief sommelier at the Tour d'Argent restaurant:
"We have a sentimental value because obviously they are the oldest bottles in the cellar, but maybe our sentiments are not reality so it will be interesting to see."
19. Mid of very old bottles on shelves
20. Set up of Alexis Velliet, auctioneer at Piasa auction house
21. SOUNDBITE (French) Alexis Velliet, auctioneer:
"For a wine connoisseur, it's the top, the top of choice, of conservation. It's obviously very rewarding to organise it and I hope that the connoisseurs will participate in the auction one way or the other."
22. Mid shot of auction book
STORYLINE
Over the years, the chief sommelier had forgotten they were there.
And when the four bottles of 1875 Armagnac Vieux were finally unearthed from the labyrinthine wine cellar this week, they were covered in a black fungus that looked like matted cat fur.
The landmark Tour d'Argent restaurant in Paris, which dates back to 1582, is cleaning out its 450,000-bottle wine cellar - one of the best in the world - and putting 18,000 bottles up for auction in December, an event that has captured the imagination of French wine lovers.
The restaurant is selling mostly wine but also some very old spirits, like three bottles of a Clos du Griffier Cognac from 1788, the year before the French Revolution, as well as the ancient Armagnac, valued at 400 - 500 euros (595 -743 US dollars) a bottle.
The fuzzy fungus is nothing to worry about - it thrives on the fumes of such spirits and often grows on long-aged bottles.

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