GONDARD MEDALS. Great French Wines. Claude GONDARD. Suite of 9 silver medals for BORDEAUX wines: Château(s) Haut-Brion, Giscours, Cheval Blanc. BOURGOGNE: Château(s) de Pommard, de Gevrey. COTE ROTIE: La Moulinie. CHAMPAGNE: Bollinger, Veuve Clicquot, Roederer. circa 1990. Medals in Plexiglas cases. Medals weigh approximately 360 grams (40 g. each). Claude Gondard produced some 300 medals for the Monnaie de Paris, around fifty of which were devoted to wine. In particular, between 1988 and 1992, he produced a series of some forty medals on fine French wines with Serge Tchekhoff, who runs a fine wine estate in the Bordeaux region. This collection, struck in silver by the Monnaie de Paris, brings together many of the finest jewels in the crown of French viticulture. More specifically, the medals are "belle épreuve" quality, 41 mm in diameter, struck in 1st quality silver.