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Romanee-Conti

Record Wine Lot Sold to Chinese Wine Lover

Filed under: Wine


There may be a global economic crunch these days but fine wine connoisseurs are not feeling its effects. Recently, $500,000 was paid for twenty-seven bottles of various vintages of Romanee Conti. The well-known Burgundy wines are not expected to be kept as an investment for the wealthy Chinese connoisseur that bought the lot which he most likely intends to enjoy himself. His purchase is the highest price paid for a single lot yet to date at the Antique Wine Company in London. If he feels like sharing I would be happy to taste a little Romanee Conti myself.

Case of Wine Sells For Over $170,000

Filed under: Wine, Auctions

Yet another wine record has been broken. At a Christie's auction in New York on Thursday, a six-magnum case of the famed 1985 Romanee-Conti from Burgundy sold for $170,375 dollars besting a Romanee-Conti record set only in January of $136,000 for the 1971 vintage. Each magnum is two bottles so the price works out to over $14,000 a bottle. According to the AFP, five other lots also went for over $100,000 including a double-magnum of Chateau Cheval-Blanc 1947 that went for $135,125 dollars. California wines are starting to get pricey too, a lot of 21 bottles of Napa Valley's Screaming Eagle spanning the 1995-2002 vintages sold for  $52,875 dollars.


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