Romanee-Conti

Spectrum Wines Spans The Pacific With Simultaneous Auction On Two Different Days

There's no denying that the rare wine market is huge in Hong Kong. Spectrum Wine Auctions is set to capitalize on that with an auction this summer that puts them in two places at once. The wine auction specialists will offer 575 lots in its next fine and rare wine live auction simultaneously on Friday, June 25 at Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California, at 6 p.m. PDT, and on Saturday, June 26 at the Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, Hong Kong, at 9 a.m. HKT. Bidders will have the opportunity to bid live, via fax and telephone, and via the internet in real time at www.spectrumwine.com. Small bites and various wines will be offered throughout the session and attendance is open to the public and is free of charge.

The June auction features abundance of 100-point Parker wines and has an estimate of $3.5 million. Highlights include 12 bottles of 1978 Romanée Conti estimated at $150,000. Also up for bid will be more highlights from the collection of Aubrey McClendon including 1982 and 1986 Château Mouton Rothschild, 1996 and 2003 Château Lafite Rothschild, and 1997 and 2001 Harlan, other fine properties for sale include Château Haut Brion from 1945-2006, Château Latour spanning 1928-2006, a full cadre of Domaine de la Romanée Conti from 1953-2005, and Screaming Eagle from 1995-2007. A Nebuchadnezzar (15L) of 2005 Château d'Yquem in original presentation wood case, numbered #28 out of 100 is estimated at $17,500.

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Record Wine Lot Sold to Chinese Wine Lover

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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.

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Case of Wine Sells For Over $170,000

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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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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