Sotheby’s Auction Of The Century Dazzles Wine World

The 'auction of the century' at Sotheby’s in December.

A dazzling array of French wines from practically all the great vintages and estates were sold.

A whopping £2.4m was raised for the single owner;that represents the 87.9% sold by lot, and 96% by value.

Petrus proved to be the most expensive, with six magnums of the Pomerol estate’s 1989 vintage raising £30,550. A case of Guigal’s Cote Rotie La Mouline 1978 fetched £22,325.

Seven bottles of Latour 1961 sold for £16,450.

On a per-bottle basis, the dearest of the lot were three bottles of 1947 Cheval Blanc, which made £17,625 (nearly £6,000 each).

It was the highest overall London total in over a decade at Sotheby’s for a single-owner sale

as well as being the best figure in 2015 for a London wine sale at the New Bond Street auctioneers.

Their head of wines for Europe, Stephen Mould said he was delighted at the overwhelming response.

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