Mystery Owner's Wine Collection Draws $29.8 Million at Auction
- Lots of Mouton Rothschild come with invite to Versailles
- Four-day sale at Sotheby’s includes whisky, Chinese Moutai
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A wine collection of almost 17,000 bottles from a single cellar -- including grand cru Burgundies and first-growth Bordeaux -- has sold for $29.8 million at auction, Sotheby’s said.
A three-day sale that kicked off on Friday in Hong Kong featured more than 275 lots of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti spanning more than five decades. Top Bordeaux included La Mission Haut-Brion 1945 and Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1961. The top lot was 12 bottles of the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-Conti 1990 that sold for $348,000 (HK$2.78 million).