Fine wine sales at Bonhams

Date: 21.10.2005 Source: news agency "Russian Antique"

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One of the most successful Bonhams▓ fine wine auctions took place in London on September 27. A world record price was achieved for a single bottle of champagne. A Methuselah of Louis Roederer Cristal 1990 fetched a stunning $14,730. The important sales totaled more than $700,000.

The Methuselah√ which holds six liters, the equivalent of eight standard bottles √ is bottle number 1,333 of 2,000 produced by Roederer to commemorate the millennium, and is one of few such bottlings that has appreciated significantly in value. It fetched the highest price ever paid for a single bottle of champagne sold at auction.

A collection of vintage champagne from a private Belgian cellar also attracted great interest and prices to reflect this; a half case of Dom Perignon 1966 fetched $1,965, and nine bottles of Billecart-Salmon from 1966, 1967 and 1969 sold for $2,326 √ some five times the estimate.

A case of vintage 1961 Latour a Pomerol wine, bottled in Belgium by M.G. Lafitte, sold for $32,560, and a separate lot of six bottles fetched $16,279. The continued popularity of fine claret was also reflected by the prices achieved for several vintages of Petrus: two bottles of 1964 fetched $2,713; a single bottle of 1966, $930; a dozen bottles of 1971, $12,597; six bottles of 1989, $7,753, and a dozen bottles of 1996, $5,815. A case of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild fetched $3,876, Chateau Latour $3,488 and Chateau Margaux $3,682.