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Acker, Merrall–And The “Icemen”–In Chicago
January 27, 2012Acker, Merrall and Condit may have seasonally titled its first wine sale of 2012 “The Icemen Cometh,” but even in Chicago, it’s expecting a warm result. The world’s top selling wine auctioneer in 2011 will be offering 726 lots at the January 28th event, the highest valued of which is a 12-bottle assortment of 1985 Domaine de la Romanee Conti including 3 bottles of La Tache, 2 of St. Vivant-lstdc, and 3 of Echezeaux. It’s estimated at $40,000-$60,000.
Read more...Records Fall At Acker Merrall Hong Kong Sale
December 13, 2011The general news about Acker Merrall & Condit’s recent sale in Hong Kong was certainly upbeat: the company sold 92% of over 800 lots offered for a total of $9.09m. The specific news was even better. A superlot of 55 bottles of DRC Romanee Conti containing every vintage released between 1952 and 2007 sold for an astounding $813,333—or almost $15,000 a bottle. That was the highest price paid for a lot of wine this year, as well as the highest every paid for a lot of Romanee Conti at auction.
Read more...Burgundy Scores Records in Hong Kong
November 07, 2011It was getting repetitive: another wine auction, more record prices for Bordeaux, so this past weekend in Hong Kong sparked a notable change when record prices were set for burgundies at the Acker Merrall & Condit auction that reaped $14.45m in two days. Nearly every lot was sold at prices exceeding expectations. The big draw was Part II of Don Stott’s burgundy collection.
Read more...Shipwreck Champagne Pops To $43,630
June 06, 2011An online bidder in Singapore paid a world record $43,630 on Friday for a single bottle of vintage Veuve Cliquot champagne. Found in a 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic, the bottle is thought to have been produced between 1811 and 1830. It was part of a cache of 145 bottles that had been on their way to Tsar Nicholas 1. A second bottle of champagne by Juglar, a company that ceased to exist in the early 19th century, sold for $35,000 at the auction in Aland Finland.
Read more...The Oldest Champagne In The World?
April 21, 2011Last July in the Baltic Sea divers found a trove of 168 bottles of champagne in a 200-year old shipwreck. Acker Merrall & Condit will offer two of these bottles, believed to be the world’s oldest champagne, at an auction in Mariehamn, capital of the autonomous province in Finland that owns the wine. One is a Veuve-Clicquot, and the other an extinct brand called Juglar. Each is expected to sell in the neighborhood of $145,000.
Read more...Acker Concludes Strong Hong Kong Wine Sale
January 24, 2011At its first Hong Kong wine auction of 2011 Acker Merrall & Condit achieved a $10.8 million result, almost double Sotheby’s totals for its recent Hong Kong sale that included the Andrew Lloyd Webber collection. Acker offered over 1200 lots at the two-day auction on January 21-22, when the top seller was an eight-bottle lot of 1985 Henri Jayer Richebourg for $100,103.
Read more...Wine Turns Gold In Hong Kong
September 22, 2010The Hong Kong wine market continues to soar, as demonstrated by this past weekend’s record-breaking sales at Acker Merrall & Condit and Christie’s. The two houses reeled in over $15 million, with every bottle at both auctions selling.
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