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Valuable Vintages At Hong Kong Sales

Wine Turns Gold In Hong Kong

September 22, 2010

The 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.

920  lots sold for $8.8 million at Aker—fully 30% above their highest estimates–while Christie’s scored $6.2 million. Together with Sotheby’s, the three leading wine sellers in Hong Kong are expected to bring in a record $200 million this year, which would double last year’s profits. The big draw: the “trophy” label Bordeaux.

Read more at The Epoch Times.



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Acker, Merrall–And The “Icemen”–In Chicago

January 27, 2012

Acker, 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.

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Records Fall At Acker Merrall Hong Kong Sale

December 13, 2011

The 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.

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Burgundy Scores Records in Hong Kong

November 7, 2011

It 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.

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