Et parti Château d'Yquem solgt for tre ganger estimatet på Sotheby's
16.04.08
Chãteau d'yquem wines sell for triple estimate at sotheby's in london
By Scott Reyburn
April 17 (Bloomberg) -- A lot containing 136 bottles of Chateau d'Yquem sold yesterday for 368,000 pounds ($725,000) with fees at Sotheby's, London, more than triple its estimate.
The price was the highest for a single lot at a wine auction by the auction house in London, which had estimated the bottles at 100,000 pounds. The buyer was a European private collector, who New York-based Sotheby's did not name in an e- mailed release.
Chateau d'Yquem is described by writer Robert Parker Jr. as ``the favorite sweet wine of millionaires.'' Sotheby's lot, containing 70 vintages ranging from 1892 to 2001, had been sourced directly from the cellars of the chateau itself.
``Wines of such exceptional provenance sell for well in excess of high estimate,'' said Stephen Mould, head of Sotheby's European wine department. He said the lot had attracted interest from Europe and Asia and had been ``vigorously'' contested by two telephone bidders and a bidder in the room.
The auction record for any wine lot sold at Sotheby's remains the $1.05 million with fees paid in New York in November, 2006, for a collection of 50 cases of Chateau Mouton Rothschild from the 1982 vintage.
(Scott Reyburn writes about the art market for Bloomberg News. Any opinions expressed are his own.)
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Last Updated: April 16, 2008 21:10 EDT
Om samme sak skriver Decanter:
Yquem sales break records
April 24, 2008, Decanter.com
Maggie Rosen
Sotheby's and Fine & Rare Wines in London have both broken their own records with recent sales of Chateau d'Yquem.
On 16 April, Sotheby's sold a 136-bottle collection of Yquem covering 70 vintages for £368,000 ($725,132) to a private buyer - breaking the London auctioneers' record for a single wine lot.
And Lee Zinser of Cellarworks confirmed that the bottle was bought on behalf of one its own clients 'for a very special project'.
Stephen Mould, head of Sotheby's European wine department said the house's record-breaking lot went for over three times the estimate.
'This shows there are still people out there with good taste and money,' he said. 'We think the buyer has bought this to drink, not to put it in a warehouse somewhere.'
Sotheby's previous record was a lot of over 300 bottles from Andrew Lloyd Webber's cellar which in 1997 sold for £242,000.
Simon Davies, head of marketing for Fine & Rare, said, 'We sell an awful lot of grand cru claret but this was exceptionally rare for us. We actually had two bottles of the so-called "comet vintage" to choose from, and the buyer picked this one especially because it had been reconditioned by the Chateau in 1996.'
Fine & Rare currently has several single- and multi-bottle consignments of old Yquem on its books, including a bottle of 1847 for £33,141. Sotheby's London will be auctioning a magnum of 1945, as well as 12 bottles of 1976 as part of a sale on 21 May