An outstanding array of the best personal wine (& spirits) collections
Geneva, 1 December 2022 – On Sunday 27 November, Baghera/wines achieved a wonderful consequence at this eagerly anticipated stay public sale. Moonlight, an exceptional array of the best personal wine (& spirits) collections – acclaimed by the wine and spirits neighborhood because the “quintessential assortment” – the sale drew essentially the most discerning wine collectors to Geneva. There have been additionally a number of worldwide on-line bidders. Greater than 1,500 bottles, magnums, and large-format bottles of near-perfect high quality unfold over 192 tons, discovered consumers. The stay public sale of the season, broadcast from the Beau-Rivage Resort in Geneva, grossed CHF 2,299,822 /$2,414,813/€ 2,334,319.
The spotlight of the sale, lot #16, a vertical of 36 Vega Sicilia “Unico” magnums, was offered to a phone bidder for CHF 109,800. This distinctive vertical consists of all of the vintages marketed in magnums, produced by Vega Sicilia – unanimously acclaimed and recognised as Spain’s most prestigious and emblematic property. The “Unico” is, as Pablo Álvarez Mezquiriz, CEO of Bodegas Vega Sicilia, likes to explain it: now a tamed wild beast, tender and structured, majestically bearing all of the hallmarks of the best vintages.
After the sale, Michael Ganne and Julie Carpentier, founders of Baghera/wines and auctioneers, stated: “Impressed by a non-public European collector, Moonlight rapidly grew to become often known as the quintessential excellent assortment. Everybody was capable of finding which means in it, beginning with lovers of world-renowned French terroirs, by means of the best vineyards of Spain, Italy and abroad, to world-renowned Australian and Californian vineyards. That is an eclectic sale that can undoubtedly replicate what is going to entice collectors within the coming months, and we sense a powerful curiosity in respectable European vineyards, because the bidder for lot 16 rightly realised. Baghera/wines continues to develop, guiding its purchasers with experience and self-discipline, whereas guaranteeing the provenance and impeccable high quality of every of the bottles offered.”
Pablo Álvarez Mezquiriz, CEO of Bodegas Vega Sicilia, added: “Vega Sicilia has been a household enterprise for the reason that Nineteen Eighties, and our values all converge on two foremost themes, the primary being consistency in product high quality as a assure for all our vintages. The second extra particularly human precept is our dedication to purchasers. The consequence for this set of 36 magnums on the Baghera/wines Moonlight sale is a crowning achievement for our ‘Unico’. Beforehand often known as Spain’s biggest wine, it has in recent times joined the very personal circle of the world’s biggest wines. »
