Christie’s mentioned the Geneva-based sale, which included greater than 400 bottles of Domaine Ponsot wines cut up into 261 tons, achieved a complete of round CHF1.345m (virtually £1.2m).
All tons discovered consumers within the public sale, held to mark Domaine Ponsot’s a hundred and fiftieth anniversary, Christie’s mentioned.
Its outcomes once more spotlight high Burgundy’s attract. The attraction of wines sourced direct from the Domaine can also have impressed robust bidding.
Previous to the sale, Edwin Vos, head of Christie’s’ worldwide wine and spirits division, described ‘a as soon as in a lifetime alternative to amass wines from the [Domaine’s] library assortment, in addition to by no means earlier than launched giant codecs of the well-known Clos de la Roche and different grand crus’.
Sale highlights included a two-magnum lot of Clos de la Roche, Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 1985, which fetched CHF52,500 (£46,500; pre-sale excessive estimate: CHF20,000).
A magnum of Griotte-Chambertin 1990 fetched CHF10,625 (excessive e: CHF3,000), and a magnum of Clos de la Roche 1959, recorked within the Nineteen Nineties, fetched CHF35,000 (excessive e: CHF20,000).
Three bottles of Ponsot, Morey-St-Denis ‘Monts Luisants’ (Blanc, Aligoté) fetched CHF8,750 (excessive e: CHF1,300). It featured one bottle every of the 1961, 1966 and 1969 vintages, recorked in direction of the top of the Nineteen Nineties, Christie’s’ public sale notes mentioned.
A charity lot, that includes a barrel of Clos de la Roche, Cuvée Hippolyte 2022, bought to a Taiwanese collector for CHF175,000 (excessive e: CHF100,000), together with purchaser’s premium, Christie’s mentioned.
Hammer-price proceeds from this lot can be donated to the charity ‘A Chacun son Everest’, which helps youngsters troubled by most cancers or leukaemia, the public sale home added.
‘Domaine Ponsot is among the most extremely regarded Burgundy wine producers with a protracted historical past going again to 1872,’ mentioned Vos.
Robust ends in the public sale additionally ‘reveal Christie’s’ worldwide outreach, and the worldwide demand for excellent Burgundy wines from each present purchasers and new collectors’, he mentioned.
Christie’s mentioned 21% of public sale registrants have been first-time bidders.
