LONDON, Jan 30 ― Six bottles of 1982 Petrus from the Pomerol region of Bordeaux fetched £12,338 (RM72,790) at a Sotheby’s wine sale in London this week, according to an e-mailed statement from the auction house.
The price, paid by an Asian bidder, fell short of the upper estimate of £15,000 for the lot. Two six-bottle lots of the same estate’s 1998 and 2005 wine sold for £10,575 each.
The sale came as the fine wine market is showing signs of stabilising after a 40 per cent plunge in prices of many Bordeaux first growths. The London-based Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 Index of top Bordeaux fell just 0.7 per cent last year, bottoming out after five straight annual declines, as wines from the region competed with other areas including Burgundy and Italy.
“We kicked off the New Year with top prices for Bordeaux, and strong results for other regions,” especially grand cru white Burgundy and the Rhone, Stephen Mould, head of Sotheby’s Wine Europe, said in the statement.
Ten bottles of Chateau Latour 1982 sold for £10,340 while a 12-bottle case of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1996 fetched £6,463 and six bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2000 went for £5,405.
Six bottles of Lafite from the 2000 vintage sold for £5,170 and 12 bottles of the same estate’s 1998 wine fetched £4,700.
Sotheby’s is holding another sale in Hong Kong this weekend and has its next London auction scheduled for February 24. ― Bloomberg
