Romanee Conti News
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Updated 2 hours, 57 minutes ago
Encarnacion Rivas, an 89-year-old Venezuelan retiree, had to traipse around a half-dozen stores in Caracas on her search for toilet paper as dollar shortages in South America’s biggest oil producer reduce supplies of imported goods.
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A case of Romanee-Conti 1996 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Burgundy carrying an upper estimate of $40,000 is top lot at Acker Merrall & Condit’s New York auction this week, along with wines from Chateau Petrus and Henri Jayer.
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Updated 3 hours, 4 minutes ago
Sixty-six magnums of Chateau Mouton- Rothschild spanning the period from 1945 to 2008 fetched 257,400 Swiss francs ($266,000) at a Christie’s International Plc wine auction in Geneva this week which raised $3.96 million.
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Three bottles of Chateau Petrus 2000 Pomerol fetched top price of 6,600 pounds ($10,100) at a sale of U.K. wine writer Hugh Johnson’s private collection at Sworders auction house north of London, according to its website.
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Eleven lots of 1982 Bordeaux wines, including eight cases of Chateau Latour and three double magnums of Chateau Petrus, are estimated to fetch as much as 12,000 pounds ($18,600) each at a Sotheby’s sale in London this month.
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U.S. prosecutors won permission to videotape three winemakers’ testimony in France for the Sept. 9 trial of alleged wine counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan because the harvest will keep them from traveling to New York.
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Three magnums of Romanee-Conti 2001 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Burgundy were top lot at an Acker Merrall & Condit wine auction in New York last week, fetching $61,500, while a case of La Tache 1978 sold for $59,040.
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An Asian online bidder last night paid $36,750 for an evening in Barcelona with Ferran Adria, the chef of El Bulli, winner of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants title a record five times.
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A collection of 66 magnums of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild spanning the years between 1945 and 2008 is poised to lead a two-day Christie’s International Plc wine auction in Geneva this month, according to its online catalog.
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A case of La Tache 1990 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti from Burgundy is among leading lots at a Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. auction in Chicago next month, along with a 12-bottle DRC 1978 Assortment and a case of Chateau Petrus 1990.
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