Romanee-Conti Burgundies from 1985 and 1990 led a Sotheby's wine auction in New York along with neighbouring La Tache from the 1960s and Chateau Petrus 1975 from Bordeaux.
Four bottles of Romanee-Conti 1985 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti sold for $58,188 to an Asian private collector, according to the auction house, while three bottles of Romanee-Conti 1990 DRC sold for $45,938. Twelve bottles of La Tache 1964 DRC fetched $55,125 from a US buyer. The sale, amounting to $2.3 million, brought Sotheby's total from New York wine auctions for the first half of the year to $10.2 million, amid indications collectors have appetite for older, rare wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux and also California and northern Italy.
The sale this month was "a sign of both a strong domestic and international market," Connor Kriegel, head of wine auction sales at Sotheby's New York, said. Twelve bottles of Chateau Petrus 1975 sold for $30,625 while four other 12-bottle lots of the same vintage from the grower also made it into the sale's top 10 list at $27,563 each.
