Sold: $ 2,239,140/£ 1,523,225/€ 1,763,102¹ | Lots Sold: 526 | Lots Offered: 595 | Sold by Lot: 88% | Sold by $: 94%

Christie’s New York sale of Fine & Rare Wines Featuring An Evening Session of the World’s Finest on May 7 & 8 totaled $2,239,1440/ £1,523,225/ €1,763,102 and was 88% sold by lot, 94% by value. The top 2 prices were for 6-bottle lots of 1990 Romanée-Conti, which sold for $156,000/£106,122 /€122,835. Buyers (by lot/by country) were 56% American, 24% Asian, and 15% European.

Charles Curtis, MW, Head of North American Wine Sales, comments: “Our two-part sale of Fine and Rare Wines got off to a blazing start on Friday evening with over $800,000 sold in under an hour. The top price of the evening was $156,000 for a six-bottle lot of 1990 Romanée-Conti. At $26,000 per bottle, this is the highest per-bottle price achieved for the U.S. auction market. The strong results continued on Saturday with excellent prices for the best vintages of Lafite, Latour, DRC, and California cult wines, and sell-through rates of 88% and 94% by lot and by value. Overall, the two-day total finished above our pre-sale high estimate – a solid reinforcement of the continuing upward trend in the global wine market.”

Top 3
Lot | Description | Estimate ($) | Purchase Price | Buyer
35 | Romanée-Conti–Vintage 1990 Côte de Nuits, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, 6 bottles | 90,000-120,000 | $156,000/£106,122/€122,835 | Anonymous
36 | Romanée-Conti–Vintage 1990 Côte de Nuits, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, 6 bottles | 90,000-120,000 | $156,000/£106,122/€122,835 | Anonymous
26 | Château Lafite-Rothschild–Vintage 1982 Pauillac, 1er cru classé 1 dozen bottles | 26,000-35,000 | $48,000/£32,653/€37,795 | Asian Trade

1. Exchange Rate: £ = $1.47/ € = $1.27 [↩]