News — Old Bordeaux

A sale drawn directly from Château Haut-Brion’s cellars has delivered one of early October’s most compelling fine-wine stories. Reported on October 5, the Sotheby’s auction raised €3.4 million and attracted participants from 29 countries, bringing nearly a century of the estate’s history into the collector market.

Christie’s expects the sale to realize at least HK$26 million, or about US$3.31 million. The auction opens the house’s 60th-anniversary celebrations for its Wines and Spirits department, nearly six decades after Christie’s held its first wine auction in London in 1966.