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16 Feb 2007
A record-breaking vintage
Supplier: The Antique Wine Company
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The Antique Wine Company has announced the record-breaking sale of 135 bottles of the world's rarest Sauternes wine.
The collection of Chateau d'Yquem was sold to the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera for the unprecedented sum of £775,000 / US$1.5m / Euro1.15m.
Housed in two bespoke walnut cabinets designed by Royal furniture maker David Linley, the collection spans three centuries and includes every consecutive vintage of Chateau d'Yquem produced between 1860 and 2003.
It is the most extensive living archive of the world's most famous dessert wine ever to come to market and it is reported that not even the Chateau itself holds all of these vintages in its cellars.
The collection included nine empty bottles, signed by the director of Yquem to represent the years when no wine was made due to adverse climatic conditions
The sale attracted intense interest, seeing the Antique Wine Company coordinating a fierce bidding process with potential buyers from Japan, the USA, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Eire, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Russia and Sweden.
In a separate transaction, the company supplemented the collection with 68 further vintages of Chateau d'Yquem to enable many bottles from the collection to be available for consumption.
On being asked if the older wines in the collection might still be drinkable, managing director Stephen Williams replied: “Absolutely! Chateau d'Yquem has the concentration necessary to mature for many years, even centuries.
“But the enjoyment of such rare wines is not just a question of taste; it is a remarkably nostalgic experience. In 1860 when peasants in Bordeaux were picking grapes for the oldest bottle in the collection, the US presidential election set the stage for the American Civil War!”
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