Decanter World Wine AwardsChristie’s and Decanter raise record amount for WaterAid at fine wine auction
- Friday 5 November 2010
Of the ‘Wine to Water’ items, the highest grossing sales were 48-bottle lots of red Bordeaux and white Burgundy mixed cases, containing premium wines from Pauillac, Pomerol, Margaux, Chablis, and Meursault, which went for £748 each.
The auction also offered rare wines from private collections in addition to the ‘Wine to Water’ sales.
Chris Munro, Christie’s head of wine in London, said: ‘The sale was 100% sold with many wines smashing through their pre-sale estimates.’
As Munro anticipated, the highest-selling lot contained ten cases of Lafite Rothschild 2002 for £75,000. Bid by a private Asian client through Christie’s’ LIVE website, it is the most expensive wine lot sold online to date.
Since 2005, Decanter has generated over £200,000 for WaterAid by donating wine submitted to its Decanter World Wine Awards competition to Christie’s for sale on behalf of the charity.
WaterAid provides rural communities in Africa and Asia with safe water, sanitation and hygiene education, and also seeks to influence water policy at an international level.
To find out more about WaterAid visit www.wateraid.org. For further information about Decanter’s partnership with WaterAid please email shreena_patel@decanter.com.
Have your say!
Jon
November 08 03:37
Lafite always sells out when it goes to auction. It always does well in the market. Chinese love buying Lafite the 2008 lafite will have a chinese symbol on the bottle which made the prices rise by 20 to 30%