Some 2,000 bottles of vintage French burgundy wine from the venerable Maison Bouchard Pere et Fils, including one dating from 1846, will go under the hammer in Hong Kong tomorrow.
Gilles de Larouziere, president of the Henriot wine group that owns the Maison Bouchard, told AFP that the sale was taking place in Hong Kong because Asia shows “extraordinary enthusiasm for great French wines and more recently for the great wines of Burgundy.”
The sale at the James Christie Room in Hong Kong will see 220 lots of wines go under the hammer, dating from almost every decade going back to 1846.
An 1865 Montrachet white in the sale is valued at between HKD30,000 and HKD60,000.
The 1846 vintage is a Meursault-Charmes valued at between HKD40,000 and HKD80,000.
A frugality drive in China that made officials wary of opening high-end bottles of wine depressed sales in 2013 and 2014 but the Chinese market has since picked up.
The Maison Bouchard Pere et Fils, which was founded in 1731, has a collection of some 150,000 bottles, Larouziere said.
The vineyards of Maison Bouchard Pere et Fils, which the Henriot family of Champagne took over in 1995, cover around 130 hectares (320 acres), of which 12 hectares produce grand cru wines and 74 hectares grow second-ranking premier crus.
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