A single bottle of 1934 Richebourg Vieux Cepages from the legendary Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (DRC) could fetch $50,000 at Heritage Auctions on March 21. This one of the rarest and most important bottles of wine in the world is being offered as the cover lot of the $3.5+ million Exquisite Collection of a Northeastern Gentleman, only the third time Heritage has offered a single-cellar sale. The auction will take place in Beverly Hills and will be simulcast to a live bidding room in Hong Kong.
“Even with unlimited resources it would be virtually impossible to find another bottle of this wine, and it would not come with the stellar provenance our example carries,” said Heritage Auctions‘ director of fine wines, Frank Martell.
Vieux Cepages was the title afforded DRC’s oldest Richebourg vines, kept completely apart from the regular cuvee during vinification. With only a few hundred bottles produced, this is indisputably one of the most important and rarest bottles that exists in the centuries long history of the winery.
Heritage Auctions’ is also offering a six-litre bottle of 2002 Romanee-Conti, the most refined wine of the domaine, which is expected to sell for more than $90,000+.
The Collection of a Northeastern Gentleman features 861 lots, marking what Heritage experts consider the company’s finest and most complete offering to date. Among the choice names on offer will be various best in class vintages of Ausone, Cheval Blanc, Haut Brion, Latour, Comte de Vogue Bonnes Mares and Musigny, 18 Jeroboam and 12 Methuselah from DRC, 21 vintages of Roumier Bonnes Mares, Leroy, Ponsot, Coche Dury, Ramonet, Dom Perignon, Krug, Cristal, Philipponnat, Gaja, Araujo, Bryant, Colgin, Insignia and Shafer and much more.
