Sales (US$) % sold by lot % sold by value Top lot (12 bottles unless stated) $9,593,932
100% $3,061,669
$3,068,620 85% $227,217
$724,811
$5,894,505 $5,595,742
56%
100% N/d
100% N/d*
93% N/d N/d N/d
99% N/d N/d
$1,788,658 90% N/d $604,968 83% 65%
$2,386,188
$6,242,677 $289,677 $386,074 $5,129,649 $1,395,898
$178,524 $3,619,795 $1,571,540 80% 92% 100% 111%
N/d N/d
26% 74% 93% N/d 100%
N/d 100% 87% 94%
$12,334,503 100% $7,901,901
92% $1,729,357 72%
$3,488,252 84% $1,420,222 $2,062,160 $108,128 $769,561
91% 96%
N/d N/d N/d
N/d N/d
N/d
N/d N/d
112%
26% 81% 74%
N/d $2,493,797 88% N/d $243,537 54%
$8,432,907 88% $487,609 $297,716
$8,835,709
68% 73% N/d
$4,841,084 84% $681,858 $322,458
$73,842 56% $3,681,527
85%
52% N/d 91% N/d N/d N/d
97% N/d 57%
N/d 61% 88%
DRC La Romanée-Conti 2005 (5 bottles) Château Lafleur 1982
Domaine Armand Rousseau, Chambertin 1990 Unique Salmanazar Ornellaia 2019 (1 9L)
Lafite Rothschild 1982
Domaine Leroy Musigny 1992 (6 bottles) JL Chave Ermitage Cuvée Cathelin 1990
Price (US$) $127,839
$60,724 $67,116
$46,909
$40,061 $95,600 $136,950
Buyer N/d
N/d N/d N/d
N/d
US trade N/d
29 vintages of Harlan magnums from 1990 to 2018 (29 magnums) $525,000 N/d Domaine Henri Jayer, Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux 1990 (1 bottle)
Vega-Sicilia Único vertical collection (36 magnums)
Château Lafleur 1982 (6 magnums) Château Lafleur 1982 (3 magnums) Masseto 2017 (1 imperial)
Domaine d’Auvenay, Batard Montrachet 2014 (3 bottles) Domaine Ponsot, Clos de La Roche Cuvée Hippolyte 2022 (1 barrel)
Château Mouton Rothschild 2020 (6 bottles, 3 magnums, 1 double magnum, 1 Impériale, 1 Nebuchadnezzar)
Domaine Henri Jayer, Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux 1999 (6 bottles)
L’Exceptionnelle Vendanges des Sept Domaines, Montrachet 2016 (1 bottle) DRC La Tache 2011 (6 bottles)
Domaine Henri Jayer, Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux 1993 (9 bottles)
DRC La Romanée-Conti 2007 (1 Methuselah) DRC La Romanée-Conti 1990 (6 bottles)
Domaine Armand Rousseau, Chambertin Clos de Bèze 1993 Petrus 1990 (6 bottles) Mouton Rothschild 2000
DRC La Romanée-Conti 2011 (2 bottles) Petrus 2000
Château Haut-Brion 1989 (10 bottles) DRC La Romanée-Conti 2005 (1 magnum) Lafleur 1961 (6 bottles) Le Pin 2002 (6 bottles)
DRC La Romanée-Conti 1990 DRC assortment 1999
Domaine Roumier, Bonnes Mares 1969 (10 bottles) Dominus Estate 2013
$113,923
$87,538 $12,900 $10,917 $62,250 $181,572
$178,524 $73,003 $47,500
$28,680 $415,477
$357,047
$191,759 $80,625 $23,864 $19,913 $35,182
$35,182
$18,136 $68,475 $64,383 $11,727
$232,735 $87,538 $34,440 $5,535
Domaine Robert Groffier, Chambertin Clos de Bèze 2019 (6 bottles) $3,193 DRC assortment 2015
$86,018 $22,785 Swiss private Asia private
Asia trade UK trade
Asia private US trade N/d
N/d Asia private N/d
Multiple buyers N/d
N/d
N/d N/d
Swiss private N/d N/d
N/d
Europe trade US private N/d
UK trade N/d
Europe trade N/d N/d
Europe trade
Europe private * N/d = not disclosed
Top lot free fall A study of four-quarter rolling-average sell-through rates since 2019 shows the demand peak for fine wines at auction in mid-2021, and a steep decline throughout last year (fig. 8). Mirroring the secondary market, though perhaps to more extreme ends, it appears wine’s demand/supply imbalance began to correct itself in 2022. Following two years of frantic purchasing, customers were more selective in their auction acquisitions last year, as the rolling-average rate of lots sold descended to 88 percent—just above rates registered at the start of the
8 Four-quarter rolling average percentage of wine-auction lots sold since 2019 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87
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