Pursuits
Burgundy Drives Acker Merrall Auctions as DRC, Jayer Lead
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Burgundy accounted for more than 45 percent of sales at Acker Merrall & Condit auctions so far this year, ahead of Bordeaux on just under 30 percent, as Domaine de la Romanee-Conti and Henri Jayer swept all of its top 25 lots.
Its most expensive lot of the past six months comprised 12 bottles of Romanee-Conti 1988 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti from Burgundy’s Cote de Nuits region, which fetched $178,477 in Hong Kong in March, while 12 bottles of Cros Parantoux 1999 Henri Jayer from the village of Vosne Romanee sold for $148,200 in New York in February, Acker Merrall said in a statement.