Acker’s Grunewald auction achieves US$7 million

American auction house Acker Merrell & Condit’s ‘Legendary Cellar of Wolfgang Grunewald’ auction held in New York achieved more than US$7 million and was 100% sold, the auction house has announced.

The company said the results set 245 new world records led by Domaine de la Romanée Conti (DRC) and Krug Champagne lots.

The auction’s top 10 lots were headed by two magnum lots with one 1999 Romanée Conti sold for $92,625 and the 2005 Romanée Conti for $86,450. Described as “the corner stone of the auction”, the DRC lots set 68 new world records, according to Acker.

Completing the top 10 lots were three 2001 Romanée Conti magnums ($80,275) and a jeroboam ($67,925), six bottles of 2006 Romanée Conti ($67,925), three bottles of the 1999 Romanée Conti ($55,575), three magnums of 2005 La Tache ($49,400), and bottle lots of the 2000, 2001 (four bottles each at $49,400) and 2005 Romanée Conti (three bottles at $46,930) plus three special magnums of the 1996 Henri Jayer Vosne Romanée Cros Parantoux, which were sold for $80,275.

In addition, Krug Champagne established 25 of those 245 new world records, led by a 1929 Krug Collection in original wooden case, which sold for $37,050 to an American buyer.

Bordeaux claimed 34 new world records including 1961 Petrus, 1959 Mouton (magnum), 1926 Ausone, 1928 Montrose, 1961 L’Evangile, 1975 Lafleur (magnum) and 1982 Le Pin.