Record in Hong Kong

Three bottles of Château Lafite 1869 set a record in the wine auction at Sotheby's in Hong Kong. All set for the auction of the bottle purchased an anonymous Asian collector for the price of 1, 8 million. Hong Kong dollars ($ 230 thousand.) Each. Total for sale was billed almost 2,000 bottles of Château Lafite, delivered straight from the castle Pauillac in the French region of Bordeaux. Wines of 1869 - the oldest of the presented. No one could not assume that they will be sold at such a crazy price. Estimate of the lot is 40 - 60 thousand. Hong Kong dollars ($ 5000 - $ 7700). The previous record of Château Lafite, Held on a quarter century pales before the new achievement. In 1985, Christie's auction American publisher Malcolm Forbes bought a bottle of wine in 1787 with the autograph of US President Thomas Jefferson for 105,000 pounds ($ 168 000). "There are many versions of why the Chinese are so fond of Lafite, - says Serena Sutcliffe, Sotheby's chief specialist on wines. - Some say that the name is easy to pronounce the Chinese language media. In fact, they love its taste, otherwise they would not have to pay so much money for these wines. "