Elite Single Collection Boosts Heritage Auctions’ Fine & Rare Wine Auction Beyond $3.3 Million

All 1,058 lots came from Lakada Cellar

DALLAS, Texas (March 13, 2020) — Multiple bidders drove the final return for Romanee Conti 2011 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (6) to $86,100 to lead Heritage Auctions’ Fine & Rare Wine Auction to $3,372,581 March 6 in Beverly Hills, California.

The lot topped its pre-auction estimate of $72,500-82,500 to claim top spot among 1,058 lots in the sale, which boasted sell-through rates of 99.85% by value and 99.81% by lots sold. The entire auction came from The Lakada Cellar, an exceptionally well-curated collection of only the most coveted labels in the world.

"The Lakada Cellar is an important and well-known collection among wine collectors everywhere,” Heritage Auctions Fine & Rare Wine Director Frank Martell said. "For Heritage Auctions to have been chosen to offer this collection to our collectors is a great honor, and reaffirms our ever-growing footprint in the wine-collecting community.”

RDC brought the next two highest results, when Romanee Conti 2010 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (5) sold for $79,950 and Romanee Conti 2009 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (5) brought $78,875.

Two 12-bottle lots of La Tache exceeded their pre-auction estimates when La Tache 2005 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (12) and La Tache 2010 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (12) each closed at $64,575.

Other top lots included, but were not limited to:

Romanee Conti 2005 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (3): $56,580

La Tache 2009 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (12): $51,660

Romanee Conti 2016 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (3): $49,200

Romanee Conti 2012 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (3): $44,280

Romanee Conti 2013 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (3): $44,280

Romanee Conti 2014 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (3): $44,280

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Steve Lansdale, Public Relations Specialist
214-409-1699; SteveL@HA.com