(ANSA) - FLORENCE, 04 MAY - A bottle of Musigny DomaineLeroy from 2008 was sold in recent days at the sum of 67,375 euros by the Florentine auction house Pandolfini.
The award, explains a note, set the national record for a single 75cl bottle of wine.
The auction, 573 lots of French and Italian wines, took place on 27 and 28 April, marking a total proceeds of 1,485,785 euros, equal to 218% of the estimates.
Among the best sales of Italian bottles a magnum of Sassicaia Tenuta San Guido from 1985 which changed hands for 9,188 euros, a bottle of BaroloMonfortino Riserva Giacomo Conterno from 1945 sold for 1,225 euros.
For Champagne, a 1985 Dom Perignon cuvée P3 vintage was sold for 4,288 euros.
It took 18,375 euros to bring home 12 examples of some of the main Château de Bordeaux such as Lafite Rothschild vintage 2000 and another 12 ChâteauMargaux from 2000 went for 11,270 euros.
And again, a single bottle of Pétrus 1998 was sold for 6,125 euros.
A22.662 euros went a Chevalier-Montrachet Leroy Domained '
Auvenay from 2004 and a Bonnes Mares Leroy Domaine d'Auvenay from 1999 sold for € 11,025.
A bottle of Romanée Conti vintage 1990 was traded for 25,725 euros, while a bottle from 2004, one from 2000 and one from 2001 each sold for 21,438 euros.
"An exceptional sale which confirms even more the resilience of the sector in this moment of global instability, and which rewards the constant search for the best products in circulation", commented the Pandolfini department head Francesco Tanzi.
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