UK: Petrus 2000 Leads Auction of Wine Writer Hugh Johnson’s Cellar
UK: Petrus 2000 Leads Auction of Wine Writer Hugh Johnson’s Cellar
May 14, 2013 6(Bloomberg) - Three bottles of Chateau Petrus 2000 Pomerol fetched top price of 6,600 pounds ($10,100) at a sale of U.K. wine writer Hugh Johnson’s private collection at Sworders auction house north of London, according to its website.
A case of Chateau Haut-Brion 1990 sold for 3,900 pounds and 12 bottles of Chateau Margaux 1996 fetched 3,800 pounds at Sworders, based in Stansted Mountfitchet. All three lots were within pre-sale estimates, and the amount sold totaled about 88,000 pounds.
Johnson is the author of an annual pocket guide to wine that has been published since 1977, as well as the World Atlas of Wine. Decanter magazine, to which Johnson contributes, said he was selling the wine because of a move to a smaller house closer to London from his family home of 40 years in Essex.
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