Best-selling wines and spirits

Our best-selling wines and spirits

Every day, our customers turn up to have their bottles appraised. Among them, we sometimes discover treasures from the most prestigious vineyards. Our team of experts accompanies our customers to authenticate and appraise these grands crus, which will be brought by Auctie's, to Hôtel Drouot, the European epicenter of auctions.

What types of wines do we appraise?

• Grands crus
• Champagnes
• Prestige spirits

Why sell your Grands Crus at auction with Auctie's?

• The sale of Grands Crus at auction is currently booming, offering a unique opportunity to sell your wines and spirits at a bargain price and thus achieve attractive returns on investment.
• Auctie's has a team of wine and spirits experts who can guarantee the authenticity and quality of every lot offered for sale.
• A Auctie's auction house also has a global network of collectors and wine lovers, who are ready to invest in quality grands crus.

New Chinese enthusiasts on the prestige wine market

Since the 2000s, Chinese customers have become increasingly interested in grand cru wines, not least because of their growing purchasing power and taste for luxury goods. Today, they account for a significant share of the global wine and spirits auction market.

Chinese buyers often seek out prestigious and renowned bottles, such as the grand crus classés of Bordeaux, but also Italian wines and spirits such as cognac and whisky. They also appreciate rare bottles, with exceptional history or ageing, which represent for them a symbol of status and success.

With its recognized expertise in wines and spirits, as well as its global network of wine collectors and enthusiasts, Auctie's is well placed to offer Chinese buyers the most prized types of bottles. This can result in particularly lively auctions and high selling prices for sellers.

Some records for wine and spirits sales

• In October 2018, a bottle of Romanée-Conti vintage 1945 sold at auction in New York for a record US$558,000.
• In February 2021, a bottle of Petrus vintage 2000 sold at auction in Hong Kong for a record HK$1.8 million (around US$232,000).
• In October 2020, a bottle of Macallan whisky vintage 1926 sold at auction in London for a record £1.2 million (approx. US$1.5 million).
• In July 2020, a private collection of Burgundy wines belonging to a French wine lover sold at auction in Paris for a total of over €1.5 million.

These records demonstrate the growing appeal of auctions for high-quality, world-renowned wines and spirits, as well as the importance of having a network of passionate buyers willing to invest in order to realize high sale prices.