Sint-Truiden, A good glass of wine is definitely its money’s worth, but 60.500 euros (50,000 euros plus vat) is a lot of money. It was Sunday afternoon over the phone for a magnumfles Romanée-Conti Grand Cru 2005 during the wine auction of the bankrupt Diepenbeekse wine Wijnmakelaarsunie. “A world record we are very proud of,” says auctioneer Milan Field of Winefield Auctioneers.
The collection of wine bottles that Sunday afternoon was sold in the castle of genoels-elderen, was announced as very valuable. Together with the online auction by Troostwijk going to the 130,000 bottles in total. The Belgians were given the unique opportunity to have a special wine in the store, because soon leaves the auction to Singapore and Amsterdam. “For us it was not really a big auction,” says Field. “We’ve sold here, but only the top because we are not all the thousands of wines through this system to be able to sell.” The bottles themselves were largely not present. Apparently wanted the organisers to not take risks with the very valuable copies. With the aid of photographs was made clear where the people on messengers. It was striking that some of the interested parties a straw man opstuurden to offer on the bottles. There was a lot of call during the auction.
