Wine Auctions - Wine News

The wine auctions Langton’s Melbourne and Sydney in

Australia on 2013-10-10 were as exciting as always

and many lots were sold.

In contrast to European or American

wine auctions many lots are offered and the

sales quotas are lower, the lots therefore are also

offered several times a week. On the Langton’s website

auction results are not shown per lot,

there are always auction prices for an offered

single bottle, something uncommon for not Australians.

The auction volume was, as always, very high, about 50 % of the

lots were sold. 2599 lots of different wines

could be re- listed at wine-stocks.com .

12684 wine bottles were processed at the wine auction,

the volume of the listed wine auctions was € 706,162.83

(AUS $ 1.00275).

The average worth of a bottle of wine was

the equivalent of € 55.67 ( AUS $ 81 ) .

There were several maximum prices,

wine price records, never achieved auction prices of the

wineries, vintages and bottle sizes included.

Chateau Latour 1988 750ml 475,91 € increase 63,17 %

Chateau Margaux 1989 750ml 530,59 € increase 62,78 %

Angelo Gaja Barolo Sperss 1999 750ml 226,13 € increase 57,21 %

Grand Puy Lacoste 2000 750ml 129,32 € increase 43,69 %

(44,15%) of all wines came from the wine region South Australia

The french wine region Bordeaux with (20,01%) followed by

Victoria another Australian Wine Region with (8,4%) Burgundy, France (6,97%)

and Western Australia with (3,03%) got the fifth place.

The focus of the wine auctions Langton's is located in Australian wines .

Most frequently requested and also the most popular was

Penfolds from South Australia, followed by the second wine of Cos d’Estournel,

Pagodes de Cos, Chateau Senejac from Bordeaux, Minnow Creek a producer

from South Australia and at least from Italy, Piemont Paolo Scanavino.

The most sold wine was Pagodes de Cos vintage 2010

750ml, followed by Shiraz Minnow Creek 2008 750ml,

Chateau Senejac 2009 750ml , Paolo Scanavino Barolo 2007

750ml and Chateau Cantegril 2009 in a 375ml bottle.

The years that were focus of restaurateurs

wine lovers and professional wine investment funds

ordered by popularity, were the wine vintages 2010 ,

followed by the year 2009, 2008, 2002 and 2003.

In the majority ( 88.31 %) of all auctioned bottles were 750ml

then 375ml, 1500ml , 500ml, and 3000ml bottles

Quantities to ( 34.63 %) 6 owc, ( 16.16% ) single bottles

( 13.54% ) 4- pack ( 11.58% ), pack of 3 ( 8.43% ).

The highest price, achieved a bottle of Burgundy

Vintage 2001 750ml Domaine Romanee Conti, Romanee

Conti with a value of wine from € 5563,48 € converted

(8122 AUS $), then came from the wine region

Bordeaux, Chateau Lafleur twice in a row

Chateau Lafleur 750ml Jahrgang 1989 with a sale price achieved by

1478,60€ und 1454,45 € converted (2158 AUS $).

Domaine Remoissenet Musigny vintage 1976 750 ml

 reached a wine auction price from 1167,43 € converted

(1704 AUS $) and the Domaine Romanee Conti La

Tache 1994 750ml got the wine value of 1089 €  converted

(1530 AUS $).

Value wines were auctioned from South Australia Wynns

Coonawarra Riesling 2008 750ml per auction for a bottle price from 5,15 €,

(AUS $ 7.5), Chateau Faugeres 2009 750ml very cheap sold for 5,15 €,

 (AUS $ 7.5), Weingut Kaesler Shiraz Stonehorse 2003 750ml für 5,2 €

(AUS $ 7.5) and a wine value from 5,2 € (ASU $ 7.5)

achieved South Australia Taylors Wines Cabernet Sauvignon

1975 in the 750ml bottle.