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Berry Bros & Christies shift £2.5 million worth of wine

Published:  24 September, 2008

Royal wine merchants Berry Bros has reported achieving "outstanding sales" in the past few weeks, despite the loom of the credit crunch.

Royal wine merchants Berry Bros has reported achieving "outstanding sales" in the past few weeks, despite the loom of the credit crunch.

Figures released by Berry Bros. & Rudd & Christie's Fine Wine Auction show a combined total of over two and a half million pounds worth of fine wine has been sold by these two companies in the past few weeks.

Berrys says it has sold 1000 cases of 2006 Ch. Lynch Bages and 1000 cases of 2000 Dom Perignon Champagne, worth a combined total of one million pounds.

Meanwhile Christie's Bordeaux 2000 sale, held this week, saw "bullish" spending with the Ch. Lafite Rothschild 2000 making £10,925 per case and a case of Ch. Latour 2000 going for £9,200.

Overall, the 'Highlights from a Superlative Millennium Vintage: Bordeaux 2000' auction realised a combined total of £1,654,775.

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