Vintage Bottle of Krug Champagne Sets New World Record
Vintage Bottle of Krug Champagne
Breaks Record
A Little More Reasonably Price Bottle Of Krug Champagne
There is a need for even the more affluent to limit there luxury expenses, in these economic times, and champagne has take a little hit with sales down anywhere form 13% to 35% depending on the brand of champagne. People are still choosing to buy or send champagne as a gift, but are sending champagne that is less expensive than they would have sent even a couple of years ago.
However, there will always be a market for rare vintage wines, and champagnes.
According to the Luxist article
At an “Acker Merrall & Condit’s first Hong Kong auction of 2009, a 1928 Krug set a new world record for the most expensive bottle of Champagne sold at auction. Decanter reports that the 75cl bottle, from the Krug Collection range (the library collection of the renowned Reims Champagne house) went for HK$164,560 ($21,200) which was far above above the highest estimate of HK$120,000.”
It was noted that the last record set at auction for a bottle of champagne went to Methuselah 1990,which sold for $17,625 in 2005.
Krug is a very collectible champagne brand and is well received at most wine auctions.
The complete Article can be found at Luxist
In a report by Deidre Woollard
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