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We are very pleased to announce a truly special auction:
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. To Auction Monumental Single-Owner
Wine Collection On September 19th & 20th In Chicago:
The Fox Cellar, Estimated At $6.9-10.2 Million
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Auction Will Feature 700 Cases of First Growth Bordeaux and over 1000 bottles from
Domaine de la Romanée Conti; Twenty Vintage Vertical Château Lafite-Rothschild Dinner
at Charlie Trotter’s to Precede this Epic Sale on September 18th |
We will hold a monumental single-owner sale on September 19th and 20th. The auction of over 1,700 lots is estimated to fetch between $6.9 and $10.2 million and the firm anticipates that wine collectors around the world will clamor to own a piece of this historic cellar.
The Fox Cellar is poised to electrify the wine collecting world with its encyclopedic offering of full-case lots, most purchased by the current owner as futures or on release and still nestled in their original wooden cases. All wines have been removed from temperature and humidity controlled storage.
The sale will feature unparalleled quantities of the worlds most sought after wines. Foremost among the group are 166 lots of Château Lafite-Rothschild worth an estimated $1,067,400- $1,589,900 including 7 cases of the 1982 and 21 cases of the 1996 vintages (all in their original wooden cases). Also staggering is a 100 lot offering of Château Pétrus worth an estimated $980,000-$1.5 million; more than 1,000 bottles from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, and well over a thousand bottles each of Châteaux Latour, Margaux, Mouton-Rothschild and Haut-Brion. Other featured offerings include large selections of Italian wines from Angelo Gaja along with Super Tuscans, Guigal’s Single-Vineyard Côte Rôties, and top California producers.
“We are so excited to represent this cellar of a long time client and friend. The impeccable depth and provenance of these wines is something that comes along once in a generation and we are honored to offer this collection to the world,” commented John Hart, Chairman of Hart Davis Hart.
Collectors and restaurateurs will descend on Chicago to raise their paddles in the auction room and compete with bidders on the phone, online bidders utilizing our proprietary online real-time bidding portal, www.hdhlive.com, and others who submit their bids before the sale using our intuitive online absentee bidding system. The live auction will take place at Chicago’s award-winning restaurant Tru, beginning promptly at 9:00 a.m. (CDT) on Friday, September 19th, 2008 and Saturday, September 20th, 2008.
“This is by far the most important collection I have seen in my 18 year career at Christie’s, Davis & Co, Sotheby’s, and Hart Davis Hart. The vast quantities of wine combined with the impeccable provenance is unlikely to be seen any time in the near future,” noted Paul Hart, President of Hart Davis Hart. | 
