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THE SPRING AUCTION FINE & RARE WINES & SPIRITS featuring THE COLLECTION edierranean Fine & Rare Wines & Spirits Wines & Rare Fine 2106UK 18, 2021 London • June London • June 18, 2021 The Spring Auction: Fine & Rare Wines & Spirits featuring The Mediterranean Collection June 18 at 10am BST (5am EST, 5pm HKT, 11am Paris) Lots 1–457 This auction will be held “live online,” with a live feed of the auctioneer. Zachys is also accepting online, absentee, and phone bids, like all auctions. For assistance bidding from home, contact [email protected]. Sale 2106UK Upcoming Zachys Wine Auctions June 25 & 26 – Hong Kong June 30 – The Final Offering from the Cellar of Tawfiq Khoury, New York In addition to the sales listed above, Zachys holds eAuctions monthly. Please see our website zachys.com/auctions for details. The wines in this auction are lying in Zachys warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Zachys offers free storage in our Rotterdam warehouse for 90 days! After 90 days, Zachys offers competitive storage, please inquire. Rotterdam – London Zachys offers a free consolidated shipment to London, as well as subsidized dedicated shipping to the UK at a rate of GBP20/case. Consolidated Shipments Zachys offers free consolidated sea shipments between White Plains, Hong Kong and Rotterdam several times a year. Subsidized consolidated air shipping is also available along those routes at a rate of GBP100 per case. All applicable tariffs will be the responsibility of the customer. Zachys also offers clients competitive storage options and rates. Please contact [email protected] for more information. H LIVE ONLINE BIDDING! In addition to browsing the catalog and placing absentee bids online, now you can get in on the action live from the comfort of your home or office! Visit www.zachys.com/auctions for details. Please note that starting on March 1, 2021 the Buyers Premium is 24.5% for all sales globally. ® zachys Follow us on social media @zachysauctions New York • Hong Kong • San Francisco • Washington, DC • London tel +44-20-34758455 • fax +44-20-34758525 • [email protected] • zachys.com Contents Contacts For This Auction 3 Introduction 4 Lots 1-457 6 Buying & Bidding Information 82 Conditions of Sale 85 General Catalog Notes 88 Collection & Delivery Form 93 Bidder Pre-Registration Form 94 Absentee Bid Form 95 Index 97 Designed by Connor Michalek 2 Don Zacharia Jeff Zacharia Fritz Hatton Charles Antin Julia Murray CEO President Advisor, Principal Auctioneer Head of Auction Sales Managing Director Connor Kriegel Christy Erickson Terrence Tang Stu Jakub Ching Wong Austin Zhang Head of North America Head of Europe, Paris Head of Asia, Hong Kong Consignment Director Senior Specialist Sales Director, China NEW YORK Auctioneers Operations Wine Specialists Fritz Hatton (#1123249) Julia Banks Emily Rosenberg Jeff Zacharia (#1285129) Anastasia Hesser Ame Brewster Charles Antin (#1406288) Katie Jacobs Amelia Krusell Austin Zhang Alberto Soriano Stuart Jakub Junior Wine Specialists & Ame Brewster Customer Service Wine Specialist Assistants Danielle Castaldo Mason Alter Consultants Keody Urena Amanda Opromolla Geoffrey Troy Cole Rockwell Robert Lyles Senior Wine Specialists Lauren Hoey Creative Services Michael Moser Connor Michalek Josephine Young LOS ANGELES EUROPE Amanda Crawford Edouard Berry Marie Martel Totte Steneby Elisa Bolognani ASIA Wine Specialists Operations Marketing & Public Relations Simon Choi Alvin Sham Sydney Corliss McColl Raymond Lai Dora Kam Customer Service Nathan Ung Maggie Ma Alex Kong Ivy Chan Anson Wong Elaine Chui Nicole So NEW YORK HONG KONG 39 Westmoreland Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606 Unit A&B, 3/F, Tern Centre Tower II, 1.914.448.3026 • 1.914.313.2350 fax No. 251 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong [email protected] +852.2530.1971 • +852.3014.3838 fax [email protected] LONDON 施氏亞洲 如欲以中文查詢 拍賣會事宜 3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DT : Zachys 請聯絡 +852.2530.1971 或電郵至 +44-20-34758455 • +44-20-34758525 fax [email protected] [email protected] 3 The Spring Auction: Fine & Rare Wines & Spirits Welcome to our fifth London auction! After the successes we had last year we followed things up with two “spirits only” auctions from our London sale room. But this is the first London wine sale of 2021, and our third-ever London wine auction. If you’ve been following our colleagues in our Hong Kong and United States sale rooms you know how much great wine there is on the market right now. We’ve had our annual partnership with La Paulée, our first-ever Spirits-only auctions, and set hundreds of world records along the way. We are in the middle of an unbelievably busy June, with our partnership with Premiere Napa Valley, and the sales of wines from such collecting luminaries as George Caloyannidis and Tawfiq Khoury. I’m delighted to continue along this path of success with this sale. Not only do we have wine from Pioneers, an offering now being sold on its third con- tinent, we have an amazing consignment from right here on the continent. Starting on lot 34, this is the same consignment sold earlier in the year as the “DRC Only” sale in New York (there’s additional wine here, not just DRC). Following this consignment is the heart of this auction, at lot 50. This consignment is all about the Burgundy, with easily the largest offering of DRC we have ever sold at Zachys Europe! There’s also Dugat-Py, Faiveley, Trapet, Mugnier, and many more. Later in the auction is a wonderful group of Mascarello, which graces the cover of this catalog, and it wouldn’t be a London sale without an amazing offering of Chartreuse starting at lot 324. This sale has something for everyone, for sure, so please get those bids in early to [email protected]! Sincerely, Christy Erickson Head of Europe 4 5 PIONEERS IV (LOTS 1-33) You may remember this consignor by his incredible selection of Cheval Blanc, and if you do, then get ready for more the same excellence. If you don’t, well then keep reading. This consignor is a pioneer in the business world, a man who forged his own path. A large part of this collection was purchased directly from Zachys retail. Once again, the offering of Cheval Blanc alone is one of the best ever put into a Zachys auction, with dozens of the legendary 1990. Your cellar will thank you for adding even just one lot from this consignment to your cellar, trust us! 6 ZACHYS tel 1.914.448.3026 • fax 1.914.313.2350 • [email protected] • zachys.com PIONEERS IV CHÂTEAU CHEVAL BLANC Cheval Blanc has a relatively short history compared with the other top-rank châteaux of Bordeaux. As recently as the 1830s it was still a part of Figeac. A portion of that estate was sold to the Ducasse family, then owners of L’Evangile, and by twenty years later, when a Ducasse married a Fourcard-Loussac, the property was already some thirty-one hectares in size. The estate remained with the Fourcard-Loussac family until part of it was sold to Bernard Arnault and his company, LVMH, in 1998. Today, along with Château d’Yquem, it is fully owned by Arnault and managed by the dynamic Pierre Lurton. Cheval Blanc, across the road from Pomerol, has distinctive soil makeup: about twenty percent sand, forty percent clay and forty percent gravel. In the gravelly and sandy areas the roots have to work hard to stay alive and often reach depths of seven to eight meters, compared with two to three meters in the clay areas. Today the roughly thirty-seven hectares of vineyards are planted with sixty percent Cabernet Franc and forty percent Merlot. Yields are typically thirty-five hl/ha, and the annual production of 6500 to 7000 cases is bottled after eighteen to twenty-four months in new oak. BORDEAUX ◆ Château Cheval Blanc 2002 St Emilion, Premier Grand Cru Classé (a) ◆ Château Cheval Blanc 1990 original wood case St Emilion, Premier Grand Cru Classé (a) Parcel: lots 8 & 9 bottom neck or better unless noted 8 12 bottles GB£2600-3800 Lot 1: two 6-pack original wood cases, one with dam- 9 12 bottles aged lid, four very top shoulder, two top shoulder, one just below top shoulder, two with signs of old seepage ◆ Château Cheval Blanc 2003 Lot 2: original wood case with damaged lid, five very top St Emilion, Premier Grand Cru Classé (a) shoulder, one top shoulder, one just below top shoulder original wood case Lot 3: two lightly scuffed labels Parcel: lots 10-14 Lot 4: one very top shoulder, one lightly scuffed label, one 10 12 bottles GB£2400-3600 lightly wrinkled label, two lightly damp-stained labels 11 12 bottles Lot 5: original wood case, one very top shoulder, twelve 12 12 bottles heavily bin-soiled and heavily damp-stained labels 13 12 bottles Lot 6: original wood case, three very top shoulder, one just 14 12 bottles below top shoulder, five lightly bin-soiled labels, six heavily bin-soiled labels, one lightly wine-stained label, five lightly damp-stained labels, six heavily damp-stained labels ◆ Château Cheval Blanc 2004 Lot 7: one very top shoulder, one top shoulder, one lightly St Emilion, Premier Grand Cru Classé (a) torn label original wood case "The palate is full-bodied and cloaked in a silky, velvety Parcel: lots 15-19 texture that leaves you a little ga-ga. There is so much fruit 15 12 bottles GB£2400-3600 ram-packed into the bravura of a finish...98." WA 7/16. 16 12 bottles 1 12 bottles GB£6000-9000 17 12 bottles 2 12 bottles GB£6000-9000 18 12 bottles 3 12 bottles GB£6000-9000 19 12 bottles 4 12 bottles GB£6000-9000 5 12 bottles GB£6000-9000 6 12 bottles GB£6000-9000 7 10 bottles GB£5000-7500 ZACHYS tel 1.914.448.3026 • fax 1.914.313.2350 • [email protected] • zachys.com 7 PIONEERS IV ◆ Château Cheval Blanc 2005 ◆ Château Cheval Blanc 2006 St Emilion, Premier Grand Cru Classé (a) St Emilion, Premier Grand Cru Classé (a) original wood case original wood case Parcel: lots 20-24 Parcel: lots 25 & 26 "The Cheval is of course not one of the bigger, more "The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin.