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prices to rise as customers abroad will accept price rises equal to the fall of the pound,’ says Browett. ‘We will then be able to replace stock from Europe, as well as from the UK.’
■ How do you think Brexit will affect your wine-buying habits or investments? Let us know at editor@decanter.com Merrall’s top 10 highestgrossing lots of the first half of 2016. Multiple-vintage lots in magnum of Latour and Mouton Rothschild took the top two slots, with a case of Pétrus 1989 also making the list. DRC was a predictable mainstay with half of the top 10, accompanied by Jayer and Ponsot. ■ Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 4 June: At a sale, a 225-litre barrel of 2015 (plus château visit, dinner) sold for HK$3.06m (high estimate: HK$700,000); 12 bottles of 1961 sold for HK$465,500 (high e: HK$500,000); 12 bottles of 1959 sold for HK$367,500 (high e: HK$400,000); three magnums of 1961 sold for HK$367,500 (high e: HK$240,000); one double magnum of 1961 sold for HK$294,000 (high e: HK$200,000); three magnums of 1959 sold for HK$269,500 (high e: HK$200,000); six magnums of Vin Blanc de Palmer 2010 sold for HK$58,800 (high e: HK$18,000); three bottles of 1928 sold for HK$196,000 (high e: HK$180,000).
■ Sotheby’s, London, 15 June: six bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC), RomanéeConti 1990 sold for £68,150 (high e: £65,000); six bottles of DRC, Les Gaudichots, Vosne Romanée 1926 sold for £49,350 (high e: £28,000); six bottles of DRC, La Tâche 1990 sold for £28,200 (high e: £22,000); six bottles of DRC, Richebourg 1990 sold for £14,100 (high e: £11,000); 12 bottles of La Mission Haut-Brion 1989 sold for £9,165 (high e: £8,000); a jeroboam of Haut-Brion 1989 sold for £8,813 (high e: £8,000); nine bottles of Pétrus 1994 sold for £8,813 (high e: £8,800).
12 bottles of sold for $31,070 (high e: $35,000); six magnums of Mouton Rothschild 2000 sold for $17,925 (high e: $18,000); two magnums of Gruaud sold for $8,365 (high e: $3,800); six ■ bottles of sold for $15,535 (high e: $11,000); one magnum of sold for $6,573 (high e: $3,000); sold for $5,378 (high e: sold for 24 bottles of $2,800); one bottle of $2,868 (high e: $300).