Sales of six-litre
methuselahs helped to propel the vaunted Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) to the head of Sotheby’s’ list of top 10 wine and spirits producers by sales in 2020.
It’s the eighth consecutive year that DRC has topped the rankings.
Sotheby’s sold $19.4m of the famous Burgundy producer’s wines last year, it said in its latest annual market report.
The group’s total wine and spirits auction sales fell in 2020, coming in at $92m versus a record-breaking $118m in 2019.
Yet the 2020 total was also the third highest in the past eight years. Sotheby’s and other auction houses have continued to report relatively strong demand from buyers over the past year or so, accompanied by a more rapid transition to online sales.