Archives des #Boerl&Kroff - Baghera/Blog https://www.bagherawines-blog.com/tag/boerlkroff/ LEADING EUROPEAN FINE WINE AUCTIONEER • GENEVA Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:32:13 +0000 fr-FR hourly 1 wine o’clock #128 https://www.bagherawines-blog.com/wine-oclock-128/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:28:50 +0000 https://www.bagherawines-blog.com/?p=8930 A matter of scale Some catalogues are defined by a single cellar, others by a producer or a run of vintages. Our […]

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A matter of scale

Some catalogues are defined by a single cellar, others by a producer or a run of vintages. Our online "wine o’clock" auction #128 is held together by something more physical: scale. Across 520 lots, the sale moves between monumental bottles, historical singletons and unusually concentrated groups of wines whose interest becomes clearer when they are read together.

The recognition sign of the great format

A magnum may be the perfect measure for two; a Salmanazar changes the scale of the table. Once a bottle reaches Imperial, Salmanazar or Nebuchadnezzar size, it is no longer merely a larger container. It becomes part of the occasion itself. Among people who love wine, the great format is a quiet sign of recognition: it says that the bottle was chosen not only to be owned, but one day to gather a table around it.

Our online "wine o’clock" auction #128 gives that idea unusual breadth. Château Lafite Rothschild 2005 appears in a six-litre Imperial, lot 177. Château d’Yquem goes further: three individual Imperials of 2018, lots 316 to 318; a nine-litre Salmanazar of 2017, lot 320; and a twelve-litre Balthazar of 2016, lot 322. The catalogue format list also includes a Nebuchadnezzar. The effect is less one of display than of intent — bottles whose scale anticipates the memory of opening them.

Mouton 1945: a bottle that carries its year on the label

Few Bordeaux bottles connect wine, image and history as immediately as Château Mouton Rothschild 1945. To celebrate the Allied victory and his own return to the estate, Baron Philippe de Rothschild asked the young artist Philippe Jullian to design the label around the “V” for Victory. The success of that commission established the annual artist-label tradition that has since become inseparable from Mouton’s identity. In a sale filled with bottles that speak through size, the 1945 speaks through an image: the vintage is visible before the cork is ever drawn.

White Burgundy, from Chablis to the Hill of Corton

The white-Burgundy selection is one of the catalogue’s most coherent sequences. Coche-Dury’s Corton-Charlemagne 2015, lot 148, is followed by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s 2019, lot 149, and two individual bottles of the 2022, lots 150 and 151. The 2019 matters beyond rarity: the Domaine’s own harvest report records it as the first harvest and vinification from its Corton-Charlemagne vines, picked between 22 and 25 September, with an approximate yield of 26 hectolitres per hectare.

Further along, Jacques Prieur’s Montrachet 2020, lot 165, gives the sequence another Grand Cru centre of gravity. Thibault Liger-Belair’s Corton-Charlemagne “Les Languettes” 2020, lot 170, brings the discussion back to the Hill of Corton and to the importance of position on that slope. The official Bourgogne description places Corton-Charlemagne high on the hill, around 280 to 330 metres, where limestone and clay-rich marls alternate beneath a thin cover of rendzina. Raveneau’s Chablis 2017 and 2019, lots 171 and 172, then change the geological and stylistic register entirely.

Yquem across ninety years

Twenty-seven Yquem lots span 1931 to 2021. The point is not simply chronological depth, but the number of ways in which the estate can be approached: an old bottle, a benchmark vintage, a magnum or a monumental format. Lot 339 is a single bottle of 1967; lot 336 offers 2001 in magnum; lot 341 reaches back to 1931.

For 2001, the wider Sauternes context is unusually well documented. In a 2021 Decanter retrospective, Jane Anson described the vintage as one in which October brought rapid botrytis development followed by the drying conditions needed for even concentration; Yquem’s then technical director Sandrine Garbay recalled an unusually regular harvest rhythm. Jancis Robinson had already called the just-released Yquem 2001 a great wine in 2005. Those references concern the vintage and wine, not the specific auction bottle; they are useful precisely because they explain why 2001 remains a reference point without pretending to assess the condition of this particular magnum.

Two quieter pursuits: Clos Rougeard and Domaine des Miroirs

At the other end of the campaign’s scale, Clos Rougeard and Domaine des Miroirs reward attention to small differences. The Rougeard group includes Le Clos, Les Poyeux, Le Bourg and Brézé. The estate describes Le Clos as an assemblage of clay-limestone parcels, Les Poyeux as a gently sloping site combining clay and wind-deposited sands, and Le Bourg as very old vines on shallow clay loam over predominantly limestone ground. Brézé brings Chenin Blanc from the limestone hill of the same name.

Domaine des Miroirs is represented by three individual bottles: Mizuiro 2021, Sonorité du Vent 2019 and I Need the Sun 2018, lots 426 to 428. For Sonorité du Vent, the documented detail is particularly useful: 100% Chardonnay, limestone-strewn soils, indigenous-yeast fermentation, two years in used tonneaux and foudres, followed by a year in bottle, with no fining, filtration or added sulphur according to Œnopole. It is a reminder that a catalogue of 520 lots can still turn on the intimacy of one bottle

highlights

Lot 31
Krug
Clos d'Ambonnay
1995
1 bottle | chf 1'800 – 3'600

Lot 148
Domaine Coche-Dury
Corton-Charlemagne
2015
1 bottle | chf 2'400 – 4'800 

Lot 149
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Corton-Charlemagne
2019
1 bottle | chf 2'800 – 5'600 

Lot 165
Domaine Jacques Prieur
Montrachet
2020
4 bottles | chf 2'000 – 4'000 

Lot 177
Château Lafite Rothschild
2005
1 imperial | chf 3'200 – 6'400

Lot 320
Château d'Yquem
2017
1 salmanazar | chf 2'000 – 4'000

Lot 322
Château d'Yquem
2016
1 balthazar | chf 2'800 – 5'600

Lot 336
Château d'Yquem
2001
1 magnum | chf 800 – 1'600

Lot 387
Clos Rougeard
Saumur "Brézé"
2018
3 bottles | chf 750 – 1'500

Lot 426
Domaine des Miroirs
Mizuiro
2021
1 bottle | chf 460 – 920
consult the CATALOGUE

🇨🇭 Geneva
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Online “wine o’clock” #128
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Tuesday 13thof October 2026
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2pm (Paris/Geneva CEST)

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Iconic crus and rare bottles

The “Atlas, Terroirs of the World” Kipling #12 auction celebrates the richness and diversity of the world’s greatest wine regions through a carefully curated collection, bringing together iconic crus and rare bottles from the finest vineyards.

Prestige Champagnes, mature vintages of old Bordeaux, red and white Burgundies from benchmark producers, and characterful Rhône wines: all key expressions of the French terroir are brought together in a coherent and exacting selection.

The journey extends beyond borders: Italy is represented by its most celebrated appellations, from Piedmont to Tuscany, while the United States and Australia showcase the best of New World winemaking through renowned cuvées.

Finally, the collection opens onto the world of spirits, with a refined selection of rare, high-quality Japanese whiskies.

Atlas is a tribute to craftsmanship, to terroir, and to the men and women who elevate them. Through this sale, a true cartography of oenological emotion is offered to you.

consult the catalogue

Lots 1 — 21
Champagne
Prevost, Peters, Boerl & Kroff, Dom Pérignon, Taittinger, Lenoble, Pommery...

Lot 22 — 98
Bordeaux
Latour, Lafite, Trotanoy, Pontet-Canet, Carmes Haut-Brion, Ausone, Petrus, Filhot...

Lots 99 – 166
Burgundy Red
Boillot, Mortet, Rouget, Drouhin, Trapet, Roumier, Liger-Belair, Méo-Camuzet, Dujac, Leroy, Mugnier, Engel, Rousseau, Faively, Perrot-Minot, Romanée-Conti...

Lots 167 – 191
Burgundy White
Bizot, Drouhin, Roulot, Lamy, Ponsot, Montille, Coche-Dury, Jadot, Lamy-Pillot, Leflaive, Bouchard, Ramonet...

Lots 192 – 196
Rhône & Provence
Verset, Guigal, Trévallon

Lots 197 – 205
Italy
Bruno Giacosa, Gattinara, Sandrone, Biondi Santi

Lots 206 – 223
United-States & Australia
Dominus, Hundred Acre, Promontory, Kongsgaard, Penfolds

Lots 224 – 225
Portugal
Madeira

Lots 226 – 227
Germany
Egon Muller

Lots 228 – 229
Whisky
Karuizama

🇨🇭 Geneva
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“Atlas”, live-streamed online "Kipling" #12 auction
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Tuesday 24th of may 2025
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12pm (noon, Paris/Geneva CEST)

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