Archives des #domaineCocheDury - Baghera/Blog https://www.bagherawines-blog.com/tag/domainecochedury/ 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

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Online “wine o’clock” #128
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Tuesday 13thof October 2026
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Château Petrus, the grand return to auction of Bordeaux wines
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Baghera/wines will hold the fourth edition of its quarterly auction on April 28 in Geneva at 1 pm CEST.

Kipling #4 “Pleasures & Plenitude” will bring together a stunning selection of rare wines, including a series of Château Petrus bottles. Unusually, these Pomerols are presented in original six-bottle cases.

The online auction will be live-streamed from Club 1865 by Baghera/wines, at the Beau-Rivage Genève and will feature 148 lots meticulously selected by the Maison’s teams for their rarity, impeccable provenance and quality of conservation and storage.

An exceptional auction with a variety of rare finds

The inventory begins with an impressive suite of lots (47-62), from Château Petrus, covering 1996 to 2013 vintages: offered, in a rare occurrence, by six or 12 in their original wooden and/or cardboard cases. The bottles are all of a level deemed excellent by experts and their pleasing appearance testifies to their impeccable conservation over the years.

The jewel in the crown of the selection is a set of six bottles of Château Petrus from 2000, offered in their original case, freshly unsealed by Baghera/wines’ experts, and estimated at between CHF 24,000 and 48,000.

Among the other lots to watch out and bringing a touch of glamor are a wonderful offering of Champagne Selosse, Louis Roederer, Dom Pérignon and Krug with vintages starting from 1996, along with a number of magnums.

A rare set of six Domaine René Engel, Grands-Echézeaux 1995 magnums will be proposed to devotees of great Pinot Noirs at an estimated price of between CHF 32,000 and 64,000.

Founders of Baghera/wines and auctioneers for the event, Michael Ganne and Julie Carpentier, say: "For this spring auction in Geneva we are delighted to offer a selection of bottles from a handful of European cellars and collections. This is an exceptional auction in which all the lots have unique characteristics and a very exclusive selection of bottles that we would easily recommend to our closest friends. This is how we like to work – on the basis of friendship and loyalty. Whether the superb Petrus admirably offered in cases of six bottles, the bottles and magnums from the René Engel estate or the Vosne-Romanée treasures along with wines from the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Liger-Belair or Arnoux-Lachaux, we are offering a selection featuring the finest. Burgundy and Bordeaux coexist and are sure to delight our passionate customers.”

More than 555 bottles, magnums and large formats spread over 148 lots cover appellations highly coveted by connoisseurs of great terroirs.

Relying on the skills of its experts who are among the most experienced in the world, Baghera/wines is putting its name to a new quarterly spring auction, as always featuring provenance that is as unique as it is exceptional in terms of quality, conservation and storage conditions.

top lots

Lot 17
Domaine Coche-Dury,
Corton-Charlemagne
1996
1 bottle
CHF 3,500 – 7,000

Lot 35
Château Mouton-Rothschild
2000
1 bottle
CHF 3,000 – 6,000

Lot 76
Domaine René Engel
Clos-Vougeot
1991
6 bottles
CHF 9,000 – 18,000

Lot 47
Château Petrus
1996
6 bottles
CHF 12,00 – 24,000

Lot 49
Château Petrus – 2000
6 bottles
CHF 24,000 – 48,000

Lot 78
Domaine René Engel
Grands-Echézeaux
1995
6 bottles
CHF 32,000 – 64,000

Kipling #4 “Pleasures & Plenitude”

Live-streamed online auction

Date: 28 April 2023 at 1 pm CEST

Place: Geneva - SWITZERLAND | Club 1865 by Baghera/wines – Beau-Rivage, Geneva

Total bottles: 555

Number of lots: 148

consult AUCTION CATALOGUE

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