Sotheby’s wine specialist Serena Sutcliffe MW said: “I think it’s almost unheard of that a cellar of such treasures can become available to anyone in the world who happens to be passionate about fine wine because there really is no normal opportunity to get these wines.”
It’s great to see the picture of an authentic bottle of 1945 Romanee Conti, showing the capsule, label and the lack of a neck label. It would be interesting to compare those bottles with the fakes that Acker and Rudi were pawning off on people, just to see how close Rudi got in his counterfeiting scheme.