Acker Merrall vs HDH auction experience as seller

[alan_weinberg]

Thank you Tom,

I actually had learned a lot.

Fortunately, all of the btls I received from PC arrived in pristine condition with no sign of heat damage,
slightly raised corks etc

off thread but when is John Fox out so he can start repaying all of us?

[Dennis_Borczon]

Anyone check out the latest Acker auction results? Top 25 lots all Burgundy. Staggering numbers.

[D_HEIN]

SEPTEMBER SETS FALL SEASON ON FIRE AS COLLECTION OF WILF JAEGER SOARS PAST HIGH ESTIMATE OVER $7M SOLD AND AN ASTOUNDING 312 WORLD RECORDS SET, NEARLY ONE-THIRD OF ALL NON-MIXED LOTS BURGUNDY DOMINATES TOP LOTS LED BY ROUSSEAU, DRC, LEROY, DUJAC AND HENRI JAYER

Three Top Lots from Saturday’s Auction
Lot 417: 12 bottles of 1990 Rousseau Chambertin
Lot 785: 2 magnums of 1985 Dujac Bonnes Mares
Lot 985: A 3 bottle banded OWC of 2002 DRC Romanee Conti
New York City, NY – September 10th, 2018 – Burgundy didn’t take a vacation this summer in the minds of collectors worldwide, as demand for these Domaines continued unabated during Acker Merrall’s first auction of the Fall Season. The auction totaled over US$7 Million, led by the Amazing Collection of Wilf Jaeger, one of the World’s most renowned Burgundy connoisseurs, a collection that surged past its high estimate thanks to over 300 lots of the finest and rarest Burgundies within. An astounding 312 New World Records were set in this momentous sale, and all twenty-five of the top lots were from Burgundy. Almost one-third of all non-mixed lots set World Records, and the 312 lots represent a record number for Acker Merrall for any given sale. The sale set the stage for Acker’s first Hong Kong auction of the Fall season on September 22, which features an extraordinary amount of wines from Domaine de la Romanee Conti.

All of the sale’s Top Ten Lots were from Burgundy; in fact, so were the Top 25. Rousseau took the top three spots, led by a unique 45-bottle vertical collection from 1964 to 2015 of Chambertin which sold for $124,000. That was followed by a twelve bottle OCB of 1990 Rousseau Chambertin selling for $93,000, and a extremely rare jeroboam of 1959 Rousseau Chambertin trading for $74,400. The Domaine de la Romanee Conti’s 1999 Assortment in banded OWC sold for $62,000, as did an OWC of 2009 Domaine Leroy Richebourg from the collection of Wilf Jaeger. His amazing collection was also the previous home for the two lots which followed, a twelve bottle lot of 1999 Henri for Georges Jayer Echezeaux bought for $55,800 and a 3-bottle banded OWC of the 2002 Romanee Conti which sold for $52,080. During a day of many sought after Dujac lots, the number eight slot was taken by a rare six magnum OWC of Dujac Chambertin selling for $47,120. Completing the day’s Top 10 and the clean sweep for Burgundy was a Jeroboam of 1991 DRC La Tache at $44,640 and another rare Rousseau vertical collection, 34-bottles of Gevrey Chambertin Clos St. Jacques between 1964 and 2013 at $43,400.

The firm’s 312 New World Records was its highest total ever since tracking and almost one-third of the entire auction’s non-mixed lots, an astounding amount. Domaine Dujac led the day’s total with 26, while Leroy/d’Auvenay was a close second with 24. There were 11 records for Drouhin, 10 each for Rousseau and Ramonet, 8 too for both Roumier and DRC plus 6 each for d’Angerville and Roulot, showing the breadth and depth of demand up and down the Cote de Nuits and Cote de Beaune in Burgundy.

[Alan_Rath]

I guess Wilf won’t be buying much wine from those domaines any more.

[CFu]

I guess Wilf won’t be buying much wine from those domaines any more.

You think they’d sell to him still if he traded it away instead?

[Ray.Tuppa_sch]

I guess Wilf won’t be buying much wine from those domaines any more.

Some of his relationships will remained unchanged. Can’t speak about all of them.

He did a similar sale with Acker about 10-12 years ago.

[Sara_Gim]

I guess Wilf won’t be buying much wine from those domaines any more.

Some of his relationships will remained unchanged. Can’t speak about all of them.

He did a similar sale with Acker about 10-12 years ago.

That’s correct Ray, it was called Dr Vino, single owner cat…but do you remember Kapon’s writeup about those wines…provenance stuff? For the discussion, would be ‘interesting’ to say the least.

JK had to back track bc there was already a dr vino blog. Lil story, I was talking to John Fox around that time as he had been bringing in the Siguen Moreau’s from the same period of those in that catalog. Fox advised me he didn’t think all that much of them. And if you remember wilf supplied the wine list for that famous rest that Raj (sp?) was the somm at, so many odd/goofy lower-end stuff producers…seems like all the big players have stuff in their cellars they’d like to dump on the auction market, imho. Kinda like when Bipin Desai invited me to his mega $1500 78 Bug tasting, that I declined & never got an invite from him again. Bipin had amassed a huge # of '78’s and it was 3day tasting, standing only…<wft is up with that??? So many odd-ball producers, not talking about then relatively unknown to those who like me were not yet super knowledgeable, like Clair-dau, but really odd such that François Audouze might have wanted to try, but I certainly did not want to stand up tasting 150 burgs over 3day, most of them unknown. Told him, I’d love to just pay something like $500 for just the top 10-20(Jayer, DRC, etc)…don’t recall if DRC RC was in the line up…might still have the FAX of the lineup Bipin sent me circa 1993?. Oh, well that was then.
hmm, got to go upload my copy of the catalog cover, here’s the wayback link:Acker Merrall & Condit - Catalogue Download
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As far as the OP, his wines are not counterfeit, so if you want max profits, go for Acker HK for Bordeaux…if you’ve got a lot of those.

But as a buyer, steer clear of Acker…can dig up some emails from them, JK in particular if, we want to trash talk like an Italian Brooklyn NYkr…hey were’s that Italian from NY, trumpism> “Lil Big Boy” (nick like Lil Boy dropped on Hiroshima…kinda like an thermal nuclear big blast of hotair explosion overtook the wine world wine the lumber started to fall, lol). Big Boy used to buy, this is around that time, even after the Rudy sale, '82 Salon off of winecommune.com of quite dubious provenance…I msg him on WC, about '74 Cristal Rose after reading what JK had posted, so I know it was the one and only KOC.

[Ray.Tuppa_sch]

And if you remember wilf supplied the wine list for that famous rest that Raj (sp?) was the somm at,

RN74

[Neal.Mollen]

oddly enough i have purchased wine from hart davis hart which had an acker merrall sticker on the back of it…

i’m curious if people who refuse to do business with acker also refuse to purchase and drink wine from producers who directly consign with them?

Does that mean we have to ban Tom from this board as Todd and I refuse to do business with Acker? Where does the spiral end of how far we have to disassociate ourselves with Acker?

I am boycotting American Standard and Koehler because they facilitate the drinking of wines bought from Acker

[David_Glasser]

Neal, I hope your home has Toto toilets.

[michaelgor]

WOW!!

a simple DS (Dumb Sh*t) post from me

what a response!

[michaelgor]

oddly enough i have purchased wine from hart davis hart which had an acker merrall sticker on the back of it…

i’m curious if people who refuse to do business with acker also refuse to purchase and drink wine from producers who directly consign with them?

Does that mean we have to ban Tom from this board as Todd and I refuse to do business with Acker? Where does the spiral end of how far we have to disassociate ourselves with Acker?

I am boycotting American Standard and Koehler because they facilitate the drinking of wines bought from Acker

RU SHITT*NG ME?