Bottles on the Block
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A trio of wine auctions in New York next weekend will bring down the curtain on a season during which prices for trophy wines soared into a dizzying new realm. Last month, for example, a single lot of wine surpassed the million dollar mark for the first time when a 50 case lot of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1982 sold at Aulden Cellars-Sotheby’s in New York for $1,051,600. Trophy wine is now priced like art rather than beverage.
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