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Action-Packed Hong Kong Wine Auction Sees Record Sale, Means Much More

Could the record-breaking winning bid on a super lot of Pinot Noir signify better times on China’s horizon?

The world record for the most expensive lot of wine ever sold has been broken as of Saturday with the former price of $1.05 million (USD) being replaced with the new figure of $1.6 million. The wine was sold by Sotheby’s and consisted of 114 bottles of Romanee-Conti from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti. The lot was made up of six bottles from each vintage from 1992-2010. The buyer’s name has not been released.

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Woman Dies While Working With Wine

A 25-year old woman is the first fatality in an ages old tradition of Spanish winemaking

Salas de los Barrios, Spain — Nerea Perez, a 25-year-old Socialist activist, was killed while working with her uncle in his wine-making visit. It is grape harvest in Spain so many people are helping with the process, including helping to stir the wine. It is tradition in Spain to stir the vats while the wine is fermenting. This process, which allows much more contact with the lees, is believed to deepen the complexity of the wine..

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