Precious Chartreuse from France and Spain


05/08/2021

It took two days to sell the contents of a collector’s wine cellar, which also held the rarest spirits.



Yellow Chartreuse, 1840-1969, Pères Chartreux. Result: €41,540
The very well-attended auction totaled €597,000, with the Chartreuse collection alone accounting for €294,300. Two outstanding bottles from Isère, the original home of the medicinal liqueur invented at the Grande-Chartreuse monastery near Grenoble about 1764, took center stage. Read more...