v3 Chapter 662： Face is green

Although a series of auctions of Chinese cultural relics are relatively deserted, but the flaws are not concealed, the whole auction is mostly in a hot atmosphere.

After all, this auction is a summer auction held by Sotheby’s. There are only four auctions a year like this grade, and it is for the entire United Kingdom. Even because there are good things, there will be people in other European and American countries. Come bidding.

"The following lot, I believe most people will be interested, two 1945 Romanie Conti wines from the French Château Romanni Conti."

With a smile, the auctioneer introduced that he opened the lid and placed it on the table. The white wooden box facing the venue was placed diagonally, with two wines lying there quietly.

Sure enough, many people at the scene showed interest, and some good wine lovers even pursed their lips, as if the wine had already been poured in front of them.

Looking at Xia Yu looking at the picture album with interest, Wu Hongyi smiled and said, "Xia Yu, did you like these two bottles of wine?"

Xia Yu calmly nodded and smiled: "Well, since it's here, I can't go home empty-handed for the sake of face. It happens to be your treat tonight. I will bring these two bottles of bar to taste the world's only hundreds of bottles of wine. taste."

Listening to Xia Yu's tone, although the auctioneer has not announced the official bid, the two bottles of wine are already in his pocket.

In fact, for Xia Yu's wealth, he was determined to take the two bottles of wine, and no one could stop him!

For foreign wines, most ordinary people only know Lafite.

Located in Bordeaux, France, Lafite Winery, which belongs to the famous Rohill family, is one of the top five wineries in the world.

If Lafite is the LV of the wine world, then Romani Conti is the Hermes of the wine world, synonymous with the most rare and noble wine in the world.

Chateau Romanni Conti dates back more than 900 BC and is one of the oldest wine estates in France. The output is very small, with an average annual output of about 6,000 bottles, which is less than one-fifth of Lafite Estate On average, only one bottle of red wine can be produced for every three wines.

With such a scarce output, a part of it must be used for storage. Therefore, the Romani Conti wines on the market are very scarce, and they are all the products of the rich.

The Romani Conti wine in 1945 is even rarer, only one-tenth of the usual output.

In the spring of 1945, due to hailstones and the Second World War, the old vines of the vineyard suffered heavy casualties, resulting in a large reduction in grape production. The situation was extremely bleak. As a result, the original production volume of Romani Conti was only very small. 608 bottles.

After the harvest season in 1945, the winery uprooted the original roots and old vines left by the Romani Conti vineyard before phylloxera. Although new saplings were later planted from the neighboring Latahi vineyards, the winery kept the wine The quality of Romani Conti has not been produced for the next 6 years.

In other words, from 1946 to 1951, there was no new wine of Romani Conti on the market.

Therefore, 1945 has a very special significance for the Romani Conti winery.

According to the estimates of Romani Conti Winery, including the wines they store, there are no more than two hundred 1945 wines in the world today.

I still remember that in a previous life, Sotheby’s auction house sold three bottles of 1869 Lafite at a high price in 1869. The price of each bottle was 233,000 US dollars. The total price of the three bottles was about 5 million yuan. Lafite became the most expensive wine in the world.

But in 2018, at the wine auction held by Sotheby’s Auction House, a bottle of 1945 Romani Conti wine finally sold for 558,000 U.S. dollars. This price broke the 23.3 value held by Lafite in 1869. The world record of ten thousand dollars.

And this is only the price of one, and the year is 76 years less than the auctioned Lafite!

And later, some people wanted to buy a bottle of 1945 Romani Conti at this price to taste, but no one ever sold it, there was no market!

In his previous life, Xia Yu was not qualified to taste this kind of wine. After all, one sip of this kind of wine was equivalent to drinking a toilet in a second-tier city.

Now that the opportunity is in front of him, and he is not short of money, he naturally wants to buy it and taste it.

"Next, I announce that the reserve price is 25,000 pounds, and each increase shall not be less than 1,000 pounds. The auction begins!"

"Duang~"

The hammer fell, and people kept bidding.

26,000 pounds!

Twenty-seven thousand pounds!

...

Fifty-eight thousand pounds!

In less than a minute, the price soared to nearly 60,000 pounds.

Of course, there are fewer and fewer bidders, and only four are still following.

The Romani Conti in 1945 is only 34 years ago, and it is not a long time.

Now I went to Bordeaux, France, and spent 30,000 pounds, 100 years of wine can definitely be bought.

In the eyes of many people, the two wines in front of them are also important. In fact, the taste is not as good as other 70-80-year-old or even 100-year-old wines. There is no need to spend this money.

After another half a minute, the price soared to seventy-eight thousand pounds, and the competitor was left with only one middle-aged man who kept increasing the price fiercely.

Xia Yu didn't wait any longer. Just when the middle-aged man just showed a smile, he raised the sign and uttered two words lightly: "Add 10,000 pounds!"

He was too lazy to grind a thousand pounds with others, and directly increased the price by 10,000 pounds, showing his attitude of certainty, and letting them retreat.

Sure enough, as soon as Xia Yu's price came out, the smile on the face of the middle-aged man who had been increasing the price solidified, hesitating again and again, and finally did not raise the sign.

After three readings, there was no bidding, and two 1945 Romanie Conti wines were bought by Xia Yu for 88,000 pounds.

"Eighty-eight thousand, this number is auspicious, it seems that I will drink more tonight to get your wealth!"

Wu Hongyi smiled and said to Xia Yu.

"Haha, this is what you said, not drunk or go home!"

Xia Yu smiled and said.

Next, Xia Yu did not participate in the bidding anymore, instead Wu Hongyi paid one hundred thousand pounds for an oil painting.

According to him, it is not good to go back empty-handed, so he simply buys a painting and hangs it in the office to add an exotic touch to his collection.

Xia Yu didn't do it himself, it doesn't mean that the people he arranged didn't do it.

After four days of summer photography, all the Chinese cultural relics were photographed by five people arranged by him. The prices were high and low. A total of forty-eight fine cultural relics were sold for a total of 1.7 million pounds.

Only when the summer auction was over and the money was to be delivered, none of these five people showed up and all refused to pay.

Over time, the people at Sotheby's auction house and Giuseppe Eskenazi knew that something was wrong.

The general manager of the London branch of Sotheby's auction house hurriedly jumped and refused to pay for 48 lots. This was the first time this happened in more than 100 years. He couldn't bear this responsibility!

And Giuseppe Eskenazi, the provider of all the lots, is not much better. In the reception room of Sotheby’s auction house, he looks ugly at Sotheby’s general manager in front of him~www.novelhall.com ~ Very angry in my heart.

He was overcast!

Generally speaking, it is normal for the auctions to pass the auction. The auction house can negotiate with the seller and then sell it privately.

But the situation is completely different now.

All Chinese cultural relics were provided by him, and the buyer refused to pay after all the auctions went out. According to the agreement signed between him and Sotheby's auction house, he also had to give 25% of the commission to Sotheby's auction house.

"Mr. Giuseppe, now that this unexpected situation has occurred, I am really sorry, but we are not strict."

"I wonder if this is possible? Shall we contact the second buyer who made the previous bid and make a deal with their bid?"

In order to minimize the impact, Sotheby's general manager took a deep breath and suggested to Giuseppe Eskenazi.

This is a common method used by auction houses after the buyer refuses to pay. After discussing with the seller, contact the second buyer to sell the lot.

Only this time is completely different. Giuseppe Eskenazi's face suddenly turned green when he heard Sotheby's general manager's words.

Because of these forty-eight lots, the second highest bid was all arranged by him!

Is this asking him to spend £1.67 million to buy back all the lots he offered?

And also pay the seller 25% commission, and the buyer 10% commission, a total of 35%, more than 500,000 pounds!

I’m busy with it. If the hype plan of Huaxia Cultural Relics is broken, it takes time and effort to cost him more than 500,000 pounds!

How does this work?

He won’t agree unless he gets his brain pumped!

PS: I unknowingly wrote that after four o'clock in the morning, I have to get up and go to work after seven o'clock in the morning, my **** is too bad o(╥﹏╥)o

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