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History was made when a rare bottle of Grand Constance 1821 reached a record-breaking R420 000 at the Cape Fine & Rare Wine Auction.

The Cape Fine & Rare Wine Auction took place at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch recently. A rare bottle of Grand Constance 1821 reached a record-breaking R420 000. At the end of the auction the unaudited total results stood at R2 219 200. A rare bottle of Grand Constance 1821 reached a record-breaking R420 000 at the recent Cape Fine & Rare Wine Auction. The price was unaudited and excluding VAT. The bottle is one of roughly twelve known to still exist globally, from an allocation originally destined for the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. It was acquired by a UK-based client of auction house C...

In what has been hailed as historic, the bottle reached a record-breaking R420 000.

History was made in the Cape winelands when a rare bottle of Grand Constance 1821 reached a record-breaking R420,000 at the Cape Fine & Rare Wine Auction on Saturday.

The 200-year old wine is the sweet and nectar-like Grand Constance 1821 An incredibly rare bottle of wine, once destined to be enjoyed by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, is to go under the hammer at Christie’s later this month as part of the Cape Fine + Rare auction. The 200-year old wine is the sweet and nectar-like Grand Constance 1821, made in Constantia near Cape Town. Napoleon was fabled to drink a bottle of the stuff every day and after his death in May 1821, his allocation was liberated for general sale. It’s thought that fewer than a dozen bottles of this vintage still exist and, with...