Three bottles of Chateau Petrus 2000 Pomerol fetched top price of £6,600 (€7,765 ) at a sale of UK wine writer Hugh Johnson’s private collection at Sworders auction house north of London, according to its website.

A case of Chateau Haut-Brion 1990 sold for £3,900 (€4,586) and 12 bottles of Chateau Margaux 1996 fetched £3,800 (€4,469) at Sworders, based in Stansted Mountfitchet. All three lots were within pre-sale estimates, and the amount sold totalled about £88,000 (103,489).

Johnson is the author of an annual pocket guide to wine that has been published since 1977, as well as the World Atlas of Wine. Decanter magazine, to which Johnson contributes, said he was selling the wine because of a move to a smaller house closer to London from his family home of 40 years in Essex.

Eleven lots of 1982 Bordeaux wines, including eight cases of Chateau Latour and three double magnums of Chateau Petrus, are estimated to fetch as much as £12,000 (€14,112) each at a Sotheby’s (BID) sale in London on Wednesday.

A single bottle of Romanee-Conti 2005 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Burgundy carries a price tag of as much as £8,000 (€9,406), while a similar one from 2009 is estimated at as much as £7,500 (€8,818), according to Sotheby’s online catalogue. Eight cases of Latour 1996 are estimated at as much as £4,400 (€5,174) each.

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