Hart Davis Hart Auction Co. [email protected] www.hdhauctions.com tel: 312.482.9996 12 Auction 2611 IMPRESSIVE OLD AND NEW WORLD GEMS Sourced responsibly and housed in a purpose-built, temperature- controlled home cellar Château Pétrus 1982 Pomerol Label slightly bin marked and slightly creased “...youthful with a little earthiness and singed leather infusing the dark berry fruit...The palate is wonderful: fi ne tannin, perfectly pitched acidity, great depth and complexity...” (97 points) Neal Martin, Vinous.com, Sep 2018 136 1 bottle per lot $2600–3800 Château Pétrus 1990 Pomerol Base neck; label slightly scuff ed “This is a legend and lives up to it. Dense and opulent with layers of ripe, powerful, pure and rich fruit across the board...” (100 points) JS, June 2016 137 1 bottle per lot $2800–4200 Château Le Pin 1995 Pomerol Base neck; label slightly damp stained “...a pleasant mineralité here and impressive purity. The palate is fresh and vibrant, a mixture or red and black fruit with a subtle marine infl uence. Classy and sophisticated...” (93 points) Neal Martin, Vinous.com, Feb 2018 138 1 bottle per lot $1500–2200 Château Lafi te Rothschild 1982 Label bin marked (1) Château Latour 1982 Top shoulder; label slightly creased and slightly damp stained (1) 139 Above 2 bottles per lot $2400–3500 DOMAINE DE LA ROMANEE-CONTI La Tâche 1990 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Côte de Nuits, grand cru Two labels scuff ed, one bin marked “...perfume of Asian spices as well as jammy black raspberries, cherries, and blackberries infused with smoke, toast, and dried herbs...layers of fl avor...” (100 points) Robert Parker, WA E2002, Jan 2002 140 2 bottles per lot $11000–17000 Grands-Echézeaux 1996 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label slightly scuff marked “...well-defi ned bouquet with black fruit rather than red, briary, juniper and subtle tobacco aromas...medium-bodied and beautifully balanced... Impressive...” (94 points) Neal Martin, Vinous.com, May 2019 141 1 bottle per lot $1700–2600 Richebourg 1999 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label scuff marked “...chiseled aromas of dark berry fruit, briar, crushed stone and just a touch of rose petal...possesses a palpable sense of majesty and aristocracy... Stunning...” (97 points) Neal Martin, Vinous.com, June 2019 142 1 bottle per lot $3500–5500 Richebourg 2000 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label scuff marked “...Open-knit on the nose and quite ferrous, it gains cohesion with hints of peat and black truffl e...fi ne acidity and the structure and length you want from a Richebourg...” (93 points) Neal Martin, Vinous.com, June 2025 143 1 bottle per lot $2200–3200 Echézeaux 2000 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label scuff marked “...bursts open with infectious joie de vivre. The palate is medium-bodied, quite linear at fi rst with superb tension and energy...Loire-like, sappy fi nish is beguiling...” (92 points) Neal Martin, WA #218, Apr 2015 144 1 bottle per lot $1900–2800 Grands-Echézeaux 2000 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label slightly bin soiled and slightly scuff marked “...a vibrant red berry, stony bouquet that is reserved at fi rst, but opens nicely with limestone and sea-spray scents...complex, with hints of black olive and chlorophyll...” (92 points) Neal Martin, WA #218, Apr 2015 145 1 bottle per lot $2000–3000 Grands-Echézeaux 2001 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Côte de Nuits, grand cru One label bin marked, one scuff marked “...elegant ripe, pure, intense, beautifully delineated crushed black fruit aromas...powerful wine, indeed even a forceful one but with no lack of class...” (93 points) AM, Issue 23, July 2006 146 2 bottles per lot $4800–7500 Romanée-St-Vivant 2002 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label nicked and scuff marked “...aromas and fl avors of cherry, dried rose, cinnamon and herbs. Not an opulent style but boasts terrifi c defi nition and energy to its strong cherry and berry fl avors...” (95+ points) ST, Vinous.com, Feb 2016 147 1 bottle per lot $2400–3500 DOMAINE LEROY / DOMAINE D'AUVENAY Vosne-Romanée, Beaux Monts 1988 Domaine Leroy Côte de Nuits, 1er cru Label scuff marked “...wonderfully complex aromas of spice, earth and after one hour there are the beginning traces of sous bois...a velvet peacock’s tail of nuanced complexity...” (92 points) AM, May 2003 148 1 bottle per lot $1700–2600 Clos Vougeot 1996 Domaine Leroy Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label slightly bin soiled; vintage label slightly bin marked “...red cherry, rose, raspberry, and cinnamon aromas...satin-textured personality...bright black raspberries, cherries, blackberries, and copious spices...” (95 points) Pierre Rovani, WA #131, Oct 2000 149 1 bottle per lot $2000–3000 Bonnes-Mares 1997 Domaine d’Auvenay (Leroy) Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label scuff marked; slight signs of past seepage “...deep aromas of baked plums, blackberries, and sealing wax...a thick, full-bodied, jammy wine with plump layers of roasted dark fruits, hints of leather and stones...” (94 points) Pierre Rovani, WA #125, Oct 1999 150 1 bottle per lot $2800–4200 Richebourg 1999 Domaine Leroy Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label slightly scuff marked “...plenty of Richebourg power in the glass, and yet the 1999 has an unmistakable aura of delicacy, in relative terms of course. Open-knit and inviting...” (97 points) AG, Vinous.com, Oct 2018 151 1 bottle per lot $5500–8500 Richebourg 2000 Domaine Leroy Côte de Nuits, grand cru Label scuff marked and slightly torn “Cherries, raspberries, and cinnamon explode from the glass...A dense, bold, medium to full-bodied wine...slathers the palate with loads of jammy red and black fruits...” (94 points) Pierre Rovani, WA #147, June 2003 152 1 bottle per lot $5500–8500 Chambertin, Clos de Bèze 1985 Armand Rousseau Côte de Nuits, grand cru 3.5cm; label damp stained; slight signs of past seepage “...soaring and very expressive nose of kaleidoscope breadth as it displays spicy, earthy and sous bois-infused aromas...medium-bodied and utterly delicious fl avors...” (93 points) AM, Issue 60, Oct 2015 153 1 bottle per lot $4800–7500