WINE AUCTION: ON OCTOBER 2ND IN ROME, GELARDINI & ROMANI WILL AUCTION 500 LOTS. THE ABSOLUTE PROTAGONISTS ARE 4 UNIQUE PRIVATE LABEL COLLECTIONS... THE BEST OF ITALY AND THE WORLD, EVEN IN LARGE FORMATS, FOR SALE

The yearly appointment in Rome of the best collections of wine from Italy and the world offered at the Gelardini & Romani Wine Auction is back. It is the first auction house in Italy specialized in wine. The auction will be held in Rome on October 2nd (at 4 pm in Via Fugue 1/c). It will feature a unique selection of white, red, Italian and French wines, from four major private Italian collections; all purchases directly from producers/importers. The catalog lists 500 lots, more than 1.400 bottles including magnum, Jeroboam and imperial and 200 lots of “collectibles”, all at the lowest auction base price in Europe.

One of the highlights is a refined collection belonging to a woman. It is an amazing collection of old Bordeaux wines in large format (which represent the entire offer of this type in the catalog) bottled expressly for a collector from the Lombardy region. Since the 70’s, she has kept them in the cellars of her country home together with over 200 bottles of Ornellaia and Masseto in complete vertical, from 1987 to 1997, collected by a friend that preserved them in the cellars of a sixteenth century palace. The bottles arrived directly from the estate, as certified by the transport documents. Gelardini & Romani picked up the collections from the cellars and transported them to Rome, after verifying the ideal conditions in which to preserve them.

The cellars, protagonists of this exceptional wine auction, are the most famous names in Italian wines: Bertani (oldest vintage 1988), Quintarelli (oldest vintage 1993) and Dal Forno with Amarone (oldest vintage 1993). Angelo Gaja with much of his production: Langhe Darmagi (oldest vintage 1993), Barbaresco (oldest vintage 1987), Sori San Lorenzo (oldest vintage 1995), Costa Russi (oldest vintage 1995), Sori Tildin (oldest vintage 1993). Piedmont is also represented with Barolo of Fontanafredda (oldest vintage Vigna Delizia 1997), Roberto Voerzio (oldest vintage Brunate 1995), Sandrone (oldest vintage Cannubi Boschis 1996) and Angelo Gaja (oldest vintage Sperss 1991), as well as the classics: Giacomo Conterno, Cascina France (oldest vintage 1996) and Monfortino (oldest vintage 1988).

The Super Tuscans are represented practically in full force: Tignanello (oldest vintage 1982) and Solaia (oldest vintage 1988) of Antinori, Fontalloro of Felsina (oldest vintage 1997), Olena Cepparello of Olena Islands (oldest vintage 1997), Flaccianello of Fontodi (oldest vintage 1998), Percarlo of San Giusto a Rentennano (oldest vintage 1997), Pergole Torte of Montevertine (oldest vintage 1994), Apparita of Castello di Ama (oldest vintage 1989), Luce of Mondavi-Frescobaldi (oldest vintage 1997), Oreno of Sette Ponti Estate (oldest vintage 1999); also, Galatrona of Petrolo (oldest vintage 1998), Trinoro Estate owned by Andrea Franchetti (oldest vintage 1999) , Syrah Il Bosco of D’Alessandro Estates (oldest vintage 1997), Redigaffi (oldest vintage 2001) and Il Giusto di Notri of Tua Rita (oldest vintage 1997) and of course the “bolgheresi” - Sassicaia of San Guido Estate (oldest vintage 1979), Paleo (oldest vintage 1998), Scrio (oldest vintage 1999) and Messorio of the Macchiole (oldest vintage 2001), Guado al Tasso of Antinori (oldest vintage 1993), Ornellaia (oldest vintage 1987) and Masseto (oldest vintage 1987) of Ornellaia Estate.

The “Bordeaux” wines are: Château Cos d’Estournel (oldest vintage 1990), Château Kirwan (2005), Château Margaux (oldest vintage 1966), Château Pichon L. Baron (oldest vintage 1983), Chateau Lynch Bages (oldest vintage 1988), Chateau Pontet Canet (2005), Chateau Latour (oldest vintage 1973), Château Mouton Rothschild (oldest vintage 1970), Carruades de Lafite (2005), Château Lafite Rothschild (oldest vintage 1985), Château La Mission Haut Brion (2005), Chateau Haut Brion (oldest vintage 1985) and Petrus (oldest vintage 1973).