Wine auction June 2 to June 8

[Techman]

Les Chenêts wine collection to be sold off
Wine lovers, place your bids. Part of a mighty wine collection is up for auction June 2-9. The bottles – 3,900 of them – are part of the vast stock that belonged to one of Montreal's old-school French restaurants, Les Chenêts, which closed last year.

Wine Spectator has called the collection one of the best in Canada. The Gazette fine-dining critic, Lesley Chesterman, went farther when she reviewed the Bishop St. restaurant in 2000: "One of the finest in this hemisphere." At one time, it consisted of more than 46,000 bottles. Now, 27,000 remain.

I was going to put this in the restaurant thread but thought it might just get lost there. I know there are a number of fine wine lovers on MERB and thought this might be of interest.

You can find a detailed list of what is being offered here, in downloadable pdf format. Just right click and select 'save target' or click to open in your browser.

http://www.iegor.net/saq/listedeslots.pdf

Online viewing with colour photos is available here:

http://www.iegor.net/saq/page3.php

More details and the source of the above quote can be found here:

http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/shopchopeat/archive/2009/05/25/les-chen-234-ts-wine-collection-to-be-sold-off.aspx