Hermitage La Chapelle ’61 Leads Sotheby’s With Montrachet

Six bottles of Hermitage La Chapelle 1961 Paul Jaboulet Aine from the Rhone region sold for $49,000 at a Sotheby’s New York auction, matching its estimate at a sale where a magnum of the same wine fetched $30,625.

The auction, comprising wines from the collection of Netscape Communications Corp. founder James H. Clark, also included a seven-bottle lot of Montrachet 1985 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti and a six-liter Methuselah of Montrachet 1986 DRC, each of which sold for $42,875, beating estimates.