A part of the French presidental office’s wine stock will be auctioned

One-tenth of the French presidental office’s wine stock will be auctioned on 30 and 31 of May. One can then bid for about 1,200 glasses of wine from the 1990 vintage Petrus (estimated to 2,200 eurs) to more modest wines of some at the Hotel Drouot auction house in Paris.

According to the Tuesday statement of the auction house the wines were selected by Virginie Routis, the head of sommeliers at the Elysee Palace’s wine cellar. Mainly Bordeaux and Burgundy wines can be found in the stocks with a couple of wines from the Loire Valley, Alsace, and from the southwestern region and from the Rhone River Valley. (MTI)