March 21, 2025 (Geneva) — Baghera/wines is honoured to present a rare and fascinating auction that will take place on April 11, 2025: Kipling #10 Legends – The 20th Century in Bottles – a unique collection of unparalleled quality and provenance. A true journey through time, this selection highlights the greatest vintages of the 20th century, carefully gathered by a passionate collector. A total of 288 lots will be offered, covering a wide range of fine wines from 1865 to 1982. With an impressive diversity, this event is part of the exceptional quarterly auctions that Baghera/wines has been organizing for over two years.
All from a single-owner collection, each lot tells a story, each bottle represents an era, and each vintage evokes a memory. Among the wines offered, discover the great cuvées from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
In this exceptional auction, the great wines of Burgundy come along with the prestigious Bordeaux crus, united by a common denominator: they were all produced during the 20th century. Among them are estates and appellations as sought-after as: Liger-Belair, Prosper Maufoux, Bouchard Ainé, Drouhin, Morin, Noëllat, Lupé Cholet, Louis Latour, Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Haut-Brion, Latour, Yquem…
These wines, meticulously stored, come from a cellar that can be described as ideal. As always, Baghera/wines offers wines of impeccable quality and unquestionable provenance. These are rare bottles, ready to be tasted, revealing all the secrets accumulated over the past century.
What defines a legendary wine is, notably, its exceptional vintage, its extraordinary aging potential, and its perfect provenance. Kipling #10 brings together wines that all embody these qualities to perfection. The bottles, having been stored for decades in a Parisian cellar, are now being offered to collectors and enthusiasts who will have the chance to taste history.
Michael Ganne, founder of Baghera/wines, comments on this collection: “Tasting a wine that is over 100 years old is a unique and emotional experience. These rare and living bottles will awaken the senses of all those who taste them in an unforgettable way – they will transport those who choose to keep them into a bygone era. In both cases, the future owners will have the opportunity to touch a chapter of the history of the prestigious French vineyard.”
Key details of the KIPLING #10 auction by Baghera/wines:
Auction date: April 11, 2025, 12:00 PM CET
Number of lots: 288
Live streaming auction: Also broadcast live for the international public
Online catalog access: Available at www.bagherawines.com
Total bottles: 9 half-bottles, 1068 bottles, 36 magnums
ABOUT BAGHERA/WINES, EXPERT BUREAU FOR EXCEPTIONAL WINES
As Europe’s leading auction house for rare wines, based in Geneva, Baghera/wines offers a new approach to these exceptional wine auctions by putting conviviality and exchange at the heart of the experience. Since 2015, the team of passionate experts, has established a bureau exclusively dedicated to rare wines, assisting collectors in all aspects of enhancing their collections. In 2018-19, the historic sale of Henri Jayer’s personal cellar, to date the world’s largest auction ever held (CHF 34.5M), followed by the unprecedented sale exclusively dedicated to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti wines, and the sale of the last bottles from Domaine René Engel, propelled Baghera/wines to the forefront of European wine auctions. The experienced team gathered around Baghera/wines’ experts offers bespoke, close, and excellent advice to international collectors passionate about fine and rare wines: organizing master classes, selecting wines for private tastings, dinners, and events combining music and wine. In September 2020, Baghera/wines officially inaugurated its new Geneva entity, a private club and boutique dedicated to fine wines within Beau-Rivage, Geneva. In October 2022, the company further expanded its activities in Asia, opening Baghera/wines Singapore Ltd in Singapore, starting to hold physical and online auctions from December 2022. The year 2023 saw the creation of Baghera/wines France, capable of organizing auctions in France, with a second club for collectors and event activities inaugurated in Nuits-St Georges.
