For five days, from November 11 to the evening of November 15, the first person entering the auction house’s wine store in New York who offers the price can have the 600-bottle collection. “I thought of doing this for fun, because it is,” said Jamie Ritchie, Sotheby’s head of wines in North America. “Opus One is the most requested Californian wine in our retail shop.” Ritchie said the idea for the unusual sale occurred when an unnamed seller came into the shop and asked if the auction house was interested in selling the Bordeaux-style blend, the result of a 1979 joint venture between California’s Robert Mondavi and France’s Baroness Philippine de Rothschild. To read more, click here