One of the world's greatest collections of rare burgundies, amassed from the cellar of New York financier Don Stott, is to auction at Sotheby's New York on May 8-9.

A case of Bonnes Mares Domaine Georges Roumier 1971 will provide the headline lot, with a $32,500-42,500 estimate.

Stott's collection includes some of the world's finest burgundies

Serena Sutcliffe MW, international head of Sotheby's wine department, commented: "The Don Stott cellar is an unrivalled collection of wine, created by someone with a passion that will resonate with all true wine lovers round the world.

"This has to be among the most desirable cellars amassed by anyone, anywhere, born from a devotion to wine that has lasted from the early 1960s."

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