Bottle of wine sells for record €100,000 in Italy

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Published 3 years, 4 months ago

A bottle of wine sold at auction for €100,000 has set a new record for the highest price ever paid in Italy, according to local media.

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The bottle in question is a jeroboam, a double magnum, in other words three litres (four times the volume of ...

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