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Sotheby’s Hong Kong To Offer The Bordeaux Collection from SK Networks

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s announced their inaugural auction with SK Networks on 30 October 2010 at the Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong. SK Networks is a major subsidiary of Korea’s third largest conglomerate, the SK Group, who in 2005 expanded their outreach to wine by creating a wine business division and the Wine Networks brand to promote their venture. SK Networks started as a post-war textile business, which quickly blossomed into a worldwide force with holdings in natural resources, telecom, finance, automobiles, and fashion. Using their unprecedented buying power, SK Networks now has some of the most impressive allocations from the top classified Bordeaux growths. In short, SK Networks can offer wines in rarely seen quantities from the best châteaux. This auction alone features 161 cases of Lafite with 20 case parcels each of 1986, 1990, 1995, 1996, and 2003. There are 15 or more cases of Latour 1995, 1996, and 2003; M