Germany wine auctions 2020 - Trier live atm

Just to note that the VDP are streaming this year's reduced auctions live on their youtube channel.

Trier (Mosel) has started at noon (UK). It is always an odd event, often very slow moving, but you might interested in viewing this for a minute or two. It will likely go on for quite a few hours.

Of the auction wines I have tried, Schafer's Spatlese may be one wine to pick from all of Trier, but everyone knows it. Haag and Schloss Lieser auction wines were also very fine. Of wines I didn't get to try, it seems that there is a also lot of excitement about JJPrum regular Auslese this year (not just MFW). Value will probably be with Clemens-Busch Kab.
 
Prices generally on the softer side of last year so far, but similar. But:

Willi Schaefer Spatlese €123 bottle / €400 mag
Willi Schaefer GKA €375 bottle / €1601 mag
 
No real shocks in pricing this year. No collapse in pricing, Schaefer very much in demand.

As predicted, Clemens-Busch Kab €20 looks like a bargain price for an auction wine of top quality (95 from MFW).

Auction over very quickly relative to history. Bad-Kreuznach (Sunday) will be interesting. Keller Schubertslay x 2 + a very special Donnhoff Auslese etc.
 
Any list of results anywhere. Thanks for updates. Had a few lower level speculative punts and will see if anything comes of them.
That Clemens Busch does indeed look very good value. 20 euros for any good Kab is very acceptable. Not a producer I’ve really tasted or know much about so didn’t bid at all.
 
Prices generally on the softer side of last year so far, but similar. But:

Willi Schaefer Spatlese €123 bottle / €400 mag
Willi Schaefer GKA €375 bottle / €1601 mag
I went in at 97 on the spat. That’s healthy enough. Was it a producer you got involved with. On the regular bottling I have a reasonable amount.
 
Can’t find results but can watch here which is great. Skipped through to lots I was interested and watched like it was live :)
Picked up some Kabs but just missed the Fitz Haag Spatlese by a couple of euros. Went for €75
Prum Spatlese did well €191

 
I had an opportunity to buy a couple of S. Lieser Doctor Kabs ('18?), which I had previously tasted & been suitably impressed. I didn't bother pursuing. Not had any opportunities since to obtain any SL Doctor. :(:oops:
 
The Prum Spatlese magnums went for €191 - not the 75cl which went for €111 I think you'll find Mike. And the auslese went for
€152, which seems pretty reasonable given its reputation.
Yes absolutely correct my mistake. I bid on the bottles thinking more likely to get and bid €98
I could have got the mags based on that !
 
Yes absolutely correct my mistake. I bid on the bottles thinking more likely to get and bid €98
I could have got the mags based on that !

It is always hard to predict the relationship of prices for halves / bottles / magnums. For instance, the 2003 Schaefer BA in 2004, they basically stopped bidding in embarrassment as the halves exceeded the full bottle price that had just been set. Also for limited bottlings of larger formats, there is sometimes a problem as seen in last year's Bad-Kreuznach auction when two bidders were down with "limitless" bids for a single magnum of Donnhoff TBA 2015 (extraordinarily good wine, btw, one of the two best auction TBA's I've ever tasted, along with the 1994 from F. Haag). After an aborted first attempt at bidding there was a pause until one of those with a limitless bid in the books could be reached on the phone (the other person was in the room) and the magnum was re-auctionned setting a record price.
 
And what a wine the Willi Schaefer auction BA 2003 is Paul!

Yes! Perhaps the best auction BA I have drunk. Although if I am being honest one which I didn't particularly care for based on how it showed on the auction day. Which shows one shouldn't always buy (or not buy!) on these random tastings alone (whether German auction wines or cask samples of Burgundy) but just use them as one input into the equation. As it happens, the price was very high on the day, and I wasn't bidding for it anyway. But I have some halves of the regular Schaefer Domprobst 2003: I should give one a try in the near future.
 
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;)

Prices were generally softer than last year for a (significantly?) better vintage.

I must confess I relied on experts' advice on this better vintage claim and bought more than reasonable... but far less than others...;)

And given how good was the Falkenstein spatlese Niedenmenniger Herrenberg feinherb 2018 this week (not to mention a few W Schaefer 2017 and 8 earlier ) ... my expectations are skyhigh...

By the way, never had a Beerenauslese...bags of sugar, I imagine...
 
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Loved the fact you can watch live or later this year and great to see how it works having never visited or been involved.
Hope they keep up this modern innovation for future years.
 
Loved the fact you can watch live or later this year and great to see how it works having never visited or been involved.
Hope they keep up this modern innovation for future years.

Me too. I've enjoyed most of the occasions I have been to Trier but boy the auction can drag on! Downside of not going of course is being unable to taste the wines, though as Paul has pointed out, tasting on the day can lead to big mistakes in one's choices!!
 
Nahe today ... dreadfully slow

Donnhoff Auslese €121 hf / €252 btl / €501 mag

Keller Sylvaner €400 mag
Keller Schubertslay Kab €700 btl / €4610 mag
Keller Schubertslay GKA €1631 btl / €5220 mag
 
Paul, I am a bit lost... I thought I had bought a 6 pack of Keller Sylvaner Feuervogel 2019 for 156£ (if I remember) and it is now on auction for 400€ a magnum. What is different apart you have twice more than in a bottle?
 
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