The Extraordinary Wine Cellar of Dr Allard Botenga | Christie's inc 

at his age I'd be blasting a bottle a day and enjoy the fruits of my labor. Maybe even two bottles lol

I love the humbleness of the cellar.

What an amazing cellar. It’s worth millions yet it maintains its character.

If I was you age I would start drinking all the collection. Enjoy it!

First part of his collection just has been sold for more than $5m in Hong Kong

Thanks for the tour, the education, and a glimpse into a life well- lived.

Fantastic... so low keyed.. fabulous wines indeed !!!

As teenagers, my parents moved us out to a subdivision in the woods 12 miles outside of a small town. It was very boring, so my dad bought a 3 wheeler off a guy for my brother and I to ride around. We found there was more than a few old, abandoned properties scattered around in the woods. We would ride around looking for them to explore. We found a little cabin pretty far out that was like a time capsule from the 1980's. You could tell the owners were elderly from some of the things we found in there. There was a wine rack in the kitchen with 3 bottles of unopened wine in it. This was a score for us because we were bored and wanted to do some partying. We took them and drank them over the next few days in a travel trailer we hung out in on our property. We put the empty bottles on a shelf as a souvenir. Our mom sees them one day, and we told her we found them empty on an old property. She says it's too bad they were empty or they would be worth some money. We asked why, and she points to the 1940 date on the label of every bottle and says they're old, so their worth money. We thought that was the date the wine company was established, which is what we told her. She said it was the date the wine was made. Just for fun, she looked it up, and every bottle was worth between $800-$1300 full. She said it must have been a wine collector's cabin. She goes back in the house, and my brother and I looked at each other, shaking our heads in disbelief. We still talk about that.

Sheer heaven. What a collection. Cheers🍷🥂

Wow, what a collection... I wish I could taste one of those bottles.

Ik kan de kurken in die flessen niet eens betalen, maar wat een genot om naar te kijken! Ook een erg innemende man. Moet toch fantastisch zijn om daar tussen die rekken gewoon een stukje geschiedenis open te maken.

아주 맛있는 와인인것 갇습니다~~😊😊😊

Good for him!!! ❤❤❤

Wonderful! Passionate man and great wines...funny note, at 2min37sec I see two bottles of Château de la Commanderie, Lalande Pomerol 1967. This wine is often dismissed as wine for wine connoisseurs who don't actually know anything about wine. In our parts, a common wine in ordinary restaurants or bistros. Many regard the wine as a Pomerol since it has the word Pomerol on it but it remains a Lalande Pomerol that is beautifully made in its own style and often underappreciated. Not a biggie but value for money if the wine list is limited. I do wonder now if these '67s still age nicely given their age. Anyone experience with this wine around that age as it is often said that this Commanderie is not a storage wine?

I would do the same because there are some fantastic du papes, however I’m an alcoholic so I have a watch collection instead.

Wow!

I wish I was locked in that cellar!

Now I'm thirsty.

To each his own. You call it collecting, but I call it hoarding at these quantities for those lengths of time. The time to "drink and be merry" is now. Tomorrow is not promised.

All I need is one day and one Durand. Please.

My boy better get to drinking...

I wonder if this cellar is climatic controlled😳..or is he simply storing the wine in the basement of his house?

He seems sophisticated, but imagine the regret of not splurging on fresh wine. No more of that old stuff. Wine from this year!

I suspect that most of those bottles are way past their prime, and should have been consumed a long time ago.