The highest price for a single lot was R60 000, paid by Hanneli-Rupert Koegelenberg for an imperial bottle of Chateau Lagrange 1986, donated by Mark Norrish. Interestingly, this item first featured on the Charity Auction in 2000. It was donated by the guest speaker that year, Mr Shin Torii, president of Suntory, Japan, and purchased by Mark Norrish for R10 000.
The Koegelenbergs also bought three other items, including a rare bottle of Chateaux Margaux 1959, donated by Duimpie Bayly on behalf of The Tabernacle at Distell, a bottle of Chateau Latour 1986, donated by this year's auctioneer Anthony Barne, and a bottle of Madeira 1840 "The Rebel", the oldest item on the auction that was donated by veteran Patrick Grubb, the original auctioneer at Nederburg.
Ray Edwards from Spar snapped up a 2007 single-vineyard Shiraz from Nederburg, labelled Tribute and donated by Nederburg cellarmaster Razvan Macici, for R17 000. This is the second of three sets that were specifically released for the auction, each comprising eight bottles, ranging in size from the standard 750 ml to the 18 litre Melchior. The first of three sets debuted on the 2009 Charity Auction and included a magnum, double magnum, Jereboam, Rehoboam, imperial, Methuselah, Balthazar and more, to make up 65,25 litres in all. Every bottle within the set has been individually boxed. The remaining set will be auctioned in 2011.
Over the past twenty years, the charity auction has raised more than R3 million for its beneficiaries, which included the Hospice Palliative Care Association, the Organ Donor Foundation and mothers2mothers (m2m).
