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The Collection of Ian Mill QC October 26, 2019 at 9AM ESTLots 1–1308

Le Bernardin Privé153 W 51st St, New York, NY 10019 Sale 1910N322

Official Champagne Sponsor

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Contents

Contacts For This Auction 4

Introduction 8

Lots 1–1308 18

Buying & Bidding Information 261

Conditions of Sale 263

General Catalog Notes 265

Collection & Delivery Form 268

Bidder Pre-Registration Form 269

Absentee Bid Form 270

Index By Region & Producer 272

Bottle photography:Nadine Dix

Portrait photography:Joakim Blockstrom joakim@joakimblockstrom.com

Designed byKristen HuttonConnor Michalek

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NEW YORK39 Westmoreland Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606

1.914.448.3026 • 1.914.313.2350 fax • auction@zachys.com

HONG KONGUnit A&B, 3/F, Tern Centre Tower II, No. 251 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

+852.2530.1971 • +852.3014.3838 fax • asia@zachys.com

施氏亞洲香港: 如欲以中文查詢Zachys拍賣會事宜，請聯絡 +852.2530.1971 或電郵至 asia@zachys.com。

Fritz HattonAdvisor, Principal Auctioneer

Austin ZhangSales Director, China

Jamie Pollack Global Managing Director

Charles Antin Senior International Specialist, New York

Jeff ZachariaPresident

Christy Erickson Head of Europe, Paris

Don ZachariaCEO

Terrence Tang Head of Asia, Hong Kong

ZACHYS NEW YORKAuctioneersFritz Hatton (#1123249) Jamie Pollack (#1408627) Jeff Zacharia (#1285129) Charles Antin (#1406288)

ConsultantGeoffrey Troy Senior Advisor

Consignor PaymentCindy Bennett

Bids, Customer Service & Buyer PaymentJodi Greco Customer Service ManagerDanielle Castaldo Bid ManagerRenée Henriques Daniella Hernandez Keody Ureña

LogisticsKatie Jacobs Special Operations ManagerDwayne Rennalls Logistics CoordinatorJomone Thorne Logistics AdministratorNeil Maxwell Special Operations

Auction WarehouseTrevor McLawrence Warehouse Supervisor

Operations Alicia Martell Director of Operations

Senior Wine SpecialistsShoshana Filene Business Development ManagerStu Jakub Senior Account ManagerMichael Moser PricingDave Sutro Catalog Editor-in-ChiefJosephine Young Property

Wine SpecialistsJulia Banks Property & zCollections ManagerKimberly Busch PricingAlberto Soriano Property Manager

Junior Wine Specialist & Wine Specialist AssistantsChristine Armold Catalog Production AssistantJonathan Bornstein Catalog Production AssistantBayron Carter Catalog Production AssistantAmelia Krusell Catalog Production Assistant Amanda Opromolla Sales Coordinator Cole Rockwell Marketing CoordinatorDennies Krecko PropertyEmily Rosenberg Property & Junior Wine Specialist

Creative Services Kristen Hutton Connor Michalek

Consultants Elliot Faber Senior Whisky AdvisorJunko Watanabe Japan

Wine SpecialistsChing Wong Private Accounts ManagerSimon Choi Wine SpecialistRaymond Lai Property Manager Dora Kam Wine SpecialistAlex Kong Wine SpecialistNathan Ung Sales Coordinator

Operations Alvin Sham Operations Manager

Customer ServiceMaggie Ma Operations SupervisorIvy Chan Administrator & Customer ServiceElaine Chui Logistics Solution SpecialistNicole So Office Administration Assistant

Marketing & Public RelationsSydney Corliss Marketing & Events Manager

ZACHYS ASIA

ZACHYS EUROPEConsultantsEdouard Berry Wine SpecialistPeter Mansell Marie Martel Specialist Assistant & LogisticsTotte Steneby

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Zachys is excited to announce The Collection

of Ian Mill QC on October 26, 2019 taking

place at Le Bernardin Privé! Zachys is thrilled

to pair with three-Michelin starred chef, Eric

Ripert, to host this highly anticipated auction.

OCTOBER 26, 20199:00am Auction begins 12:00pm Lunch is served

Le Bernardin Privé 153 West 51st Street New York City

(between 6th & 7th Avenues above Aldo Sohm Wine Bar)

Auction lunch is for registered auction bidders

only; advance reservations are required.

Complimentary lunch for registered bidders.

For reservations and pre-registration contact

914-448-3026 or auction@zachys.com

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Zachys is pleased to feature our new dinner series

Raiding the Reserve Cellar.

These bespoke dinners will provide guests with rare opportunities

to indulge in comparative tastings of the greatest wines ever made.

From a DRC Richebourg vertical to a Château Latour vertical going back

to the 1911 vintage, complete with President Frédéric Engerer in attendance.

These dinners are always highly sought-after and very exclusive. We limit each

dinner to 14 guests, so everyone can fully experience the wines.

Please stay tuned for information on our fall lineup, which will be

posted on our Zachys tasting page.

Alternatively, you can contact your hostShoshana Filene for information

(sfilene@zachys.com).

Raiding the Reserve Cellar

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A Note of Thanks from Zachys Wine Auctions

The team at Zachys Wine Auctions would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the incredible teams and individuals who helped make this monumental sale possible. To the entire team at Berry Brothers & Rudd, who worked tirelessly to help us prepare, inspect and photograph every bottle in this collec-tion. And most importantly, for preserving Ian’s collection with such impeccable care and custody over the decades, instilling the utmost confidence in the conditions and provenance of the wines we are able to present today. To Susie de Paolis, who has served as Ian’s personal cellarmaster and one of his most trusted advisors over the years. Thank you for your immense dedication to this sale, and the hundreds of hours you spent preparing for it with us. We couldn’t have done it without you. And finally, to Xavier Rousset MS, whose knowledge, passion and dedication to Ian, Cabotte, and the world of wine has brought both color and life to this auction and this catalogue.

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THE COLLECTION OF

It is with immense and profound pleasure that we present to you the Private Collection

of Ian Mill QC.

What lies in front of you is one of the most important collections of fine wine, and par-

ticularly fine Burgundy, that has come to market in the past decade. One could even say

century. On a recent evening, we sat down with Ian to understand a bit more about the

man himself, what drives him and his passion for collecting, and about the genesis of

this auction. In addition to being deeply knowledgeable about wine, Ian is a raconteur,

and takes obvious pleasure in walking down memory lane, especially when it comes to

wine. We’ve peppered this catalog with some of his most memorable anecdotes—stories

dripping with charm, not a few of which made us wish we’d been there.

This story begins in February, 1985, at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, the two-Michelin-

starred restaurant in Oxford, known as a training ground for some of the most famous

chefs in the world. The wine uncorked that day was a 1982 Bâtard-Montrachet from

Domaine Leflaive—“an extraordinary experience,” in Ian’s own words. As the bottle was

slowly consumed, Ian had a realization: his life was taking a turn. When he walked into

the restaurant, “wine was just wine.” But when he emerged, a fuse was lit. This fuse trig-

gered a lifelong passion for collecting and learning about wine, with a focus on Burgundy.

Ian began as most wine lovers do (albeit with a particular doggedness perhaps reflective

of his position as one of the UK’s leading barristers for the last 35 years). He began to

interrogate (his word—that’s the barrister shining through) sommeliers, read voraciously,

and frequent a little shop in Pimlico that happened to be owned by a genial chap and

weekly cricket opponent by the name of Jasper Morris MW. Jasper suggested wines that

would further Ian’s education—mostly Burgundy, but also wines from around the world.

During this stage, Ian bought wine to drink. That changed in the early 1990s, when Ian

became a shareholder at Morris & Verdin, Jasper’s Burgundy-focused merchant.

Ian Mill with business partner, Xavier Rousset, MS

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Thus begins the second chapter in this story: Ian joins the wine trade. He started

buying Burgundy in quantity, visiting the region, and tasting with producers

there. At this point, and for the next decade, Ian’s wine education went into top

gear. He forged personal relationships with producers the world over—many

of whom are represented by lots in this auction. But in 2003, Jasper decided

to sell Morris & Verdin to Berry Bros. & Rudd—to the chagrin of Ian, who was

at the time the largest non-executive shareholder of the company. Memories of

those days are etched in Ian’s mind, and reminisced about fondly. The annual

shareholders’ meeting was in reality a wine dinner at which Abigail, Jasper’s

wife, would cook a feast. Ian remembers Dominique Lafon literally swinging

from the rafters at a wine dinner, with Ian looking on, confident he was about to

witness the demise of one of Burgundy’s greatest talents. To give you an idea of

how heady these bacchanals were: Ian also remembers a particular evening at

which Jasper Morris stood up to announce that he had just had his 100th glass

of wine that evening!

Ian’s perception of BBR up until this point was that they were—again, his

words—“very boring.” But after their acquisition of Verdin & Morris (the “best

decision they’ve made in 300 years”) they went from boring to having one of

the best selections of wine in all of the United Kingdom. So much so that, for a

moment, Ian became interested in Bordeaux—and surprised himself!

Ian’s ownership stake in Morris & Verdin, and his subsequent relationship with

BBR brings us to the sourcing and storage of the wines in this offering. Zachys

sent a large team of Wine Specialists to Berry Bros. & Rudd to inspect, catalog

and photograph this wine in situ in their wine warehouse in Basingstoke. The vast

majority of the wines in this offering were purchased en primeur from UK wine

merchants. Ian noted that he’s a stickler for provenance, appearance, and general

quality, and since he has long term relationships with the merchants, they know

not to even offer him anything less than perfect. On occasion, Ian would buy

from a major London-based auction house—but when he did, he would subject

the specialist team again to an “interrogation” on the provenance of the collec-

tion he was to bid on. As Ian himself said, “there’s a reason I’m willing to put

my name on this auction catalog. I’m immensely confident in this collection.”Ian Mill with wine portfolio manager, Susie De Paolis

Ian Mill with wine portfolio manager, Susie De Paolis, and business partner, Xavier Rousset, MS

The next chapter begins when Ian became a restaurateur. He got to know Master Sommelier Xavier Rousset through the 28˚-50˚ wine-focused

restaurant empire he owned in Mayfair. Xavier wanted to start a restaurant that focused on Burgundy, and asked Ian to get involved—along with

other shareholders including some Burgundian producers themselves, which was an intriguing proposition. Now, Cabotte, from which this catalog

draws its inspiration, color and creative scheme, has been in business for three years, and it has experienced phenomenal success with accolade

after accolade as one of the greatest wine lists and restaurants in the world.

Which bring us to this auction—not the last chapter, but the first chapter in an entirely new book.

Ian is planning on retiring in the near future from his lifelong career as a renowned commercial Queen’s Counsel (a trial lawyer, in “American

English”) and has decided to open a version of Cabotte in Healdsburg, California—a spot that he and his wife, Beth (British, but raised in the Bay

Area), chose on a visit five years ago. The restaurant will feature elements of Ian’s Burgundy collection (don’t worry, he isn’t selling it all) alongside

the Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays of California, with the opportunity for diners to compare and contrast, bringing his passion for Burgundy and

California into a perfect assemblage.

This auction is of many of the most valuable aspects of the reputed Ian Mill Collection, as Ian himself prepares to move to California with his family

and dive into the new book. We are immensely honored and delighted to be a footnote in a narrative that is surely one of the most compelling

wine-collecting stories ever written. We hope you will enjoy spending time in this catalogue, and fortunate enough to acquire some of the rare

treasures from the immaculate cellar of one of Burgundy’s greatest aficionados.

Sincerely,

Jeff Zacharia & Christy Erickson

Ian Mill is one of the world’s most astute collectors, with a fine nose for quality across the regions and classifications. It has been my pleasure to provide him with a good many items in his cellar over the last 4 decades, especially the wines of Burgundy in both colours, and my good fortune to share in drinking a good proportion of them with him.”

– JASPER MORRIS MW

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TABLE OF

CONTENTS

CHAMPAGNE LOTS 1-137

BORDEAUX LOTS 138-145

RED BURGUNDY LOTS 146-736

WHITE BURGUNDY& CHABLIS LOTS 737-1053

RHÔNE VALLEY LOTS 1054-1111

ALSACE LOTS 1112-1123

GERMANY LOTS 1124-1153

ITALY LOTS 1154-1243

SPAIN LOTS 1244-1276

PORT & MADEIRA LOTS 1277-1285

CALIFORNIA LOTS 1286-1308