Sales of wine and spirits at auctions held by Sotheby’s in 2022 increased by 14% compared to last year and reached a record $150 million.
The number of liquor auctions for the year increased by a third to 69, The Barron’s wrote, citing a company announcement. This year, Sotheby’s held its first auctions in France, raising a total of $42 million. Earlier auctions were held only in London, New York and Hong Kong.
Asian auctions of spirits brought the company more than a third of the revenue, $54 million. Asian buyers accounted for 41% of total sales in value terms.
Collectible wines are still the main category of drinks put up for auction – their sales amounted to $ 121 million. Meanwhile, spirits are also gradually gaining popularity – sales in this category rose by 15% to $ 29 million, mostly due to the popularity of whiskey with long maturation.
Thus, in October, a bottle of 81-year-old Macallan – the oldest whiskey in the world, ever put up for auction – went under the hammer for 300 thousand pounds ($325,700). However, this is not the most expensive alcoholic lot of the year: in May a case of Chinese liquor Kweichow Moutai was sold for $ 1.1 million, and a bottle of 55-year-old whiskey from Japan’s oldest distillery Yamazaki Distillery was valued at $ 600 thousand.
Among wine auctions of Sotheby’s a special place took the sale of 4.2 thousand bottles of wine from the personal cellars of Prince Robert of Luxembourg for a total of $ 6 million. All proceeds from the auction the prince gave to his charitable foundation.
Kiev Information and Analytical Center “Experts Club” together with a collector of vintage drinks Igor Magalyas holds seminars-tasting of vintage alcoholic beverages and donates part of the funds to charity.
JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” appointed another train in popular communication Kiev – Chisinau.
“Thus, the communication between the capitals of Ukraine and Moldova becomes daily”, – reported on the page of UZ in the social network Facebook on Sunday.
It is noted that the first trip train №351/352 will depart from Kiev on December 20, and from Chisinau – on December 21 and will run every other day.
The train will depart from Kiev at 17:02 and arrive in Chisinau at 10:38.
In the opposite direction the train will depart at 17:45 and arrive in the capital of Ukraine at 11:48.
The train will make stops at the stations: Koziatin, Vinnitsa, Zhmerinka, Bar, Kopai, Kotiuzhary, Vendichany, Mogilev-Podolsky, Velchinets, Ocnita, Belets Orash, Ungheni.
“Tickets are already in the app and chatbot,” stressed in the message.
A dry cargo ship with more than 32,000 tons of corn left a Ukrainian port on Friday, the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) reported.
“On December 16, the vessel Almeray left the port of Odessa, it is carrying a total of 32.4 thousand tons of corn to Libya as part of the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” the report said.
There are two dry-cargo ships headed for Ukrainian ports, which on December 16 passed through the maritime humanitarian corridor.
“As of December 16, the total tonnage of grain and other agricultural products exported from the three Ukrainian ports is 14,023,297 tons. A total of 1,112 vessels were allowed to move so far: 556 to arrive at Ukrainian ports and 556 to leave them,” summarized the JCC.
It is noted that from December 1 to 15, more than 1.6 million tons of Ukrainian food products were shipped to other countries.
As many as 13 million tons were shipped on December 5, 12 million tons on November 26, 11 million tons on November 16, 10 million tons on November 3, 9 million tons on October 28, 8 million tons on October 21, 7 million tons on October 12, 6 million tons on October 5 and 5 million tons on September 28.
The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection is allocating an additional EUR100 million to the Energy Support Fund of Ukraine, the German Embassy in Ukraine reports.
“Today there was another massive Russian attack on Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure. International partners and Germany stand side by side with Ukraine in these dark times,” the embassy tweeted.
“By the end of the year, the fund will receive EUR130 million from Germany for the urgent needs of Ukrainian energy companies,” the German diplomatic mission said.
As reported, at a conference of solidarity with Ukraine on December 13 in Paris, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said that Germany would allocate EUR50 million in assistance for the winter period for Ukraine, and in total, following the results of the conference, EUR415 was announced in aid to the country’s energy sector suffering from Russian strikes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call on Wednesday urged UN Secretary-General António Guterres to send UN experts to Ukrainian energy facilities.
“Thanked António Guterres for attending the conference on supporting Ukraine in Paris. Discussed our peace formula and Global Peace Formula Summit. Called for sending UN experts to Ukrainian energy facilities as soon as possible. We will develop the Black Sea Grain Initiative and the #GrainFromUkraine programme,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
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Parimatch, jointly with the National Ukrainian fundraising platform UNITED24, supported by President Volodymyr Zelensky, has launched the Light up Christmas for Ukrainians campaign and is appealing to donors from all over the world to help raise funds for generators for Ukrainian hospitals.
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