1,200 bottles of vintage wine from the cellars of the Elysee are being sent for auction in Paris, at the Drouot auction house. All the wines are French of course and are Bordeaux or Burgundy's . The auction will take place on the 30th and 31st of May. Many of the bottles are ready to be drunk immediately and the overall sum that the wine is expected to achieve is 250,000 euros, all for the state coffers. Organisers say some bottles of Petrus 1990 may fetch 2,200 euros a bottle but there will be more modest wines on sale. Some of the buyers are expected to be affluent Chinese, who are the biggest importers of Bordeaux wines.
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