A rare collection of wine once belonging to Russian Tsar Nicolas II has gone under the hammer at International auction house Bonhams. The wine comes from the Massandra winery in Crimea which was built in 1897 primarily to produce high quality wine for the Tsar and his family. The Romanov's spent summers at their Palace `Lavadia' near Yalta. Now the auctioneers Bonhams sold a number of bottles from the collection which were once stored in specially built tunnels under the Crimean mountains. Reuters' Hayley Platt reports. Featured Speakers:
Richard Harvey, European Head of wine, Bonhams Sergey Foster, Representative for Massandra Winery in the UK
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December 2007 
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