A Hong Kong wine auction has raised over £6 million through sales of rare Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne.

The Christie's sale tops off what has been the auction house's best-ever year for fine and rare wines in the region, Decanter reports.

Star lots included a large number of 1982 First Growth Bordeaux, vintages from Domaine de la Romanee Conti and 12 bottles of 1961 Chateau Palmer direct from Bordeaux.

A superlot of 144 bottles of Krug from the 1980s and 1990s was also sold, with 90 per cent of the 600 lots going for 96 per cent of their value.

"The sale demonstrated the continued strength of the great first growth Bordeaux and indicated a new interest in large-format bottles and in older vintages," Christie's head of wine sales for Asia Charles Curtis told the publication.

Fund manager Anthony Eaton of the JM Finn Global Opportunities Fund recently told Hargreaves Lansdown that at the moment wine traders are looking principally at the Asian market when dealing with Bordeaux.