Park B. Smith wine fetches $5 million for college

By Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 12/13/2006 12:17:00 PM

New York– The auction last month of wine from the Park B. Smith Collection at Sotheby’s totaled $5,328,833. 

The wine, a small part of Smith’s collection, was auctioned to benefit his alma mater, The College of the Holy Cross. 

Included in the collection were 50 cases of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1982 that sold for $1,051,600, according to Sotheby’s Jamie Ritchie.