Bonhams has announced the sale of the Olympus Cellar, a single-owner wine collection of more than 40,000 bottles put together over half a century, in what the house describes as one of the largest private cellars ever brought to auction. The series will open in Hong Kong with a live evening sale, titled The Gods, at 5pm on 20 November 2026, and continue through 2027.

The opening sale will offer more than 400 lots with a combined estimate above HK$24 million, about US$3 million. Its headline lot is a 1999 assortment case from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, estimated at HK$500,000 to HK$700,000. The catalogue also includes a three-litre bottle of Château La Mission Haut-Brion 1955, a wine not seen at auction since 2013, alongside Pétrus 1961, Lafite Rothschild 1959 and 1982, and large-format Burgundy from Domaine Leroy, Domaine d'Auvenay and Henri Jayer.

Champagne is the collection's defining strength. More than 7,000 bottles come from the region's most revered houses, including Krug, Dom Pérignon, Salon and Jacques Selosse, many of them bought early and stored ever since in a climate-controlled facility. Bonhams calls it one of the most comprehensive private Champagne cellars in existence today, with nearly 50 lots of Krug alone in the first sale.

The collector began in the 1970s after a 1916 Pommard from Château de Pommard sparked a lifelong pursuit, and built the cellar around a single principle: provenance above all. Terrence Tang, Bonhams' head of wine and spirits in Asia, said the collection speaks directly to collectors in the region, where condition and rarity matter most, and that Hong Kong was the natural place to launch the series.