Mount Mary Quintet Cabernets at auction
Mount Mary Quintet background - brief

One of Australia’s legendary cult wines, the Quintet Cabernets is based on classic Bordeaux blends of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, with the final blends changing each season.

First created and produced in the mid-seventies, by self taught winemaker, the late Dr John Middleton, for friends and family. The circle of friends continued to grow each season and has now become an iconic and rare, small volume wine highly sought after by Australian fine wine lovers, some of whom sum up the Quintet experience as “..hauntingly beautiful wines that never disappoint.” .

What are mature vintages of Mnt Mary Quintet drinking like?

Earlier vintages such as the 1990 have been drinking well for many years and will likely continue to drink very, very well for a decade or so more. A recent vertical wine tasting in November 2011 shows that Mount Mary Quintet continues to yield a consistent quality and style over the decades.

Recent auction prices paid

• 2003 Mount Mary Quintet 750ml; hammer price of $90 each
• 2004 Mount Mary Quintet 750ml; hammer price of $90 each
• 2005 Mount Mary Quintet 750ml; hammer price of $99 each
• 2006 Mount Mary Quintet Magnum; hammer price of $250 each
• 2008 Mount Mary Quintet 750ml; hammer price of $77 each

Auction dates were early 2013 at Wickman's Fine Wine Auctions. These prices do not include any commissions. The wines that were sold were verified for quality and provenance.

Auction results and price guide for Mount Mary Quintet.

What was in our wine auctions (March 2013)

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Around the blogs with Mount Mary Quintet

We believe that wine blogs are a fantastic source of trusted information that can be used to guide you towards fantastic bargains and forgotten treasures. We are, slowly, building a list of recommended wine blogs from around the world. The blogs mentioned below are just some of the ones we have found online with tasting notes of Mount Mary Quintet and we may not have had time to review all of these blogs as yet, but will eventually.

• 2010, 2005 and 2005 Mount Mary Quintet by Andrew Graham
• 2010 Mount Mary Quintet and a vertical tasting of 2005 to 2008 by Kenneth
• 2000 Mount Mary Quintet by the Grape Observer
• 1990 Mount Mary Quintet by alontin

Historical and estimated wine auction prices

Valid November 2024

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Values have been aggregated from national secondary market data.

Notes on pricing and valuation

Low Range
Typically, price clusters form over time at market value. The low value is then calculated from the average accumulated hammer price at auction from multiple Australian wine auction houses over a 6 month period. All prices are for bottles with no damage or ullage. Well stored bottles with a documented purchase and storage history will always attract the best prices.

High Range
High prices are typically outliers or record high values achieved over a long period of time and,typically, includes only a very low sample of bottles sold, never the average and most often only a single bottle.

Last sale
This figure is not shown, as using it in isolation can produce a false sense of the true value of a bottle.

A note on auction reserves
All auction houses generally set a reserve price 10% less than the low price range. This allows for fluctuations of the market price going down as well as up.

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Author: Mark Wickman
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