Defeated chief executive candidate Henry Tang Ying-yen will sell thousands of bottles of wine at an upcoming auction as he culls his vast collection, according to a media report on Tuesday.
Tang, also well known as a wine collector, was quoted by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday as saying the sale was part of a much-needed culling that he could not find time to do until recently.
The former chief secretary, Hong Kong’s second highest official, has largely moved away from politics after losing the chief executive election last March.
The thousands of bottles of Burgundy to be sold were “only a very small portion of my vast collection of wine”, Tang was quoted as saying.
The whole of it, housed in cellars around the world, could not be consumed over “multiple lifetimes”, he said.
According to information posted by Christie’s on its website, the auction, entitled The Henry Tang Collection, has been scheduled to be held for two-days, on March 15 and 16.