A 300-bottle collection of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, spanning every year from 1981 to 2005, fetched HK$4.2 million ($539,291) at the start of a two-day Hong Kong auction. The price, including fees, made it the most expensive single lot of wine auctioned this year, London-based auction house Christie’s International said. The 25 cases of the Bordeaux first-growth, said to have been kept in pristine condition, sold to an absentee bidder last night, without a hand raised in the silent room.