Bottle of French Burgundy Wine Sells for a Record-Breaking Price
- 6 years ago
Bottle of French Burgundy Wine Sells for a Record-Breaking Price The 73-year-old wine is the most
expensive bottle ever sold at
auction,fetching $558,000. The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby's for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000. Romanee-Conti has become the king of collectible wines, and the 1945 is considered its most prized vintage. Romanee-Conti only produced
600 bottles in 1945. This was the last year before the producer replaced the older,
prized vines in 1947. Sotheby's described the 1945 vintage as "concentrated and exotic, with seemingly everlasting power — a wine at peace with itself."
expensive bottle ever sold at
auction,fetching $558,000. The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby's for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000. Romanee-Conti has become the king of collectible wines, and the 1945 is considered its most prized vintage. Romanee-Conti only produced
600 bottles in 1945. This was the last year before the producer replaced the older,
prized vines in 1947. Sotheby's described the 1945 vintage as "concentrated and exotic, with seemingly everlasting power — a wine at peace with itself."