A legendary add the Romanée Conti Romanée Romanée the Top 5 of the VI most quoted the global vineyard, in which there are legendary harvests, world prestige brands and even some bottle that could not get off.
Establishing a ranking of the most expensive wines in the world is a task as complex as it is refatible, since a reader can always appear that ensures a bottle that you climb for a higher price than those we mentioned. In any case, all wines that are reviewed in an article published in Expansion.com, have reached this price for weight reasons: quality, prestige of the brand, exceptionality of the brand and shortage in production.
1- Romanée Conti 1945 – 558,000
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In a famous auction that took place in Sotheby’s in New York, in 2018, two bottles of wine for more than one million dollars were sold in just a few minutes. Both wore the Romanée Conti Domaine label and were from the 1945 vintage, coinciding with the end of World War II and the last one before the replantation of the mythical Burgundy vineyard, of just over one hectare, in Vosne Romanée. Both The first bottle was sold for a record price of $ 558,000, a final price 17 times higher than the initial estimate of $ 32,000 of the auction house. A few minutes later, another bottle of Romané-Conti of 1945 was sold for $ 496,000, in the same session.
2- Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 1992 – 500,000 dollars
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In a charity auction carried out in 2000, this Californian red wine reached the record of half a million dollars, exceeding the price of any historical Châteaux Bordelés.
3- Château Mouton-Rothschild 1945 Jeroboam- 310,000
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Blessed with 100 Parker points, it comes from one of the best vintages they remember in Bordeaux in the last hundred years. On the other hand, the label indicates that the victory of the Allied forces in World War II is celebrated in this Millemimé. The price is justified because the bottle is also in Jeroboam format, three -liter (equivalent to 2 magnum). In 75 CL format, this same wine from the same vintage can be bought in Spain for 11,500 euros.
4- Cheval White Imperial 1947 – 305,000 dollars
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In 2010, in the Christie’s auction room of the Swiss city of Geneva, an anonymous buyer took a bottle in imperial format (six liters) of Cheval Blanc 1947, presented as “the best wine of Bordeaux ever made” for an amount close to 225,000 euros, which at that time represented about $ 305,000. A milestone for the Saint-Emilion red, which in 2012 reached the category of Premier Grand Cru Class (A).
5- Charles Heidsieck Shipwrecked 1907 – $ 275,000
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Nicolás II, last Tsar of Russia and a good champagne fan, in 1916 was in charge of this excellent champagne to the Maison Charles Heidsieck. But the cargo never reached the destination, since the ship that transported it was sunk by a German submarine during World War I, its remains being found, including a bottle of the game, in 1997. In a subsequent auction, the bottle of this singular champagne – obvious of the shipwreck – was sold for $ 275,000.
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