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Apr 18, 2024 · No. 6: Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1943, Sold for $68,200. This was one of many rare bottles of DRC that were auctioned by Sotheby’s in 2018, including the most expensive bottle ever sold. But this not-quite-as-expensive bottle still turned heads when someone paid more than $68,000 for the 1943 DRC RC. Age: 75 years.
May 2, 2024 · To be included in the list, a wine must have at least 5 offers spanning at least four vintages (two of which must have been in the last 10 years). Wine styles that are not typically released on a year-by-year basis are excluded from this rule - this includes Champagne, Madeira, Port, Vin Santo, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese and Eiswein.
PositionWine NameAvg. Price (usd)Max. Price (usd)1$51,735$182,1052$25,405$68,3683$24,098$246,3324$22,584$35,683- Domaine Leroy Musigny Grand Cru, Côte de Nuits, France. Type: Pinot Noir. Average price: $43,876. Max price: $102,141.
- Leroy Domaine d’Auvenay Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru, Côte de Beaune, France. Type: Chardonnay. Average price: $31,697. Max price: $70,264.
- Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-Conti Grand Cru, Côte de Nuits, France. Type: Pinot Noir. Average price: $25,668. Max price: $105,265.
- Domaine Georges & Christophe Roumier Musigny Grand Cru, Côte de Nuits, France. Type: Pinot Noir. Average price: $19,747. Max price: $35,906.
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Price Realized: $558,000 Year Sold:2018 What Drove the Price: In 1945, only 600 bottles of this world-famous wine were produced. This was also the last year grapes were harvested from the winery’s older vines before younger ones were planted in their place. Sometimes referred to simply as DRC, Domaine de la Romanée-Contiis one of Burgundy, France’s...
Price Realized: $500,000 Year Sold: 2000 What Drove the Price:The Napa winery’s inaugural vintage was in 1992. Sold for $500,000 at the 2000 Auction Napa Valley, thisrecord breaking Screaming Eagle Winerysale happened to take place in the winery’s backyard, rather than at a European or New York-based auction house. Also of note—the wine was only ei...
Price Realized: $310,000 Year Sold: 2006 What Drove the Price:Bordeaux’s later-than-normal frost in early May of 1945 reduced the vintage to its smallest since 1915; grapes were very ripe, too, with alcohol content as high as 15 percent. Each bottle ofChâteauMouton-Rothschild’s 1945 vintage features an illustrated “V” for victory, signifying the en...
Price Realized:$304,375 Year Sold:2010 What Drove the Price:The 1947 is believed to be one of the winery’s two greatest vintages (the other is 1921). Snug in Bordeaux’s Saint-Émilion appellation, ChâteauCheval Blanchas been making wines since 1832. At a Christie’s auction in 2010, the winning bid for this imperial-size bottle (equivalent to eight 7...
Price Realized:$275,000 Year Sold:uncertain What Drove the Price:Virtually untouched after a 1916 ship wreck off the coast of Finland, en route to the Imperial Court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, 200 bottles of this wine were discovered by divers during the late 1990s (the 2,000-bottle lot also included other wines). Now dubbed “Shipwreck Champagn...
Price Realized:$232,682 Year Sold: 2010 What Drove the Price: Two firsts: the first vintage bottled at Lafite and the first vintage under Baron James de Rothschild’s ownership. At a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong in 2010, three bottles of this wine fromChâteauLafite Rothschildin Bordeaux, France, were sold for $232,682 a piece, marking the world’s ...
Price Realized:$225,000 Year Sold: 1980s What Drove the Price: Thought to have been owned by Thomas Jefferson due to his etched initials on the bottle’s glass. Chateau Margaux is also one of only four wineries in Bordeaux granted first-growth status in the 1855 Classification. Even newer vintages command high prices at auction, although certainly n...
Price Realized:$168,000 Year Sold:2012 What Drove the Price:It’s packaged within a hand-blown glass ampoule inside a wooden cabinet and there are only a dozen bottles. Although not sold at auction, the $168,000 retail price of the 2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon is memorable. Penfolds, a winery in Australia’s Barossa Valley, commissioned 1...
Price Realized: $156,450 Year Sold: 1985 What Drove the Price: Like the 1787 Château Margaux, this wine was thought to have beenowned by Thomas Jefferson, as indicated by his initials etched on the bottle’s glass. ChâteauLafitein Bordeaux—owned by the Rothschild family since the 19thCentury—was reportedly one of Jefferson’s favorite wines and he ow...
Aug 31, 2022 · The three Domaine d'Auvenay wines on the list – all Chardonnays – had average retail price increases of 51, 93 and 92 percent respectively. By comparison, the Leroy Chambertin saw a rise of 31 percent, while the Musigny on top of the list jumped by 15 percent. Let's put those in perspective, though.
For the Leroy Musigny, 2015 was the annus mirabilis, and the average price for a bottle of the 2015 vintage is $126,000, up from $79,687 a year ago. The top offer for a bottle of the 2015 is just north of $132,000. For its old rival DRC, the story is very different. Looking at the most expensive offers for DRC, there is much less uniformity ...
