This Is The World's Roughly Expensive Bottle Of Wine

From Food & Wine:

A 1945 Burgundy smashed the tape at a Sotheby's auction. 

Whiskey has been grabbing enough of headlines for its record-breaking auctions equally of late. From million dollars bottles of The Macallan Scotch to a 50-year-old Yamazaki that managed to suspension the Japanese whiskey record past times selling for close a 3rd of that price, the collectors’ marketplace position has been paying a premium for coveted bottles. But it turns out it isn't simply chocolate-brown spirits having all the fun. Over the weekend, a Sotheby’s auction inward New York laid upwards a novel tape for the most expensive vino always sold.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti, a ruddy Burgundy from Cote de Nuits, sold for an astounding $558,000. Though Romanee-Conti is a renowned producer to this day, this detail vino is specially coveted because reportedly only 600 bottles were produced inward 1945, together with the vines were removed together with replanted later on this vintage. “Rare together with wonderful,” Serena Sutcliffe, caput of Sotheby’s international vino department, wrote on the auction site. “The best bottles are together with then concentrated together with exotic, amongst seemingly everlasting power—a vino at peace amongst itself.”

If half-a-million dollars for a bottle of vino seems surprising, you’re non alone. Sotheby’s presale approximate for the vino set the elevation of the arrive at at $32,000. The vino sold for 17 times that amount. And the move wasn’t over: Later, a 2nd bottle from the same vintage sold for $496,000. Both bottles easily broke the tape for the most expensive standard-sized bottle of vino always sold—a championship previously held past times a bottle from Chateau Lafite Rothschild sold for $233,000 inward 2010 inward Hong Kong....MORE

Previously on the large buck booze beat:
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