Domaine de la Romanée-Conti from 1945 sold for $812,500, breaking a record at a wine auction
A bottle of French wine from the personal collection of a revered winemaker recently broke the record. For the most expensive bottle ever sold at auction. Fetching $812,500, New York wine dealer Acker announced Monday.
The bottle, a 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, is one of approximately 600 ever produced and is a highly coveted collector’s item among connoisseurs of historic wines.
The previous world record for a bottle of the same wine sold at auction was held by a 2018 bottle of the same wine, which sold for $558,000. This represents an increase of nearly 50% and “cements the 1945 vintage. As the most coveted bottle in the history of wine collecting,” Acker said in a statement.
The eight vineyards that make up the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti estate in Burgundy, France, are named for the most well-known of them, Romanée-Conti. This vineyard only produces red wine, mostly from Pinot Noir grapes, and its wines are among the priciest and most sought-after in the world.
Only roughly 600 of the 5,000–6,000 bottles of wine that Romanée-Conti makes each year come from the 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti vintage.
