This 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Is World’s Most Expensive Wine


1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Acker

This ultra-coveted wine just popped a previous auction record.

A bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti just hammered down for $812,500 at Aker’s annual La Paulée auction in New York City this weekend. That means the single standard bottle is the most expensive wine ever sold at auction, once again showcasing the collectors’ darling as a truly mythical offering.

This particular 1945 DRC came from the personal cellar of Robert Drouhin, an esteemed member of the family-run Masion Joseph Drouhin in Burgundy (and one of the masterminds behind the world’s most exclusive wine clans). The vintage has long had the attention of oenophiles, as it was the last bottling before Domaine de la Romanée-Conti replanted its oldest vines—which had endured, among many events in its 100 years in Burgundy, a wave of phylloxera and World War I and II. Production of the wine was severely limited to begin with, and now any remaining bottles have become an obsession across the wine world. The reason for all the commotion lies with those vines, which connoisseurs say add an unparalleled depth and complexity to the wine.

“We made history this weekend,” Acker chairman John Kapon said in a statement. “I’ve had the privilege of tasting the 1945 Romanée-Conti just three times in my life, and it is the greatest wine I’ve ever tasted. This remarkable sale was just one of hundreds of record-breaking achievements at an auction that highlighted the accelerating demand for trophy wines at the highest end of the fine wine market.”

DRC is all too familiar with holding world records, given that wine collectors across the globe hold its bottles in the highest esteem (so much so that the vino has been targeted by thieves in Virginia late last year). The previous title of the most expensive standard-sized bottle of wine ever sold at auction belonged to yet another 1945 bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, which hammered down for a cool $558,000 back in 2018 at Sotheby’s. Perhaps yet another 1945 bottle will complete the record-breaking trio soon enough.





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