$558,000 for a single bottle — the last vintage before the vines were destroyed forever.
The 1945 Romanee-Conti by Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (DRC) holds the record as the priciest bottle ever sold at auction, achieving $558,000 at Sotheby's New York in October 2018 — more than doubling the previous record held by Screaming Eagle's 6-litre Imperial (#2). This vintage was the last produced before the estate's vines were uprooted due to phylloxera, with only 608 bottles ever made. After replanting, DRC produced no wine for several years, rendering the '45 a literal final harvest from vines that no longer exist. The anonymous Asian collector effectively paid roughly $17,500 per glass if opened — nearly 12% more per ounce than the runner-up bottle's equivalent cost.
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