$558,000 for a single bottle — the last vintage before the vines were destroyed forever.
The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction achieved $558,000 at Sotheby's New York in October 2018, more than doubling the previous record. The 1945 vintage was the last produced before Domaine de la Romanee-Conti's vines were pulled up due to phylloxera — meaning only 608 bottles were made. The estate then replanted and produced no wine for several years, making the '45 a literal last drop from vines that no longer exist. The buyer, an anonymous Asian collector, paid roughly $17,500 per glass of wine if opened.
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