Most Expensive Bottles of Wine Sold at Auction (All Time)
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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1945 Romanee-Conti (DRC) leads in Auction Price Per Bottle (Thousand USD) with 1,100 in 2019.
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2018 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2019: 1945 Romanee-Conti (DRC) is 14.5× larger than 1959 Petrus.
About This Dataset
Most Expensive Bottles of Wine Sold at Auction (All Time)
Individual wine bottles or lots ranked by hammer price at public auction in thousands of USD. A 73-bottle collection of 1945 Romanée-Conti sold at Sotheby's in 2018 for $1.1 million per bottle — the most expensive individual bottle price ever achieved at auction. The 1945 vintage from this Burgundy domaine is considered the most sought-after wine in existence, with fewer than 600 bottles believed to remain, each representing a singular combination of wartime scarcity and legendary growing conditions.
Analysis
1945 Romanee-Conti (DRC) (1,100), 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet (500) and 1945 Mouton Rothschild (310) take the top three in Auction Price Per Bottle (Thousand USD) in 2019. Values run from 1,100 at the top to 76 at the bottom, a spread of 1,024. Most of that gap is between first and second alone (600 of 1,024); the other 7 are separated by just 424. Only 1 of the 8 reaches even half the leader's figure (550 or more).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2000–2019 (7 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Auction Price Per Bottle (Thousand USD)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2019.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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