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Home / News / World News / Most expensive bottles of wine sold at Sotheby's auction
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    Most expensive bottles of wine sold at Sotheby's auction

    Shiladitya Ray
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    Last updated on Oct 15, 2018, 12:58 pm
    Most expensive bottles of wine sold at Sotheby's auction
  • Two bottles of wine, made back in 1945 right after the end of the Second World War, have been sold at an auction for a total of just over $1mn, making them the most expensive bottles of wine ever sold.

    The auction, by Sotheby's in New York, saw three more wine bottles from 1937 sell for a total of $930,000.

    Here are the details.

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    Details about the two bottles of 1945 vintage The bottles of 1937 vintage sold for $310,000 each All five bottles shattered previous records
  • 1945 vintage

    Details about the two bottles of 1945 vintage

    Details about the two bottles of 1945 vintage
  • The two bottles of 1945 vintage were among the 600 to be made by top Burgundy producer Romanee-Conti right after the Second World War.

    The lot notes described the wine as "rare and wonderful", "exotic...with seemingly everlasting power - a wine at peace with itself".

    Moments after the first bottle sold for a whopping $558,000, the second one was bought for $496,000.

  • 1937 vintage

    The bottles of 1937 vintage sold for $310,000 each

    The bottles of 1937 vintage sold for $310,000 each
  • Meanwhile, the three bottles of 1937 vintage sold for an impressive $310,000 each.

    The bottles, both the 1945 vintage and the 1937 vintage, were being sold as part of a collection of 100 wine bottles from the personal cellar of wine producer Robert Drouhin.

    Nine of the 100 bottles attracted six figure sums, and the total collection sold for a whopping $7.3mn.

  • Records

    All five bottles shattered previous records

    All five bottles shattered previous records
  • The eye-popping sums commanded by the five bottles broke previous records of the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.

    The previous record holder was a six-litre bottle Cheval-Blanc 1947, which was sold in Geneva in 2010 for $304,375.

    Meanwhile, the record for a standard-sized wine bottle was $233,000 - a 1869 vintage of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild that was sold in Hong Kong in 2010.

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