Bottle of wine sold in New York for record-breaking USD 558,000

A bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti wine fetched a record-smashing USD 558,000 at an auction held at Sotheby's in New York Saturday, which saw two bottles break the previous record.

The final price, including taxes and commissions, was 17 times the auction house's USD 32,000 upper estimate for the fine French wine.

The bottle is one of 600 produced in 1945, just before the vines were pulled up for replanting.

Romanee-Conti is widely considered the best Burgundy wine, and is one of the world's most prestigious producers.

Its domain, in the Cote de Nuits region, spans less than two hectares, producing between 5,000 and 6,000 bottles per year.

The previous record for a standard wine bottle was held by an 1869 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, sold in Hong Kong in 2010 for USD 233,000.

Sotheby's New York

Sotheby

Romanee Conti wine

most expensive bottle of wine in the world

Burgundy

Romanee Conti

Cote de Nuits

Cote d Or

Chateau Lafite Rothschild