Top 10 Expensive Wines

Wine is not just a drink. It has emerged to be a collector's item. Numerous buyers across the world search for the Top 10 expensive wines, which are, not only class apart when it comes to taste, but also has some publicity linked to it. These wines are sold, auctioned and even kept in collector's private collections. From exuberant price tags to amazing get-up and personalization of these wine bottles, it is worth having a piece of it at your home, if you are an ardent wine lover.

Let us have a look at some of the best wines in the world, which is a style statement in itself.

Famous Expensive Wines

1. Romanee Conti: One of the most famous wines, Romanee Conti is famous for its eight bottles of wine marked DRC 1990, which was sold at a huge price of $224,900 and $28,112 each. Currently it belongs to a buyer in London. It was sold it 1996.
2. Chateau Lafite 1787: There is an astounding fact to this bottle of wine. It is one wine, which was sold for the highest price ever that is at $160,000. It was in the year 1985 that it was sold in London. It is now in collection of Forbes. The best thing about this bottle is that it has the initials of Thomas Jefferson's inscribed on the bottle.
3. Chateau d Yquem 1784: Sold for $56,588, this is one famous bottle of wine, which is in London at present. The bottle was auctioned in the year 1986 and has the initials of Thomas Jefferson on the glass.
4. Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1945: Sold for a huge price of $114,614 in the year 1997 at London, the name of 'Jeroboam Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1945' will always be famous as one of the classic vintages in the world.
5. Screaming Eagle Cab 1992: Sold in Napa Valley in the year 2000, this wine was auctioned in a charity function and was sold at a price of $500,000. However, it is said that the price of this wine reached great heights but the cause of the auction, that is charity, made the price reasonable enough for Chase Bailey, the executive of Cisco Systems to buy it.
6. Massandra Sherry: Sold in the year 2001, in London, for $43,500. One of the famous wine brands in Czarist Russia, the 1775 Sherry of Massandra Collection is famous in both Russia and Europe. It is also the oldest wine in Western Europe.
7. Romanee-Conti DRC 1990: This is also a famous wine brand, which was sold in New York for $5,800 for each bottle.
8. Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1982: One of the most famous wines ever made on earth, six bottles of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1982 were sold for $420,000, which makes it $700 per bottle.
9. Screaming Eagle 1994: It was in the year 2000 that three bottles of the famous wine named Screaming Eagle 1994 were sold for high price of $3,833 for each bottle. It was sold in Christie's Los Angeles.
10. Le Montrachet: There are seven bottles of the famous wine named Le Montrachet, DRC 1978 which were auctioned in the year 2001 in New York for $23,929 for each.

The Top 10 expensive wines are owners pride and neighbors envy. If you too want to grab a bottle of one of these, be there at the wine auctions held all over the world, every year!


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