The world's most expensive wines- just for fun...

As a reader, you know that Budget Vino focuses exclusively on wines costing $10 or less. Over the past year, I've found some awesome wines, and have had some great recommendations from readers.

Just for fun, I thought this week's posting should focus on how absurd wine prices can get. I scoured the web, and found this article in Forbes magazine that discusses the worlds most expensive bottles of vino. It is absolutely ridiculous. Here are some highlights..

• "Chateau Lafite 1787 sold at Christie's London in 1985 for $160,000. "
  
• "The world's most expensive bottle of wine that could actually be drunk today is also the most expensive wine ever sold in America, a Montrachet 1978 from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti that was hammered down at Sotheby's in New York in 2001. The lot of seven bottles fetched $167,500, or $23,929 per bottle."
• "The most expensive bottle of wine never sold. In 1989 William Sokolin, a New York wine merchant, had a bottle of Chateau Margaux 1787, also with Jefferson's initials, on consignment from its English owner. He was asking $500,000 for it."

The rest of the article is worth a read, but if you want to have some fun, make sure to check out the slide show.

Enjoy the absurdity!!

Comments

[Don Law]

When I was a bartender in Newport Beach, a customer ordered both of our Chateau Petrus 1980 bottles we had in the cellar... Each was about $1600 I believe. Good tip for the server that night.

[vintage]

In Oct 2010 a bottle of Lafite 1869 fetched $232,692 at an auction in Hong Kong