The 5 most expensive wine bottles ever sold

Argomenti trattatiChateau Margaux 1787Chateau Lafite’s 1869Shipwrecked 1907 Heidsieck1947 Cheval-BlancScreaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 1992 Wine has become one of the most expensive luxury goods and you will be surprised to know how much collectors spend to buy a good bottle. Wine lovers and collectors spend crazy amounts of money to buy great wine, is it for a rare bottle to keep on the shelf or is it to make an extraordinary impression at dinner. Fantastic wine can be incredibly expensive and that is because of the intricate growing conditions and the very limited amount of ingredients. So, how much have collectors spent on a good wine bottle? Here are the 5 most expensive bottles ever sold. Chateau Margaux 1787 This wine bottle was paid $225,000 and there’s a fun fact. The wine merchant, William Solokin brought it to the Four Season Hotel for a Margaux dinner where the waiter.. dropped it. The insurance paid out a quarter of a million dollars and he also pined for a $500,000. How much money for wine never tasted. Chateau Lafite’s 1869 This rare wine bottle costs $230,000 and it was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong in 2010. The collector who bought it must have really liked the bottle, because he bought three of the three wine bottles available, spending the mere amount of $690,000. Why get one if you can get three of ’em? Shipwrecked 1907 Heidsieck This is a champagne bottle worth $275,000 and salvaged from a Swedish Freighter off the coast of Finland in 1998. The story of the ship definitely adds up historical significance, in fact, the ship was destined for the Imperial Court of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and had been torpedoed by a German submarine in WWI. Literally a more-than-100 years old taste. 1947 Cheval-Blanc This is the second most expensive wine bottle ever sold in history at a mere $304,375. The 67-year-old bottle was bought by a collector at an auction in Geneva. The Cheval is a class A of all merlot wines and that in the luxury wines world grapes from the period of April to October 1947 are said to be extraordinarily legendary. Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 1992 The most expensive wine bottle is a six-litre Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon from 1992 sold for $500,000 (yes, half a million dollars) at a Napa Valley charity auction. Chase Bailey, the ex Cisco Systems executive was the one to pick this up at the auction in 2000 and it is said the price was actually knocked down because it was a charity sale. Quite expensive sales.

The 5 most expensive wine bottles ever sold

Chateau Margaux 1787

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