It surprised me, when I came across the fact that the world’s most expensive wines became expensive at charity auctions or bids. James Christie’s wine house which was opened in 1766…fetched him £105,000 or $160,000, from the sales of Bordeaux, a 1787 Chateau Lafitte, in the year 1985. So you can imagine about the “Flavored d Clarets” soaring high on a per bottle bid in an auction and it has remained so 18 years The Guinness Book of World Records considers this bottle to be the most expensive bottle, until date. What was the blend? I do not know…But I can definitely tell you about the Thomas Jefferson initial etched on the bottle that sky rocketed its sales. The bottle belonged to Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the US, and, who was a wine lover. He also has his initials etched on the 1775 Sherry ($43,500) and a 1787 Chateau d’Yquem ($56,588)…Thomas Jefferson and expensive wines. Oh! No I am not categorizing it…I will let the wine be the red wine from the vineyards of Bordeaux and Burgundy.
Let us move on to the next category of the 1978 vintage…one the scariest and the finest Burgundy vintage. The prices of the seven-bottle collection of the Montrachet 1978 actually left me in a stupor – a mighty $167,500, or $23,929 per bottle, and such a high price for the unyielding bidding of the wine collectors in New York. Though it is the finest exponent of Chardonnay, but this white Burgundy from the finest white wine vineyard Domaine de la Romanee-Conti delivered a sweating £118,100 and even high.
Okay, I am simply seduced by the bidding rates and not the wines…you want to know the reason. I am wrapping up this compilation with most expensive wine that was never sold. It was from the Christie’s again – a bottle of Chateau Margaux 1787, with Jefferson’s initials. William Sokolin donated a huge sum of $225,000, in the charity auction and took away the bottle. He could never drink from it. He had insured the bottle and divided the money that he had got from the broken bottle with the owner of Four Seasons Restaurant.
Now I am out of the trance, with the breaking of the most expensive wine bottle in the world, costing $225,000.
Take-a-sip-at:Forbes
