Bottle of French Burgundy Wine Sells for a Record-Breaking Price The 73-year-old wine is the most <br />expensive bottle ever sold at <br />auction,fetching $558,000. The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby's for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000. Romanee-Conti has become the king of collectible wines, and the 1945 is considered its most prized vintage. Romanee-Conti only produced <br />600 bottles in 1945. This was the last year before the producer replaced the older,<br />prized vines in 1947. Sotheby's described the 1945 vintage as "concentrated and exotic, with seemingly everlasting power — a wine at peace with itself."
