This Is The Most Expensive Bottle Of White Wine Ever Sold

Start saving all your change, because just a sip of this wine might cost you an arm and a leg, assuming said arm and leg are made out of money.

The bottle, sold nearly 5 years ago according to The Wall Street Journal, went for a staggering £75,000, which comes out to roughly $96,963.75.

It’s a bottle of Château d’Yquem, a Bordeaux,  and it was created nearly 200 years ago, in 1811. This white wine was sold by The Antique Wine Company to a private collector and wine  connoisseur named Christian Vanneque.

Vanneque owns a restaurant in Bali, Indonesia, and has had his bottle of wine on display there ever since it opened up 5 years ago.

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Vanneque later purchased another bottle of the same exact wine, only this one was made in 1787, 24 years later. This bottle also sold for $117,000, roughly $20,000 more this time around.

When asked if he plans on drinking it, Vanneque said, “I will never resell it, even if a wealthy Chinese gentleman or a rich man from the Middle East offers to buy it. I’m not a fancy collector. I’m not rich. I work very hard. This is important that it’s not connected to investing. I’m a sommelier. Wine is for drinking.”

Another professional wine taster had the opportunity to try it in 1996 and said it was the best wine he’s ever tasted, claiming it to be “liquefied crème brûlée.”

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