The world`s most expensive bottles of wine

Price shown is average per bottle, ranking is from wine-searcher website, which collates wine prices across the world.

1. Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-Conti Grand Cru, Cote de Nuits, France. £8,310.

Generally regarded as the world’s most sought after wine. Hailed by experts as the perfect Burgundy with the Arcbishop of Paris declaring it as “velvet and satin in bottles”.

2. Henri Jayer Cros Parantoux, Vosne-Romanee Premier Cru, France. £4,894.

Another much sought after Burgundy. Hailing from a vineyard which had been abandoned and converted to artichoke production after a phylloxera epidemic. The wines are said to have a clarity and intensity that few can match.


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