10 Most Expensive Wines: A Connoisseur's Fantasy


#2 Shipwrecked 1907 Heidsieck

Price - $275,000

The bottle gets its name from being buried with a shipwreck deep beneath the Baltic Sea for 200 years. 145 bottles were salvaged from the wreck, off the autonomous Finnish Aaland archipelago in 2010. The ship is thought to have been sailing the high seas between 1825-1830 when it was sunk, making these bottles the oldest champagne known to exist. The recovered bottles have been tasted by expert Richard Juhlin, who identified their various brands.

#1 Screaming Eagle Cabernet 1992

Price - $500,000 (for charity)

The wine is a vintage wine produced by one of Napa Valley’s smallest wineries, Screaming Eagle. The Screaming Eagle Cabernet 1992 is unfined, unfiltered and aged in 60% new oak. The wine is only sold via a mailing list. Only 175 cases of this wine were ever made.

The wine can be bought at the following Napa Valley locations: Don Giovanni restaurant, Brava restaurant, the Saint Helena Wine Centre and Oakville Grocery. It is a dark purple colour and has a taste of blackcurrants and oak. 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet has been known to sell for $500-$1000. However, a bottle was sold for $500,000 at a Napa Valley auction in 2000. Though technically the most expensive wine ever sold, it must be noted that this was a charity auction and much of the price paid must be attributed to that fact.

Read More: 9 Most Expensive Liquors In The World/ 20 Most Expensive Countries To Buy Alcohol