10 Most Expensive Wines: A Connoisseur's Fantasy

#4 Chateau Lafite 1787

Price - $156,450

The name Lafite comes from the Gascon term "la hite" meaning "small hill". Lafite was one of four wine-producing Châteaux of Bordeaux originally awarded First Growth status in the 1855 Classification, which was based on recent prices. Since then, it has been a consistent producer of one of the world's most expensive red wines. The vineyard is one of the largest in the Médoc at 107 hectares, and produces around 35,000 cases annually, of which between 15,000 and 25,000 are first growths.

#3 Chateau Margaux 1787

Price - $225,000

Chateau Margaux 1787 is possibly best well known for being the most expensive bottle of wine ever broken.

In 1989, New York wine merchant, William Sokolin was the owner of a bottle of Chateau Margaux 1787. This bottle was one of several different wines that were inscribed with the initial Th. J and discovered behind a Paris cellar wall in 1985. It is thought that this bottle once belonged to Declaration of Independence writer, Thomas Jefferson.

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