The most expensive wine ever sold is a bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, which fetched an astonishing $558,000 at an auction in 2018. This vintage Burgundy wine is pure legend, only 600 bottles were produced that year, and it was also the last vintage made from the vineyard’s old vines before they were replanted.

Second on the current list of exceptionally overpriced wines is a six-liter, imperial bottle of 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon that sold for a cool half million dollars at a Napa Valley charity auction in 2000. 1992 was the first vintage produced at winery and since that time Screaming Eagle has become synonymous with a very expensive wine lovers cult.

Somewhere on the list of expensive wines is the auction of several bottles of 1787 Chateau Lafitte (old spelling) sold in 1985 for $400,000. The wine was supposedly from Thomas Jefferson’s personal cellar. The actual provenance was questioned at the time of the sale, but that knowledge was suppressed. It was later revealed that the bottles were forgeries but everyone that mentions that is sued into oblivion.