Top 10 most expensive wines sold at auction
19th May, 2014
by
Lauren Eads
2. 1947 French Cheval-Blanc – £192,000 ($304,375)
An imperial bottle of 1947 Cheval Blanc was sold at auction for the respectable sum of £192,000 ($304,375) in November 2010, setting a world record for the most expensive single bottle of wine ever sold at auction. The The now 67-year-old bottle, the only known bottle in the Imperial format from this particular Saint-Emilion vintage, was sold to a private collector at Christies, Geneva, smashing the auction house’s estimated price of between $150,000 and $200,000.