Overview
- Acker said a single 750 milliliter bottle of the 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti sold for $812,500 at its La Paulée auction in New York.
- The price tops the $558,000 paid for the same vintage in 2018, a rise of about 50%.
- The bottle came from Burgundy vintner Robert Drouhin’s personal cellar, a provenance collectors prize.
- The auction house did not name the buyer, which is common practice in high-end wine sales.
- Collectors value the 1945 as one of roughly 600 bottles from pre-phylloxera vines, the last vintage before the estate replanted its oldest plants after an insect blight that devastated European vineyards.