Overview
- The 750 ml bottle, auctioned over the weekend at Acker’s La Paulée in New York, sold for $812,500 to an undisclosed buyer.
- The price tops the previous record set in 2018 for the same 1945 wine at $558,000, a gain of about 50%.
- Acker said the bottle came from Robert Drouhin’s personal cellar, a pedigree that boosts collector confidence and value.
- Collectors prize the 1945 vintage as the last before Domaine de la Romanée‑Conti replanted old vines that had survived phylloxera and two world wars.
- Output from 1945 was tiny at roughly 600 bottles, and Acker chairman John Kapon called the wine the greatest he has tasted, highlighting demand for top Burgundy.