Wine-Searcher unveils its annual list of the world's priciest bottles – revealing the ultimate investments for wine connoisseurs.
Wine-Searcher 's list of the world's most expensive wines is based on the average monthly retail prices worldwide. Individual vintages were not taken into account, but a total price was calculated for each individual wine. In the interests of fairness, all bottlings with fewer than ten offerings have been excluded, meaning that there are one or two that would have made the list but are so rare that they are virtually unavailable in stores.
With wineries such as Domaine Leroy and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, wines from Burgundy clearly top the list. However, a wine from the Moselle also made it into the top 10 with the Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese from Egon Müller Scharzhof, priced at around €15.510.
Compared to last year, the same wines made the list, but with the difference that the prices were significantly higher. This marks the peak in 2023, when average prices rose by 29% compared to 2022. 2024 saw average prices decline by 12%.
However, a comparison with the list of the most expensive wines from 2014 shows that all wines cost considerably more today than they did ten years ago. At that time, the average price of the ten most expensive wines was around $7,975, whereas today it has almost tripled to $20,912 – an increase of almost 200 percent. In 2014, the top 10 also included two German wines, a Champagne from Louis Roederer and a Canadian wine.
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