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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Romanée-Conti Grand Cru

The most expensive wine in the world: about 5,000–6,000 bottles a year from a 1.81-hectare monopole, sold only in mixed cases.

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The Romanée-Conti vineyard
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Romanée-Conti is Domaine de la Romanée-Conti's monopole grand cru of 1.81 hectares. The domaine publishes bottle counts per vintage in its release documents; production runs at roughly 5,000–6,000 bottles, and none in 1946–1951 while the vineyard was replanted. It is sold only within the domaine's mixed-case allocations, which is why the secondary market — not the domaine — sets its price.

Made by
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
From
Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy
Style
RedPinot Noir
Bottles made in a typical year
5.5K
The kind of wine

Burgundy grand cru (Pinot Noir)

A Pinot Noir from one of the top-ranked vineyards of Burgundy. The plots are tiny and each vine gives very little wine.

What a bottle like this costs to make

A glass of red wine on a mossy stone wall beside an autumn vineyard, with a church spire in the mist

Good years and bad

One square for each year. The darker the square, the better the weather was for the grapes. Tap a year to read about it.

20232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007200620052004200320022001200019991998199719961995
ExceptionalExcellentVery goodGoodMixedDifficult
The essentials

Price history in outline

Romanée-Conti led the Burgundy boom of 2010–2022 and the correction that followed. Auction records for old vintages (a 1945 at $558,000 in 2018) coexist with a current-release market in the tens of thousands of dollars a bottle, falling sharply from the 2022 peak in trade reporting.

Every year in a tableHow each year was rated, and the price the producer first asked
VintageHow the year was ratedRelease priceHow rare (0–100)The growing season
2023Very Good — 85
2022Excellent — 85
2021Difficult — 86The 6–8 April frost destroyed much of the crop; the smallest Burgundy harvest in decades.
2020Excellent — 86
2019Exceptional — 86Hot, dry summer with low yields; concentrated wines released into the 2021–22 peak.
2018Excellent — 87
2017Very Good — 87
2016Very Good — 88April frost cut some Côte de Beaune producers' crops by more than half; very small…
2015Exceptional — 88Warm, dry summer; ripe, concentrated reds widely rated as a great vintage.
2014Very Good — 89
2013Good — 89
2012Very Good — 90
2011Good — 90
2010Excellent — 90
2009Excellent — 90
2008Very Good — 91
2007Good — 91
2006Good — 91
2005Exceptional — 91
2004Mixed — 92
2003Mixed — 92
2002Excellent — 92
2001Good — 92
2000Good — 92
1999Excellent — 93
1998Good — 93
1997Good — 93
1996Very Good — 93
1995Very Good — 93
 Release price is what the producer first asked for a bottle. A dash means no price was published.

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What does this wine cost to make?Our estimate: $48–$283 a bottle

We estimate it costs about $48 to $283 to make one bottle of a wine like this. The price in the shop is far higher because the land is scarce, the name is famous, and many hands take a share on the way to you.

ComponentLowHigh
Imputed land cost$27.58$207
Vineyard operations$4.87$14.04
Oak barrels$0.54$1.72
Winemaking labour and cellar work$3.00$6.00
Cellar aging$0.96$2.72
Bottle, closure, label, case and bottling$4.40$11.40
Winery overhead$4.00$10.00
Financing over the aging period$2.18$30.15
Estimated winery production cost$47.53$283
 One standard bottle, at the winery door. Built in US dollars and shown in your chosen currency.

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Recent auction resultsWhat bottles of this wine fetched when collectors sold them
Sale dateVintageHouse and saleFormatLot pricePer bottle
Sep 20262021Sotheby'sFinest & Rarest Wines (N12244) · lot 41 × 75 cl$17,500$17,500 with premium
Sep 20262019Sotheby'sFinest & Rarest Wines (N12244) · lot 33 × 75 cl$68,750$22,917 with premium
Sep 20262010Sotheby'sFinest & Rarest Wines (N12244) · lot 21 × 75 cl$20,000$20,000 with premium
Sep 20262015Christie'sFine and Rare Wines & Spirits Online: London Edition (sale 24534) · lot 1321 × 75 cl≈$21,497≈$21,497 with premium
Sep 20262018Christie'sFine and Rare Wines & Spirits Online: London Edition (sale 24534) · lot 422 × 75 cl≈$36,380≈$18,190 with premium
Jun 20262002Christie'sFine and Rare Wines & Spirits Online Day 1: Featuring the Collection of Ken Follett (sale 24640) · lot 421 × 75 cl≈$14,056≈$14,056 with premium
May 20262013Christie'sICONIC WINES FROM JOSEPH LAU PART V THE FINAL PART (sale 24462) · lot 50711 × 75 cl≈$19,114≈$19,114 with premium
May 20262012Christie'sICONIC WINES FROM JOSEPH LAU PART V THE FINAL PART (sale 24462) · lot 50702 × 75 cl≈$38,228≈$19,114 with premium
May 20262010Christie'sICONIC WINES FROM JOSEPH LAU PART V THE FINAL PART (sale 24462) · lot 50692 × 75 cl≈$41,414≈$20,707 with premium
May 20262009Christie'sICONIC WINES FROM JOSEPH LAU PART V THE FINAL PART (sale 24462) · lot 50682 × 75 cl≈$38,228≈$19,114 with premium
May 20262009Christie'sICONIC WINES FROM JOSEPH LAU PART V THE FINAL PART (sale 24462) · lot 50672 × 75 cl≈$38,228≈$19,114 with premium
May 20262009Christie'sICONIC WINES FROM JOSEPH LAU PART V THE FINAL PART (sale 24462) · lot 50662 × 75 cl≈$41,414≈$20,707 with premium
 Prices are in the currency of each sale. Christie’s and Sotheby’s include the buyer’s fee; Hart Davis Hart shows the price before it.

All lots on record

The detailsClassification, grapes, bottle sizes and the rest
Producer
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Region
Burgundy
Appellation
Vosne-Romanée
Classification
Grand cru monopole
Style
Red · Pinot Noir, whole-cluster, new oak
Grape composition
Pinot Noir100%
Vineyard
Romanée-Conti
Bottle sizes
750 · 1500 ml
Bottles made in a typical year
5,500 bottles≈ 5,000–6,000 bottles; the domaine publishes per-vintage counts
First vintage made
1869
Great years
10 of 29 rated excellent or exceptional

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Richebourg

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Chambertin

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Storm sky over the Corton-Charlemagne cross, Aloxe-Corton, Burgundy

Corton-Charlemagne

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Bonnes-Mares

Roumier's 1.5 hectares of Bonnes-Mares — the domaine's largest grand cru and its most traded wine.

Sources

  1. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2026.
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