March 31 (UPI) -- A bottle of wine from 1945 became the most expensive bottle of the beverage ever sold at auction when it fetched a price of $812,500.
Auction house Acker said the 750 ml bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, originally sourced from the personal wine cellar of Robert Drouhin, fetched the record-breaking price at its La Paulée auction during the weekend.
The previous most expensive bottle of wine sold at auction was set at $558,000 in 2018.
"The 1945 Romanée-Conti represents the final vintage produced before Domaine de la Romanée-Conti replanted its oldest vines -- grapes that had survived phylloxera, two World Wars and nearly a century of Burgundy history," the auction house said in a news release. "With production extremely limited, surviving bottles have long been considered the pinnacle of wine collecting, with many connoisseurs believing the pre-phylloxera vines add an unmatched depth and complexity to the wine."
Acker Chairman John Kapon said the wine is worth the price.
