How much would you pay for wine? A Chinese entrepreneur purchased a mix of vintage wines for $500,000, his previous large purchase was only $59,880. The mix of vintages of Romanee Conti, is considered to be among the world’s most exclusive wines with only 450 cases made each year. The Beijing-based billionaire purchased “12 bottles of Romanee Conti 1978, two bottles of the 1961, 1966, 1996 and 2003 and single bottles of the 1981, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2002.”

Interesting record making tid-bit:

Malcolm Forbes, the late publisher of Forbes’ magazine, set a record in December 1985 when he paid 105,000 pounds, then about $162,750, for a 1787 bottle of red wine made by Bordeaux’s prestigious Chateau Lafitte.

In 2006 the Antique Wine Company sold the world’s most expensive bottle of white wine, a regular-sized bottle of Chateau d’Yquem 1787 for just under $100,000.

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