The world's most expensive wines- from Wine Searcher

[dvansteenderen]

I count myself lucky for having tasted 3 of the 10, and 1 of those from two different vintages!

[A_Gillette]

To be clear, doesn’t the wine searcher price represent the price at which the wine doesn’t sell? If people were willing to buy it, then it would not be available on wine-searcher.

This is not really correct.
It may be that a wine offered on WS is too expensive and will never sell -
but except the younger vintages of certain wines many bottles are simply not always in demand (summer, winter, holidays) - and
for rarer wines it simply needs the right buyer - who doesn´t always look for it.

For instance I found a bottle on WS over a year ago, I noted it as interesting and not expensive, but didn´t buy it due to lack of actual need -
Now I´m preparing a tasting - and this bottle fits perfectly - so I bought it immediately NOW.

Other wines are not really in demand because they are in a closed stage at the moment - but will sell easily when reaching maturity.
A good TN of a certain wine here or elsewhere can also lead to higher demand and sell out quickly now (after some time of stagnation).

I also bet all better 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 … will be in higher demand next year - not to speak of 1961 Bx - so for a dealer it´s always good to have things like that in stock -

Sorry - I didn’t mean to imply that wines on wine-searcher never sell (that would have been a ludicrous statement, although I kind of see how one could get there from my post). I’m talking about the wines on that list, or the ten most expensive wines in general. Most of those prices are roughly 3x what people who are buying those wines are paying (Egon’s TBA excepted as that price is roughly what you’d pay for one of the 12-24 bottles at auction, although more than what you would pay when there is a regular release TBA, like in 2018). The prices on that list are aspirational and not intended to be the price at which those bottles will move.