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The French wine auction house iDealwine set a new record last year. In 47 online auctions, 197,928 bottles were sold for a record value of 38.3 million euro including fees. Thereby, the average price per bottle was 194 euro, which is about 40 percent more compared to 2021. Wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy and the Rhône Valley accounted for 83.6 per cent of sales. Burgundy remains the top-selling region with a share of 45.3 per cent. Equally in demand were champagnes, whose prices really exploded with an average price per bottle of 259 euros.
But top Italian wines also achieved high average prices per bottle, followed by wines from Spain, the USA and Germany. German Rieslings in particular are increasingly in demand. The second place of the most expensive auctioned bottles from outside France and Italy goes to the 2005 Riesling Trocken G Max von Keller, which went under the hammer for 1,984 euros. The list of the most expensive 20 wineries outside France and Italy includes two German producers: Keller is in third place, Domaine Egon Müller in ninth.
According to iDealwine, it became clear that in the first half of the year, some top wineries benefited from a strong price increase. The last quarter of the year, on the other hand, was marked by a significant slowdown of the increase. This development is atypical, he said, because normally the strongest price increase is measured in the last quarter of the year. This situation was the result of a combination of high inflation, rising interest rates and an unstable international geopolitical situation.
Among the most expensive wines auctioned are also more and more organic and biodynamic cuvées and natural wines: The first places go to wines from the organic (dynamic) wineries Romanée-Conti, Auvenay, Leroy and Leflaive. But natural wines also made noticeable gains. Some of them were able to break the 1,000 euro barrier per bottle, including wines from Bizot, Selosse, Overnoy and Thierry Allemand.
The most expensive wines in 2022
(ru / source: press release)