French Wine Sold for Record-breaking $558,000 at Sotheby`s Auction in New York
(WorldNews Sport)

A bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti wine was sold for a new record sum of $558,000 at an auction held by Sotheby´s in New York on Saturday. The bottle is one of only 600 produced in 1945 before the vines were pulled up for replanting. `The best bottles are so concentrated and exotic, with seemingly everlasting power - a wine at peace with itself,` Sotheby´s said of the wine. The auction house added that the vintage was `rare and wonderful`, despite `heavily damp-stained,...