The 10 most expensive wines and spirits sold by Christie's in 2018

One wine aficionado took home this rare case of 73-year-old Latour for $135,600 at the Geneva, Switzerland, auction in May.

Selling for $136,955, this case of Cros Parantoux — produced in the heart of France's Burgundy wine region — was the top lot of Christie's Hong Kong wine sale this past fall.

The highest-valued single bottles of all Christie's 2018 wine and spirits sales were rare and antique whiskeys, including this $166,320, 50-year-old brew that once held a Guinness world record for the being the most expensive in the world.

Wines from the Burgundy region are made from grapes that have been grown in unique soil that helps give them an earthy flavor unlike any other, and that's in part why this case of six sold for $166,320.

According to the watches and spirits review site Bexsonn, this whiskey — which Christie's sold for $181,440 — is "one of the oldest, rarest, and most singular expressions of Japanese spirit in existence."

Sold for $181,440, this incredibly rare single malt was aged in a sherry-seasoned oak cask from Spain, Forbes reported.

On the same day Christie's sold a six-bottle lot of this luxurious wine in London, the auctioneer sold a 12-bottle case for twice the price, $332,640.

Although the same exact wine sold for about $30,000 less just eight months prior, this 12-bottle lot of Romanée-Conti sold for $362,880 in November.

The most expensive spirit sold by Christie's in 2018 was a single bottle of whiskey that sold for more than four times as much as the second most expensive lot, topping the list with a $1,512,000 price tag. The extremely rare collectable spent 60 years maturing in ex-sherry casks before being transferred to a bottle that was hand-painted by Irish artist Michael Dillon.