Most expensive wines 2026: Leroy Musigny leads at $61,596
Wine-Searcher's annual top ten is Burgundy in nine places out of ten. Leroy's Musigny rose 31.1% in a year, and one bottle of each wine now adds up to $228,588.
The world's most expensive wines of 2026 are almost all from Burgundy: Leroy Musigny Grand Cru tops Wine-Searcher's annual ranking with a global average retail price of $61,596 a bottle, up 31.1% on a year earlier.
Wine-Searcher published the list on 29 September. Nine of the ten places belong to Burgundy; the only outsider is Egon Müller's Scharzhofberger Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese from the Mosel, ninth at $13,472. The grapes are as narrow as the map: six Pinot Noirs, three Chardonnays and one sweet Riesling.
Musigny is a grand cru of about 10 hectares inside the commune of Chambolle-Musigny, in the Côte de Nuits. Leroy's bottling averaged $46,991 a year ago and $28,071 five years ago, a rise of 119.4% over the period. It overtook Domaine de la Romanée-Conti's Romanée-Conti in April 2019, according to Wine-Searcher data reported by Vinetur in 2025, and has stayed ahead since.
The tenth-placed bottle now costs almost three times what the leader averaged a decade ago.
The ten most expensive wines and their prices
Behind Leroy come Domaine d'Auvenay Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru at $24,952, d'Auvenay Bâtard-Montrachet at $24,048 and Romanée-Conti at $24,005, almost flat at 0.9% up. Then Domaine Leflaive Montrachet at $19,691, Roumier Musigny at $17,100, Leroy Chambertin at $16,078, Olivier Bernstein Romanée-Saint-Vivant at $14,537, the Egon Müller and, in tenth place, d'Auvenay Mazis-Chambertin at $13,109.
The biggest mover is Bernstein, who released his first vintage in 2007: his Romanée-Saint-Vivant more than doubled from $7,125, with only the 2017 vintage on the market. Six of the ten rose over the year and four fell, among them Roumier's Musigny, down 5.6%, and the Bâtard-Montrachet, down 4%. Over five years only two lost value: d'Auvenay's Chevalier-Montrachet and the Egon Müller.
How Wine-Searcher ranks the most expensive wines
The figure is a global average retail price: the average of the prices merchants list on Wine-Searcher, taken across every vintage of a wine on offer, not a record set by one bottle. Wines no longer made stay out. Henri Jayer's Richebourg Grand Cru and Cros Parantoux would have qualified, but Jayer died in 2006; so would the 2016 Montrachet L'Exceptionnelle Vendange des Sept Domaines, 600 bottles pooled by seven estates after a spring frost.
Buying one bottle of each of the ten would cost $228,588, against $204,116 a year ago, a rise of 12%. The money follows scarcity in a region that has just had Burgundy's earliest harvest in nearly 500 years, and it moves in the same circles as Sotheby's sale of a Macallan 1926 at the distillery.
One number puts the list in perspective. Ten years ago Leroy Musigny averaged $4,664, Wine-Searcher's data showed in 2025. Today the cheapest of the most expensive wines, in tenth place, costs almost three times that.
