(Maxim) - Ultra high-end whiskies have been getting all the glory lately. Collectors recently gobbled up the world's most expensive whiskey bottle for $1.1 million (an extremely rare 1926 Macallan scotch) and the priciest Japanese whiskey, a $300,000 Yamakazi single malt. 

But now the wine world has clapped back with the blockbuster sale of the five most expensive bottles ever sold.

At a Sotheby's auction in New York last weekend, a bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold for an unheard-of $558,000, smashing the auction house's estimate of $32,000. 

The wine, a red Burgundy from Cote de Nuits, is insanely coveted because only 600 bottles were made in 1945, and the vines were removed and replanted after that vintage.