That distinction belongs to Burgundy.

You have old Burgundy in that cellar, Mr Racksole, which cost me--how much do you think ?--eighty pounds a bottle.
Probably it will never be drunk,' he added with a sigh.

'It is too expensive even for princes and plutocrats.' 'Yes, it will,' said Racksole quickly.

'You and I will have a bottle up to-morrow.' 'Then,' continued Babylon, still riding his hobby-horse, 'there is a sample of the Rhine wine dated 1706 which caused such a sensation at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.

There is also a singularly glorious Persian wine from Shiraz, the like of which I have never seen elsewhere.