The Guinness Book of World Records' website shows the buyer with the bottle of white wine he purchased for $121,000.
The buyer is the former head of wine services at La Tour d'Argent, the Paris restaurant that many consider the best in the world.
The 200-year-old bottle of the prestigious dessert wine Château d'Yquem was bottled in 1811.
The record price for a single bottle of red wine is $144,000.
