For your consideration:
Liber Pater
I’m in for a case.
$1,500/oz- I am sure it is worth it… yet part of me says I have to try it. Damn it. I hope I am never offered the chance to buy an oz.
You’ve got to admire this guy…he realized that the market segment of zillionaires who want to ostentatiously piss away their money was underserved, and he stepped up to the plate. There are thousands of billionaires on the planet and the only wine available at a price they would even notice was DRC. Any owner of a decent winery could have chosen to start pricing at five figures a bottle, all you need is a good line of BS and maybe a few props like his 150 year old plow. But only he had the guts to do it!
Is it legitimate to post about expensive wines?
Not that I have any experience in excessible ballering, but certainly I would not drink this wine from the pictured Burgundy glass…
Frequently receive more than 90 point scores from critics… wow, the wines must be really amazing in that case and worth every penny!
I’ve seen a couple of articles about this. But the term “worth” in title is misleading.
His release price is his release price. But the comparables they are using are bached by auction pricing.
It’s possible that he does sell out his 220 released bottles. But who would know? Only when there are multiple bottles at auction do you get a real idea of demand.
Leve only gave the 2018 a 94 so it must be plonk.
Let me guess - Suckling 105 points?
" In 2016 the estate was targeted by vandals who prevented the winery from processing that year’s grapes. "
The story behind it is quite interesting. 2015 is the first vintage in which they’ve used varietals not approved by INAO - Castet, Marselan and Tarney Coulant. Given the step change in climate conditions between now and when they were “outlawed”, can they honestly claim they’re a true representation of pre-phylloxera BDX? It strikes me that it’d be physically impossible to recreate the right conditions.
Maybe a few people think its a good investment and the price will be 100.000 bucks a bottle in the future. The rarest things on earth seem to have no price limit.
Courtesy of the entertaining dude from Craft and Curd
Loic’s success is also good news for the Bordeaux region in general, proving that the city’s top producers can hold their own against their Burgundian rivals in the fine wine arena
That is quite the statement. I’ll ring up the Rothschild’s and let them know they can move DefCon status to yellow.
Suckers
Is it dead at retail?
It does seem to have gotten more attention from luxury/investor sites than wine-centric ones
It’s interesting that he was convicted of fraud by misusing EU funds(he’s appealing)
Two serious wine questions:
One reason he was challenged by the INAO was his plan to plant 30,000 plants per acre. He scaled back to allowable 20,000 (5,000 to 10,000 is Graves norm). I wouldn’t think that would be conducive to high quality wine, but maybe the competition stresses the vines? I really don’t understand viticulture. 
Also, several articles talk about the old vines on property. But what was the property called before Pasquet bought it?
“In 2005, about 5 kilometers northwest of Landiras (see map above), he found and bought what looked like an abandoned parcel of old vines planted on gravel and sandy soils, atop a small mound at about 80 meters above sea level, which became Liber Pater.”
Well stated.
Remember the helicopter FOAF and the guy who bragged to me that he drank up all the Petrus at some exclusive restaurant
My experiences in wine are leading me to socialism
Kelly- see you at WWF?