Tom_Reddick:
The real problem for Magdelaine is that is just wasn’t selling at anywhere near a respectable price. The 2008 is one of their greatest vintages, and even mid the mid 2010s you could get the wine quite easily for less than $80- and far less than that with some frequency.
Trotanoy has never had any such difficulty and so it has been largely left alone- or at least that was the case with the late 2000s vintages which are my most recent TNs off the top of my head.
Much as I love and miss Magdelaine and wish it were still around, the market spoke loud and clear- and continues to do so. While the prices for older vintages have gone up quite a bit- given the fact the production of the Grand Vin is 1/2 to 2/3 that of Petrus and we are in a hyper market where all kinds of no-name wines are selling for a fortune, older vintages of Magdelaine are still very cheap.
I am just a few bottles away from having what I need to complete the last 2 tastings of what will comprise a complete vertical of 1970-2011 plus a smattering of older vintages, and just a couple of weeks ago in the UK I was able to source some pristine neck-fill bottles of the 1949 and 1959 (Chateau bottled) for less than $500 each plus some hard to find 70s vintages for less than $100 each. Those are shockingly low prices- but there it is.
Making sense of Bordeaux pricing and finding logic is almost impossible. Justifying the cost Petrus and then extrapolating from there is going to lead to problem conclusions
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My comment has nothing to do with the price of Petrus- I am merely addressing the rarity factor.