I’m surprised to see no Barolo in the top 50. Despite all the price increases in Piedmont, it is still a relative bargain region. How much do you think the region’s prices are going to grow further? Would you say this might be a golden era of buying before we approach the heights of Burgundy or are prices never going to get that high?
Excellent idea if you mean “exclude wines That began production fewer than 10 years ago”. Liber Pater shows up in the top 50 and it has zero track record and is made in vineyards that deserve $15/bottle. It’s like what would happen if Kanye West moved to Fronsac and started “making” wine.
No idea. Given they only produce like 400-500 bottles, I suspect there are probably enough people in the world who want to try 19th century style Bordeaux…
though the most recent vintage is ludicrously priced. I can see the argument on historic vintages where, say, you’re between a bottle of Petrus and Liber Pater and decide to go for the Liber Pater because you’ve got a well stocked Petrus cellar arleady, but when you’re talking about a case of Petrus versus one bottle of Liber Pater…
It’s mentioned in the article:
“the only Left Bank representative the maverick Liber Pater, which remains below the $5000 mark, despite the release price of its latest vintage sitting at $34,000.“
Although I´ve had the luck to taste almost all of the top 10 in this list (except the Port and the d´Auvenay Batard) due to some wine-friends I´m not in the state to buy any of these myself, sacrifying my income of almost 4-5 months for it.
In our global world there are so many wealthy people around, often with a longing for prestige more than for connoseurship, who do not care if a bottle is 1.000, 10.000 or 25.000+ bucks, as long as they simply “WANT IT”.
I cannot and do not want to compete on this financial level, although I would not hesitate to join a tasting paying 500-1.000 for some rare and great wines.
In my experience a fine and mature Romanee-St-Vivant “can” be even more satisfying than a Romanee-Conti (not that I had that many of the latter),
and a L´Eglise-Clinet can be more impressive than a Petrus (depending on vintage and bottle).
It’s kind of genius. If there’s nothing out there like it, what do you have to compare it to?
“This wine sucks”
“That’s just because you have a modern palate … this is authentic 1800s Bordeaux”
“Oh… maybe so?”
Hahaha, well, true! Though given they’re using the same grape varieties on pre-phylloxera roots etc as I understand it, I’d hope its not a million miles off!