I remember tasting the VCC En Primeur. It was extraordinary, and with Ausone my two favorite wines of the vintage, and I have been following it ever since.
Year in, year out, it has dueled with Petrus and Lafleur as the top Pomerol, and even at $300 undercuts both. You can get eight bottles of VCC for one bottle of Petrus and four for the Lafleur. So I really don’t think it is overpriced in relative terms. In absolute terms of course it is; $350 for a bottle of wine is ludicrous.
I have opened three bottles of the ‘05 this year. One half bottle and two fifths. I have more than enough stashed that I realize that although the wine is not ready, it is still immensely satisfying, and works quite nicely with a long decant.
Over the last decade, I have been collecting VCC including wine from its golden age from the forties and fifties. I hope it’s ok to mention but I am planning to do a 45 bottle vertical over a weekend in October. I have already done a fourteen bottle version a couple of years ago (Vieux Chateau Certan 1943-2010), which was incredible; enough to convince me to convince me to find some more of these extremely rare older wines.