Comments on: Extreme Wines: Most Expensive Vintage? http://wineeconomist.com/2010/07/13/extreme-wines-most-expensive-vintage/ Sat, 18 May 2013 15:31:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: stayingfortea http://wineeconomist.com/2010/07/13/extreme-wines-most-expensive-vintage/#comment-1179 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:48:26 +0000 http://wineeconomist.com/?p=2003#comment-1179 Sounds like a winner takes all game – like major league sports, drug trafficking, and senior management. Those with historic name recognition take in all the money of newly rich buyers who lack the experience and/or confidence to bargain hunt for quality. I’m going with the China theory.

]]> By: Steve Webb http://wineeconomist.com/2010/07/13/extreme-wines-most-expensive-vintage/#comment-1177 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:55:00 +0000 http://wineeconomist.com/?p=2003#comment-1177 Succintly put – I particularly like the speculator definition.

It is interesting to compare the prices for Sauternes in this vintage The vintage was, if possible, even better for Sauternes than for the red wines, certainly more consistent, and yet prices only went up by around 25% on 2008 prices compared to an average of around 75% for Pauillac.

Within Sauternes, however, the chateaux with connections of one sort or another to red wine producing chateaux (either through ownership or marketing ties) almost matched the red wine increases – Coutet, Suduiraut, Rieussec and d’Yquem spring to mind.

The peer pressure within Bordeaux is therefore another factor that has to be taken into consideration. It takes a brave soul to step outside the system but in Sauternes at least a few successfully did this in 2009 and sold most of their wine at reasonable prices – Raymond Lafon, Doisy Daene and Climens are the best examples.

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