Bordeaux 2010 primeur prices - final thoughts
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:39 pm
Just looking at prices from two wine merchants in Denmark and I'm feeling very sad. How did it gone that far?
Cheval Blanc 2010 100% up on 2005
Lafite and Latour 2010 10 times more expensive than their respective 2008
L'Eglise Clinet 2010 400 Euro and a chateau owner who acts very strange when asked for a rendez-vous.
And I could countinue. I know however that Ausone, Lafleur, Le Pin and Petrus came out extremely high and in minisculous quantities.
I've been visiting Bx since 1984 and I miss the low prices during 90s
I decided to buy ZERO 2010 Bx mostly because of ridiculous prices. But I also have more than 700 bottles in my cellar and I'm in mid-sixties.
Has Bordeaux become the prisoner of its own success, have the suits/banks taken over price setting, does anybody care about world economy?
In 2001 I could buy FG for 1/6 of what a computer with monitor would costs. In 2011 I can buy two good computers for the price of Lafite/Latour.
If 2011 turns to be a very good vintage, then I think the bubble will burst, very heavily indeed, if Bx charges same price for it as for 2010.
Cheval Blanc 2010 100% up on 2005
Lafite and Latour 2010 10 times more expensive than their respective 2008
L'Eglise Clinet 2010 400 Euro and a chateau owner who acts very strange when asked for a rendez-vous.
And I could countinue. I know however that Ausone, Lafleur, Le Pin and Petrus came out extremely high and in minisculous quantities.
I've been visiting Bx since 1984 and I miss the low prices during 90s
I decided to buy ZERO 2010 Bx mostly because of ridiculous prices. But I also have more than 700 bottles in my cellar and I'm in mid-sixties.
Has Bordeaux become the prisoner of its own success, have the suits/banks taken over price setting, does anybody care about world economy?
In 2001 I could buy FG for 1/6 of what a computer with monitor would costs. In 2011 I can buy two good computers for the price of Lafite/Latour.
If 2011 turns to be a very good vintage, then I think the bubble will burst, very heavily indeed, if Bx charges same price for it as for 2010.