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dotti34 · 05-07-2021, 01:30

Is this wine snobbery or just an example of what a collector will pay to own something rare, whether a painting, a sculpture, or a bottle of wine? Currently there is a bottle of Penfold’s 1951 Grange shiraz being auctioned over here. The selling price is expected to reach $120,000 or even more (that’s about 65,000 British pounds). Yes, that IS for one bottle - not the whole winery. I don’t know who the current owner is but there are less than 20 such bottles in circulation. Not sure about being in circulation – I think if you owned one of these you would have it in a very safe place, definitely not being circulated - imagine if it was handled by a butter-fingered person and oops! - sorry…..

This bottle is apparently extra valuable because it has the signature of the pioneering winemaker, Max Schubert, on it. Last year a bottle was sold for over $103,000.

So, if you have 65,000 pounds lying around you don’t want you too could become a snob of the wine variety. Doubt it will ever be known what it tastes like as doubt it will ever be opened, and after all these years in the bottle all I can say is ‘yuk!’ but I guess we will never know – some things improve with age….

05-07-2021, 01:30	#38
dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,189 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1480 times Rep Power: 833512	Re: Wine snobbery Is this wine snobbery or just an example of what a collector will pay to own something rare, whether a painting, a sculpture, or a bottle of wine? Currently there is a bottle of Penfold’s 1951 Grange shiraz being auctioned over here. The selling price is expected to reach $120,000 or even more (that’s about 65,000 British pounds). Yes, that IS for one bottle - not the whole winery. I don’t know who the current owner is but there are less than 20 such bottles in circulation. Not sure about being in circulation – I think if you owned one of these you would have it in a very safe place, definitely not being circulated - imagine if it was handled by a butter-fingered person and oops! - sorry….. This bottle is apparently extra valuable because it has the signature of the pioneering winemaker, Max Schubert, on it. Last year a bottle was sold for over $103,000. So, if you have 65,000 pounds lying around you don’t want you too could become a snob of the wine variety. Doubt it will ever be known what it tastes like as doubt it will ever be opened, and after all these years in the bottle all I can say is ‘yuk!’ but I guess we will never know – some things improve with age….