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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Well if you have more than you could drink already why not to profit from some bottles? 
And why are some years so good and some are not? I mean is there an actual HUGE bdifference that makes same 30$ bottle of year X worth 300$ when same wine of year X+1 is still worth only 30$? Can there be such a huge difference in taste? I am guessing some part of snobism is included in the whole picture. |
I agree a little of the cost is due to wine snobs pushing up the prices. The taste of wine is not for everybody but if you like the taste then there is a huge difference in taste from a good year to a poor year. Weather has a vast part to play in the taste as well as the rarity. A very wet year may produce great grapes but very few, making the few bottles produced worth 10 to 20 times the regular price.