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Old 03-14-2014, 11:19 AM  
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Originally Posted by F-U-Jimmy View Post
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.
So when is it established that wine of that year is good? I mean - at the very beginning the same wine is going for regular price and then suddenly (or after years) in spikes in price. Why can not they tell if it is good from the very beginning? And spike the price from the very first day?
Somehow it takes them years to realize that wine from certain years was good and only then when it is "announced" that wine goes up in price?

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