Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

THE most expensive bottle of wine I’ve ever encountered which I thought would be worth the price (if one had the bucks to spare) cost about €32 retail.

“Wow,” you might say, “you really have to pay big bucks for those really special wines eh?”

Well maybe not. Because this particular one (a Puligny-Montrachet — chardonnay of course) cropped up at a tasting of Burgundies whose prices ranged up to €350. Compared to the wines you and I actually buy, this looks like an astonishingly expensive extravagance. But it’s more useful to compare it to its peers: it beat the socks off wines costing multiples of its price. And that’s a phenomenon I see happening at every price point.