If you are into wine at all you have probably heard of
Chateau d'Yquem, the sweet white Sauternes that inspires rhapsodies. Well, your wine wish list just got a lot bigger. For the first time in the chateau's history, they are selling a
limited number of nebuchadnezzar bottles of of the 2005 vintage. A nebuchadnezzar holds a whopping twenty bottles of the precious juice, which is created when Botrytis, the noble rot, shrivels grapes leaving a sweet and complex elixir. There will be 120 of the nebuchadnezzars made: 50 to Bordeaux Wine Investments and 50 to its American counterpart Bordeaux Wine Locators. The other 20 bottles will be kept for the chateau collection. The bottles are meant to commemorate this exceptional vintage and tempt deep-pocketed spenders, the bottles sell for around $17,000.
In December ,Bordeaux Wine Investments reported that they had already sold 41 of their 50 bottles even though the wine won't be delivered until 2009. I'm guessing someday one of these bottles will hit the auction block for a truly astronomical sum.
