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French Winery Tests The Market With Huge List Price

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The French wine world is buzzing with the news of the listing of Chateau de Malle in Sauternes for an incredible 68 million euros. Decanter reports that the chateau appeared anonymously in the Financial Times last Saturday. The listing, by estate agency Maxwell Storrie Baynes, does not name the property and says that it "will furnish complete details upon the customary signing of confidentiality agreements." But the magic words "praised by the wine press including critics such as Robert Parker" helped wine watchers narrow it down. Decanter quotes an agent in the area who was apparently gobsmacked by the price calling it "completely crazy" taking into account the fact that aspiring winemakers often want properties in the marquee territories like St Emilion, Pomerol and cru classe Medoc rather than Sauternes.

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Chateau d'Yquem Goes King Size

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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.

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The Great Antique Yquem Collection

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We already know the Chateau d'Yquem can be pricey, after all, a single bottle of the 1787 went for $90,000 earlier this year but what about owning every vintage of Chateau d'Yquem since 1860? Decanter reports on The Great Antique Yquem Collection, a collection of Sauternes first growth stretching from 1860 to 2002. This comprehensive collection will be offered for sale by the Antique Wine Company. The wines will be displayed  in a pair of cabinets custom-built by furniture designer David Linley. How much will it go for? It's hard to know but it should fetch at least a million or two. The vintages are all said to be in great shape with many of the older bottles having been re-corked at Yquem. The collection will also include tasting notes for all the wines. The Antique Wine Company has a mailing list for the sale so you can be the  first to know when it takes places.

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Sotheby's Wine Sale Offers Vintage Ports

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Sotheby's wine sale on February 22 in London offers a chance to pick up the usual Petrus, Cheval Blancs and Latours but also offers some vintage ports including Croft 1966, Warre's 1970, Graham's 1975 and Taylor's 1977.  The sale also includes rare  and mature Claret recently removed from a private London residence including Château La Mission Haut Brion 1945 in magnum , Château Lafite Rothschild 1959 in double magnum and First Growths from the 1934 vintage. And though there isn't a Sauternes as old as the one that sold for $90,000 last week you can pick up a 1941 for a very reasonable $340-$520. 

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The World's Most Expensive White Wine

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A record for the world's most expensive bottle of white wine has been set with a $90,000 1787 Sauternes from Château d'Yquem. Stephen Williams, Managing Director of Antique Wine Company said that the company has been "working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours." The client is a U.S.-based wine collector and the wine was sold by a private collector in France. The bottle has been inspected and re-corked several times during the past century. The grapes were picked when George Washington became the first President of the U.S. and so the wine has value as a piece of history regardless over whether the wine itself has held up through time. Williams is taking no chances getting the wine to the client. He picked it up from France in his private plane and will fly it over to the U.S. to personally hand it to the new owner.

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