We are going to have a departmental dinner tonight and I was asked to organize a mini wine tasting for those interested in taking part. I thought I would repeat the RP90 exercise again as none of the members of the department were there that time. The most expensive wine in the line up, at least as far as the market price is concerned is the Carruades de Lafite 1998.
Lafite's second wine(like anything of Lafite) is subject to speculation, especially by the Chinese. At one point, before the Chinese caught onto Chateau Haut-Brion, the price of Carruades de Lafite nearly equalled that of Haut-Brion, prompting a telling comment from the British magazine Decanter. That of course is unwarranted madness. Now that top Clarets are being viewed as an investment rather than as a drink and their prices have spiraled out of reach on more and more wine lovers, it seems that madness has prevailed.
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