This is a bottle of the rare white wine from Chateau Haut-Brion, and yes, it is more expensive than the red most if not all of the time. Excuse the pinkish tint of the label, but if I had "corrected" it, then you cannot see the clear contents of the bottle - it is really the white! (Actually the silver print on the label as opposed to the old gold of the red also gives it away). Whilst some 48 ha of the estate are planted with red grapes, only 2.7 ha are planted with white grapes (which actually includes a soupcon of Sauvignon Gris but no Muscadelle), giving an average production of some 450-650 cases of white, as opposed to the ten to twelve thousand cases of red. Before Ch Mouton-Rothschild made its white, the only other First Growth making white wines was Ch Margaux, which was much more widely available.
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