Pieter Colpaert
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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You know, expensive watches, luxury handbags, and Pokemon cards, like all those just boomed in price. So in 2021, global wine auction sales hit their record high. $520 million worth of rare wines were sold that year. Wow. You know, there's also been a correction in the wine markets. The Livex Fine Wine 1000 Index, they track 1,000 leading wines. It fell 14% in 2023.
And then you have the champagne 50 index. This doubled during the pandemic between like 2020 and the end of 2022. But then last year, you know, another correction, it fell by 18%.
Yeah, I think the main example or the most famous one is a bottle of 1945 Romanée Conti, which sold for $558,000 at a Sotheby's auction in 2018, so six years ago. It still has the record for most expensive regular 750 milliliter bottle of wine ever sold. Wow. And that particular wine, that particular vintage is considered one of the greatest Burgundies ever made.
And there's only a couple of bottles left.
Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty bad at math, but I think it's like a small SUV with each gulp. Oh my gosh. I mean, there's some other, you know, ridiculous examples. Like there's a champagne bottle that they sold as an NFT in collaboration with Bored Ape.
Yeah. And Bored Ape is, you know, they're cartoon monkeys, basically. So this was a cartoon monkey champagne bottle, which sold for $2.5 million in 2022.
The bottle was real. Oh, the bottle was real? The bottle was real, but the cartoon monkey is fake. Okay.
Nope. I don't think any bottle of wine is worth 2.5 million. And there's another one called the Taste of Diamonds Champagne. That's a bottle they engraved with gold, and then they built an 18-carat diamond into the label. Oh, my God. That one, a little over 10 years ago, they sold for $1.9 million. Wow. That's dumb.
I mean, I think they're all kind of dumb, ridiculous examples. Although my favorite of these crazy expensive wines, I think, is the wine that went to space.
Yeah, it's something like that. I mean, they basically sent 12 bottles of Petrus 2000. That's considered one of the best wines in the world. They sent them to the International Space Station where they orbited for more than 14 months, just going around the Earth.
Great question. I mean, it was part of a privately funded research study on food and agriculture in space. So they were trying to examine the effect of zero gravity and space conditions on the aging process of wine. Okay, whatever. Yeah, I mean, when the bottles returned to Earth in January of 2021, they had some scientists analyze them.
And then they also had like a group of super lucky wine tasters. They got to compare the space-aged wine with the Earth-aged bottles.
No, I mean, it did taste more smoky. I bet it did. more floral. And that's according to journalist and wine writer, Jane Anson. She was one of the tasters. She said, you know, it's noticeably different, but she also said those are the aromatics, you know, the smoky floral ones that would develop when you age Petrus anyway, you know, whether you age it in space or, you know, in your cellar. Right.
In your cellar, your basement. Yeah. Yeah. She couldn't even say if it was better or worse. Yeah.
So in May of 2021, Christie's, they sold a bottle of the space wine along with like a regular bottle of the Petrus so that the buyer could compare the two. This was a private sale, so they didn't disclose the final price, but they set the estimated price at $1 million.
According to WineSearcher.com, the average price of a 2000 Petrus will be like around $7,000 for one bottle. So 7,000 versus, you know, 1 million.
Yeah, $993,000 for a space wine and like $7,000 of regular Petrus.
Yeah. I mean, I think you got to ask these collectors because I think there's a few of them who they'll probably enjoy the flex, you know, opening up this super rare bottle of wine for like a special occasion. Maybe they want to impress a date.
But, you know, I think mostly it's probably more an investment or like a status symbol because generally, you know, the value of those wines, it's way more tied to the rarity and the history of them than their actual taste. That makes sense.
Well, yeah, I think everybody loves a good story. They love a celebrity connection, right? So the historical significance of a particular bottle plays a big role. Several of the most expensive wines that have ever been sold have a connection to Thomas Jefferson, the founding father. He was one of history's most famous wine collectors. This guy, he was ambassador to France.
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