1855 Medoc Classification

Odd that there's no mention of the wine being insured, which, I mean, it had to be, somehow. This last line is a fantastic one: "These days, ’82 Lafite represents the height of wine prestige in China. Collectors and...

@ dmcker , I totally agree with your points as I have taste some first growth wines, of course Vintage not 100 marks rating. But I can say some wines of cheaper prices is of more impressed to me. As it is an assumption...

Re: GDP & First Growths... Funny enough, while I was at Morrell I was fascinated to see that the OFF vintages, due to the nature of the Bordeaux "market" were the ones to vanish first. IE: Drunk up, while everyone seemed...

Muchkabouche, have had a couple of bottles of Screaming Eagle, and nearly 100 bottles of Opus One over the years. Neither is the best in the world, in my estimation, though both can be very good wines. I imagine SE...

I will go for most expensive one DRC. If I can pick up more will choose first growth wines with RP ratings 100.

I can answer that. NO Mouton in particular - NO. It's has not performed consistantly enough to warrant it's lofty price. I used to buy some first growths. Keep in mind that when the 2000's were soaring on the futures...

How can anyone answer that? There's been attention on first growths since before they were even created. Do you like first growth Bordeaux? Enough to buy them? Cost and quality are not correlated and cost and...

There's been a lot of attention on the first growth wines such as Mouton Rothschild. Is the hype warranted as well as the price some of these wines fetch?

Penguinoid - don't need to go to Wikipedia, just go to Parker's site. He details how he tastes wine, or at least how he used to taste it. And he's always said that the scores are not the most important part of his work...

Chablis, though a very different expression of chardonnay than that from the Cote d'Or, is something I like very much. I might prefer in absolute terms the chardonnays from Beaune, but I'm very glad we have both. Though...