2011 Domaine d'Auvenay Bourgogne Aligoté Sous Chatelet
BY NEAL MARTIN |
Let’s get the elephant out of the room. The secondary market price for this “humble” Aligoté is around £3,000 per bottle. That is absurd. That is unbelievable. But that is reality. Someone out there is prepared to pay that amount of money for this wine, motivated by the fact that it was crafted by Lalou Bize-Leroy or perhaps motivated by pecuniary gains. After all, someone in Hong Kong is listing it for a cool £5,000 per bottle. But what is also absurd is how brilliant this wine tasted when served blind by the person who bought it soon after release for less than 1% of the aforementioned price.
Let’s get the elephant out of the room. The secondary market price for this “humble” Aligoté is around £3,000 per bottle. That is absurd. That is unbelievable. But that is reality. Someone out there is prepared to pay that amount of money for this wine, motivated by the fact that it was crafted by Lalou Bize-Leroy or perhaps motivated by pecuniary gains.
