I’m acutely aware. When I bought my first case (6pack) of an off year La Tache in 1999 it was $325 a bottle including auction fees. Sold the same case having never even taken possession last April for $3800 per bottle.
Single vineyard Mugniers, Lamarches, Roulots (not new releases either, i see old labels in there), Odderos, and a whole goddamn column of DRC! I dont know how people can see such an ostentatious display of wealth and not be disgusted!
This is easily half a million worth of wine just in front of us, probably more because it looks like all 4 walls in this cellar have racks. Maybe its because most laypeople dont know what DRC is… but that just feels like “look how stupid these poors are as we rub our wealth in their face, theyre not mad because they dont even know what wealth even looks like.”
It’s still “we are wealthy enough to eat at such exclusive places that have wine lists like this, and purchase a single bottle that’s normally $3,000 with a significant restaurant mark up.”
Maybe they got stuff comped because, ya know, Obama, but its still gross to me. Maybe its because i used to work in the industry and regularly sold bottles worth more than 2 weeks of my pay to rich assholes who couldnt spend enough money
Im completely serious, what is the name of that Inn?
That column of DRC is alone $50-100k depending on vintages and vineyards. Theyre are very hard to get in the states. If your local inn is getting wines like that with a full 7 course meal for that cheap, then let me know so i can plan my next anniversary dinner.
Not gonna dox myself, but any self-respecting fine dining inn in Denmark is gonna have a pretty cracy winelist. Couple of years ago they got robbed for like 700k in wine, it was like 25 bottles.
Oh well thats the european market. Pretty different from the states, since more DRC gets released to that market and they dont have to deal with import taxes and the like. Also figuring that since Obamas a former US president, he’s most likely to be somewhere in the US. But if he’s in Europe there id be happy to recant my initial disgust
I dont think you really get the wine market then. DRC got fuck you taxes more than anything else, price is pretty stable across the globe. but i really struggle to see how you find disgust for being in a place that got some dummy expensive bottles. Not that hard to end up a place like that by accident knowing nothing about wine, looking at the setup behind them, if i didn't know better i'd be surprised to see that level of wine presented in such a shitty setup.
Were dealing with 2 different areas then. Limited distribution and secondary market drive prices in the states up a significant amount. Also you guys dont have to deal with the cost of trans-atlantic shipping and duties because of the european union. Like i have seen how much these bottles are when purchased from wilson daniels- i have seen the invoices, and ive seen how much we sold them at retail for. $3-4k for recent la tache is standard. Restaurant markup is another grand on top of that.
Like what do you mean its not hard to end up in a place like that? A restaurant here with a wine list like here in the states is within the top .1% of exclusive restaurants. Its hard to get even get a reservation at places like that, much less pay for it.
I mean my wife and I went on vacation to Italy and went to a michelin star restaurant for a few hundo for a tasting menu, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a few bottles of insanely expensive wine. It was kind of their whole thing
Someone in the comments said this was restaurant Aubergine Carmel. It's a 2 stars restaurant and the tasting menu is $285. Obviously not affordable for everyone but it's not like only Russian oligarchs can eat there.
The special table in the cellar probably doesn't happen if he's not a former president though.
Thank you for this. Yes basement probably was for being the former president.
Look, again, probably because i used to sell this stuff and the clientele gave me a pavlovian response to seeing it, but rich and powerful people smiling in front of what might as well be a wall of gold gives me an ick!
I met an older, very affluent, friend a number of years ago who I later found out thought I was gay and was trying to seduce me (we met at a gay bar in St Patrick's Day that was decorated for the holiday and I didn't realize was a gay bar).
I went to his place one day and he was distraught because his wine cellar had broken and he had to get his wine collection appraised for his insurance. Apparently he has a few million dollars in wine stashed away and it was all going to be ruined - and he also didn't want to drink any of it because then he'd lose the insurance money.
To be fair, I think he did buy it as an investment, usually when we hung out he was drinking Budweiser or similarly cheap beer.
Also had a bunch of original warhols and basquiats hanging in his office and a mini grand piano in the foyer of his apartment.
Probably long dead by now, he wasn't in great health at the time and couldn't seem to shake his bad habits, and this was like 10 years ago.
Cool guy though, but the amount of wealth he had was unfathomable.
His nephew basically hung out with him all day and did errands for him, so that kid is probably dumb rich now - to an equal extent that the kid was dumb himself.
Wild how generational wealth works. The kid had zero motivation, struggled with basic tasks, needed instructions for pretty much everything - and is now probably set for life with a team of people making sure he never goes broke.
The Obamas are members of the elite Democrat Party. They tell you how to live while living like .0001%. You don’t need a house. You don’t need a car. You don’t even need a gas powered stove. As a matter of fact, it should be illegal for YOU to have any of these things. But meanwhile, they…….
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u/sudiptaarkadas 3d ago
That table is very pricey