Re: Total Beginner
Buying a wine that is already aged and thus mature and ready to drink is a quick and easy way to find out if you want to get into the game.
You ask "Is the price reasonable?" It's $200 for a bottle of wine; of course it's not reasonable!
If you can spend that kind of money without a second thought, the price you quoted is very fair for this wine in the marketplace. The 1994 Taylor Fladgate is available in my neighborhood for around US$20 more.
You pay a premium of course because someone else cared for this wine for the last dozen years. Buying and tasting mature, you will know whether you want to make the next $200 for three bottles of young port that you will tend for a decade or two.
The other advantage to buying it maure. That next $200, what do you get? The satisfaction of owning wine for the future and a bill for whatever you will drink to celebrate.
Posted on: 2009.10.14