Quote: (12-19-2013 03:20 PM)Flavius Aetius Wrote:
The old adage of about wine is true: What makes a wine expensive? The price.
To a certain point...yes. Once you get past the $200 per bottle mark it gets hard to justify.
But the difference between Robert Mondavi or Chateau St. Michelle and a small biodynamic winery in the back country of Spain are huge. There are wineries where harvesting is done by hand and there's 10 times the labor involved with producing the fruit. Also, with AOC, DOCG, DOP wines, the fruit yield per hectare is not allowed to go past a certain point which obviously affects how much wine is produced, thus raising the price.
If you're just looking to get drunk you're better off with grain spirits.