Chapter 776: Rare is Precious
This can be seen in the 2000 Hollywood film "Family Man", when the Wall Street investment broker played by Nicolas Cage took his wife to a French restaurant to celebrate her wedding anniversary, and without even looking at the menu, he expertly ordered the waiter: "Quail in a casserole with shiitake mushrooms, and a thin slice of veal with raspberry truffle sauce, and sea scallops and 'chao' fresh thistle heart." Then I ordered another bottle of Lafite from 1982. But when his wife looked at the wine list, she reminded him, "Honey, a bottle costs $800!" "This is the reference price for the U.S. market around the year 2000. Of course, the price of a restaurant is always a bit more expensive than that of a shop, which is also an international practice.
According to the "10 Investment Grade Wines" listed in the British newspaper The Guardian on 21 July 2006, the price of the 1982 Lafite in June 2001 was £3,306, with an average of about £276 per bottle.
In 2003, a bottle of 82 Lafite at this time was 375 pounds, which was converted into RMB 4,000 yuan a bottle, which was directly 1/3 longer than the price two years ago.
Going back to the BBC wine quiz, the correct answer to 'value today' is: £4,500 per box. That's an average of £375 per bottle. This is the retail price in the UK market at the end of July 2003.
Subsequently, the price of 82 Lafite soared all the way, and by 2006 it was already 716 pounds, which means that if you want to buy a bottle of 82 Lafite, you need to pay nearly 8,000 yuan!
Going back to the Guardian's list of 10 Investment Grade Wines, the 1982 Lafite was priced at £8,588 in June 2006, with a bottle averaging around £716. From June 2001 to June 2006, the appreciation amounted to 160 per cent.
"In 2007, it was 1,104 pounds, and when converted into today's yuan, it will take tens of thousands of yuan." Liu added, "Thomas Red, chairman of the American "Reader's Digest" group, commissioned Sotheby's auction house to auction part of the private wine cellar collection in New York on September 7, 2007, a total of 487 batches of 5,477 bottles, including a case of 1982 Lafite, and finally sold for $26,887, which was about 13,258 pounds at the exchange rate at the time, and an average of about 1,104 pounds per bottle." ”
Needless to say, there are many people who know about it, because the growth in the future is really terrifying.
Until 2009, 82 Lafite reached a terrifying 2,083 pounds, that is, a bottle of wine less than a liter is worth about 22,000 yuan!
According to a research report published by Liv-ex, a case of 1982 Lafite traded at a record price of £25,000 on 30 November 2009, with a bottle averaging £2,083.
Liv-ex statistics show that from £2,613 on December 31, 1999 to £24,000 on November 30, 2009, Lafite grew by 857% in 1982, becoming the commodity with the highest return on investment in the UK market in the first decade of the 21st century, surpassing British American Tobacco, the best performer in the UK stock market, and surpassing gold.
In 2010, in just one year, 82 Lafite had climbed to £3,600 a bottle, and it took nearly 40,000 yuan to buy.
Zach Auction House sold 12 bottles of 1982 Lafite at the New York Steakhouse for $58,080, with an average of $4,840 per bottle. The steakhouse near Wall Street is the venue for "Lunch with Warren Buffett", and I am afraid that this "stock god" has to admit: Lafite in 1982 is the most bullish "blue chip"!
Go to the Bordeaux index to check the latest price of Lafite in 1982, and the results show that a box is 43,200 pounds, and a bottle is an average of 3,600 pounds!
"Haha, everyone, it's funny, my old Gu is a rough person, I don't know what wine is, if it wasn't for my son telling me the value of this wine, I'm afraid I would have drunk it as a sweet drink!" Gu De immediately said with a smile.
Communicating with people, speaking skills are the most elegant, although Gu De is an official and a deputy mayor, but in front of these people, he does not dare to hold up.
"If you want to say that you know the most about wine here, I'm afraid it belongs to Liu Sanshao, I remember once going to Liu's house as a guest, and there were many kinds of famous wines that Brother Wanlong took out at that time, and 82 Lafite was one of them." Sun Yuelong, who was on the side, said with a smile.
At this time, Sun Yuelong had already lost the sluggishness of the previous days, and his spirit was as high as a young man.
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone looked at Liu Suyun curiously, they absolutely did not have the slightest doubt about Sun Yuelong's words, not that Sun Yuelong's words were authoritative, but that the Liu family really lacked anything.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Liu Suyong knew that he had to say a few words, so he said: "All of you here are my seniors, and I can come here today with a learning attitude." As for the wine, I know a little bit, but to be honest, most of the foreign wine is not the taste, but the taste, which is especially obvious in our China, in the eyes of most people, foreign goods are good, especially expensive foreign goods, but it is undeniable that the purpose of rare is not divided into countries, regardless of region. ”
Everyone wanted to hear what Yoo had to say.
"Take 82 Lafite as an example, from 22 pounds in 1983 to 3600 pounds in 2010, a bottle of 1982 Lafite netted 3578 pounds, with a "Moore's Law" like growth rate of nearly 163 times! Let's say you bought a case (12 bottles) of 1982 Lafite for £255 in 1983 and now you're netting £42,945! If you had bought 3 boxes (36 bottles) of 1982 Lafite for £765 and now you have netted £128835, which is about 1314309 RMB at the exchange rate on July 11, 2010, you would easily become a millionaire! If you gritted your teeth and bought 23 boxes (276 bottles) of 1982 Lafite for £5,865, you would now make a net profit of £987735, or about 10076371 yuan, and you have become a multi-millionaire! As for the current price of Lafite in 1982 in China, according to the data released by the China Imported Wine Industry Summary Conference, the retail price of a bottle of Lafite in 1982 in the Chinese market has exceeded 60,000 yuan, which means that if you put the 23 boxes of Lafite in 1982 in 2010, you will be a multimillionaire with a fortune of 16,560,000 yuan! Château Lafite has only 103 hectares of vineyards and an annual production of only about 200,000 bottles, so I wonder how many bottles of Lafite in 1982 are left in the world? All we know is that every time someone opens a bottle of Lafite 1982, the price of the rest of the Lafite in the world rises by a few percentage points. After Liu Suyun finished speaking, his eyes looked at Gu De.