Château Pétrus

Though they, they don't trade often.

So, you know, you could get a six-liter bottle of Petrus, um, and there will be a buyer for that, but it might take several years for you to find someone that's willing to pay, you know, a good, a good price for that six-liter bottle.

That already doesn't have, like, two in their cellar that they need to drink first.

Yeah.

[laughs] One big faker sent me a fax saying, "Uh, why are you worried about fake wine? Even Jesus turned water into wine." [laughs] And I was hoping I could get him into a court in the Bible Belt, [laughs] but I couldn't.

[laughs] One guy had a huge collection of pre-World War II bottles of Petrus, which is one of the best wines in the world, and oversized bottles.

And I bought a bottle of 1921 Petrus in a double magnum, and I opened it up.

God, that tasted like the cheapest wine I've ever had.

And I looked at it, and there was an article about this wine, about how it was found and who found it, et cetera, and it was rated 100 out of 100.

We even found the place where he bought the bottle, and we found where he had the labels printed.

And [laughs] he poured in '57 wine, put in some juice that made it taste old and smell old.

I said, "What he did was put moose piss in it for me." [laughs] And we took this bottle to, uh, Petrus, and they said they never made big bottles pre-1945.

My impression is there is a difference, as you mentioned, between opinion and, I don't know if it's the right word, evaluation.

But like, you would expect the wine taster to all agree that the Château Pétrus is of better quality objectively than a much cheaper wine, but it doesn't mean it have to be better suiting your taste than the other.

Is that the variation?

variation?Absolutely.

And so there is kind of a journey towards a growl and a mission to, oh, you know, there's something you want to express.

Everyone wants to try a Petrus or a Screaming Eagle.

When they try it, you're like, oh shit, I'm not going to pay that much for that.

But at the same time, when you try it, you're like, fuck, it's really good.

...

I brought her a 1976, uh, Petrus and she had no idea.

And I threw it out.

I threw it in the trash.

It's gotta go...

You, you should know.

What does a bottle of '76 Petrus go for?

I...

Yes, it is drinkable.

Yes, it's very nice, but it is not the same as a real Château Latour, or a Pétrus, or a Cheval Blanc.

It is not.

It cannot be.

Let's drink the...

Let's figure out if I can afford the Romanee-Contis, the Petrus, the Screaming Eagles, all these, uh, gems of the wine world.

I hope I can afford it before I get too old and I can't drink too much.

So, you know, you have, uh, this range of people, so definitely by age demographic.

the only winners here, aren't they? Yeah.

I mean, there'll be trillions, millions and billions of pounds spent for these companies, these barristers who will be, you know, picking Petrus for the lunch, you know.

Sam, we're going to discuss all of that coming up shortly, including should there be asterisks next to Manchester City's Premier League trophies, including during the Pep Guardiola years, because that is the argument that the platform was built then.

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