Gateway@Cos d'Estournel
Yesterday the price of the 2010 Cos d'Estournel was released and is now available en primeur from Farr Vintners@£2180 a case of 12 ex cellars, so duty and vat will be payable on them if you want to remove them from bond to drink once they are delivery in the first part of 2013. By the time vat and duty at the current rates are added the cost is £2642.06 per case.
In contrast I can buy a bottle of Jean-Pierre Chevallier's excellent 2009 Le Grand Clos Saumur Champigny Château de Villeneuve for 18€including taxes from the property in Souzay-Champigny. For the price of 12 bottles of 2010 Cos I can have 164 bottles of JP's Grand Clos. The lunatics continue to run the asylum!
Château de Villeneuve
To be fair, of course, I could doubtless make similar comparisons between good value, well made wines in the Côtes de Bourg and elsewhere in Bordeaux.
