According to Robert Louis Stevenson, “wine is bottled poetry.”
It can also be delicious when at its finest and most expensive. The world’s most expensive bottle of red wine is up for sale in Dubai.A 2009 Chateau Margaux is currently retailing for $195,000.
There are a total of six balthazars (12-litre bottles) included in the prestigious limited wine edition that has been created from the wine merchant known as Le Clos. One of these pricey bottles will be showcased at Le Clos’ flagship store located at the Dubai International Airport. The product is set in its own ornate case and is engraved with gold. Aged for more than a century, the 2009 vintage is carefully and lovingly produced at the Château Margaux vineyard, in the sleepy Medoc region in France… north of Bordeaux, to be specific.
In addition to the “liquid gold”, the purchaser will also be treated to a first-class flight to the Château Margaux estate, and the buyers will be taken on a private tour of the cellars and vineyards before being wined and dined by Paul Pontallier, chief winemaker and managing director of the estate.
“We are immensely proud to display this limited edition of the Balthazar of Château Margaux 2009 at our flagship store in Dubai Airport’s Terminal 3,” said Oliver Dixon, head of fine wine at Le Clos. “To be given this honour by Château Margaux underlines Le Clos’ position as a world leader in bringing rare fine wines to market.”
Located on the left bank of the Garonne estuary in the Médoc region, the estate has been occupied since the 12th century. By the beginning of the 18th century, the estate owners boast as many as 265 hectares of land, a third of it devoted to viticulture. Originally weak and pale, the wines had developed into fruity, rich and dark-complexioned liquids. In 1787, Thomas Jefferson noted that Château Margaux was “one of the four vineyards of first-class quality.”
It can also be delicious when at its finest and most expensive. The world’s most expensive bottle of red wine is up for sale in Dubai.A 2009 Chateau Margaux is currently retailing for $195,000.
There are a total of six balthazars (12-litre bottles) included in the prestigious limited wine edition that has been created from the wine merchant known as Le Clos. One of these pricey bottles will be showcased at Le Clos’ flagship store located at the Dubai International Airport. The product is set in its own ornate case and is engraved with gold. Aged for more than a century, the 2009 vintage is carefully and lovingly produced at the Château Margaux vineyard, in the sleepy Medoc region in France… north of Bordeaux, to be specific.
In addition to the “liquid gold”, the purchaser will also be treated to a first-class flight to the Château Margaux estate, and the buyers will be taken on a private tour of the cellars and vineyards before being wined and dined by Paul Pontallier, chief winemaker and managing director of the estate.
“We are immensely proud to display this limited edition of the Balthazar of Château Margaux 2009 at our flagship store in Dubai Airport’s Terminal 3,” said Oliver Dixon, head of fine wine at Le Clos. “To be given this honour by Château Margaux underlines Le Clos’ position as a world leader in bringing rare fine wines to market.”
Located on the left bank of the Garonne estuary in the Médoc region, the estate has been occupied since the 12th century. By the beginning of the 18th century, the estate owners boast as many as 265 hectares of land, a third of it devoted to viticulture. Originally weak and pale, the wines had developed into fruity, rich and dark-complexioned liquids. In 1787, Thomas Jefferson noted that Château Margaux was “one of the four vineyards of first-class quality.”
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