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Chateau Margaux Luxury Liquidity Is Pricey at $2,400 a Bottle
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A waiter is pouring generous rations of wine in the private dining salon of Chateau Margaux on the left bank of the Gironde estuary in southwestern France. Baccarat crystal schooners are filled to the brim with one of the world’s rarest liquid investments. The costly history of downing Chateau Margaux unfolds.
“Richard the Lionheart would drink anything from our vineyard,” says Corinne Mentzelopoulos, proprietor of Chateau Margaux and custodian of the 80 hectare Bordeaux vineyard’s luxury lore. “Friedrich Engels preferred the 1848 Chateau Margaux. Engels was pretty bloody bourgeois,” she adds with a grin, a question and a raised glass. “An endorsement from Engels. I wonder what the Marxists will make of that?”