Comments on: Chateau Latour to halt futures – what do you think??

By: Francesca

Francesca — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:37:26 +0000

PS. After some consideration, I realize that Château Latour will pocket a LOT of money, because they won’t sell at the less expensive primeur prices.

They will decide when and how much Latour will enter the market. This is great for controlling supply and demand.

Now, will those who like to speculate hold a grudge?

By: Ryan mullins

Ryan mullins — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:31:11 +0000

Dr. V, great use of the onion stock “man on the street photos.”

On Latour, yawn, Latour is a wine unicorn that only exists in legends at this point. They could say they were going to send all future wine produced at their estate to be aged in Newt Gingrich’s moon colony and I would still be challenged to care less.

By: RobinC

RobinC — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:39:28 +0000

It sounds as thought the ramifications of this are unclear but scary for those in the wine business. I guess this is why Francois Pinault is a billionaire.

By: Christian Jessen

Christian Jessen — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:37:44 +0000

When will the wine world understand that en Primeur has little to no relevance to the finished product in Bordeaux ? When will Mr Parker halt evaluating wines that are not finished ? Why does a winery such as Château Latour come up with this idea now ? How many more of such “heretic” questions do you need ?

By: Francesca

Francesca — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:18:02 +0000

I would not buy an unfinished wine, unless I tasted it myself and could form an opinion regarding it’s possible qualitative evolution.

By: Dave Erickson

Dave Erickson — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:14:41 +0000

Jim Budd seems to think it's a good idea.