What's the difference between a £4500 bottle of wine and a £260 bottle of wine (apart from the price)?

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Just reading this BBC News article

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-48292972

I enjoy wine, but I don't think I've ever tasted any costing more than about £50 a bottle (and I usually go for under £10 plonk).

If I tasted £4500 wine, would I swoon in delight?

Any sommeliers who could enlighten me?

We tried a £30 bottle against a £3.50 Tesco 'red wine' and I preferred the cheapie so I'm pretty sure the £4500 would be wasted on me! It must be rarity and not anything else surely?

Tesco Chateauneuf du Pape isn't bad, come to think of it. Still only £25 though!

Once you pay over £30 a bottle (IMO) you are paying for more than the quality of the wine. The name, the marketing, the tiny plot of land that the grapes have to be cultivated on to have the application name etc.

In the £4.5K bottle you are largely paying for the restaurant mark up, and the scarcity of the wine.

The price reflects the rarity more than anything else, alongside the fact it has a very high rating from a famous US wins critic.

I've had £100 bottles in restaurants before and they have been lovely, but I can't conceive of enjoying a wine enough to pay any more than that (and to be fair I've never paid that much myself for wine)

£4240.00 😆

I love a £4.50 bottle from Tesco. Id get pissed on either so to me, there is no difference apart from the stupidity of the people buying the expensive ones.

I can’t believe this story is true. Having worked in a high-end restaurant they keep the really good stuff under lock and key so you couldn’t serve it accidentally

Good PR for Hawkesmoor me thinks

£260 according to the article. I'm a bit dubious too!

Can't beat a bottle of Ernest and Julio Gallo. 😁

Not the sort of thing you’d quaff during location, location, location is it 😊

Probably mostly to do with the scarcity. I bet almost no-one can reliably distinguish expensive, mid priced and cheaper wine and feel that expensive wine is worth the extra money - eg if offered a choice of a £4500 bottle of wine or a £260 bottle of wine and £4240 cash, I'd take the cash and the cheaper wine every time, surely everyone except very rich people or ultimate connoseurs would?

Meh, if I splash out I might go up to £20 for a really special English sparkler on offer, but honestly, any old cava is fine by me.

Scarcity for sure and restaurant mark-up.

This could be wrong, but someone told me last year:

In the UK, wine-makers pay the same tax/cost for bottles and labelling, so if that costs £3.50 (for example) then a £10 wine will be nicer than a £5 wine as the rest of the cost will go to higher-quality grapes etc.

£4500 for a bottle of wine. Whats it made of.....................the piss of King Midas?!

Can't beat a bottle of Ernest and Julio Gallo. 😁
Yup I’m the same a fiver rose does me anything else would be wasted on me 😂