Best Wine
After last time having given you a bit of fatherly advice regarding the right hotels we now come to the next point – and all those to whom wine is nothing more than fermented grape juice should now close the browser and go and pour a cola down your throat – wines.
There really is nothing more dispiriting than to dine in a hotel of the style which I’m used to, say some hotel in Paris, and upon questioning the waiter regarding the house wine not to have at least one wine offered which falls within my list of the best wine in the world.
Yes it’s quite true, thus can one recognise a good hotel – I mean, the best wines in the world do naturally have their price – but they’re worth every penny, and really who should know that better than I?
The Best Wine – EVER!
#1 Chateau Petrus – an extremely good wine, that one can enjoy equally with dessert or with cheese – and just to be alone in a hotel room with this little darling is in itself an experience. A bottle of this wine from its 1961 vintage will set you back around 14,990€, and thus belongs in among my front runners.
#2 Chataeu Ceval Blang – not all, but some of the older vintages are most drinkable and set you back around 10,000€ a bottle. I always keep a few in my cellar for anyone who fancies a drop, and the really cheap years go for around 100€ a bottle. But if you’re going to do that then honestly you may as well pop down to the nearest off-licence and get yourself a bottle of Californian red.
#3 Château Lafite Rothschild – a truly excellent wine while yet being affordable also for your run-of-the mill wage slaves, and while that does make it almost boring, still it’s a Frenchman through and through, a true Bordeaux, and it’s simply unfortunate that there are also some rather cheap vintages. The most expensive bottle, and I’m afraid the only one which is known as being really good, costs around 11,500€ and would have been bottled in 1899. A real party wine!
#4 Domaine de la Romanée Conti - from the French Burgund, it’s really my fun choice, but if in doubt then the Burgunder just pips the Bordeaux price-wise, at 7,300€ a bottle.
#5 Château Le Pin – 1989, 6,290€ a bottle, also a Bordeaux; and with that we pretty much come to the end of the list – all the other wines of which I’m aware fall far short of the 5,000 USD mark and as such are for me simply unacceptable.
There’s just one more wine that I’d like to add to my list of the best wine of the world, and that’s the Kreuzberger wine from Berlin – every year very few bottles are produced and despite my excellent standing with the mayor of that city it’s only the other year that I finally managed to get hold of a bottle. The normal price must really be exorbitant – it’s unfortunately not generally known – and at that even I begin to perspire slightly.
However it might be better to start off instead with the first wine on my list of the best wine of the world.
by the way: wine always tastes best at any of the romantic hotels in Paris
