Why is Gaja's wine so expensive??

[Botafogo]

Steve, "ready to drink on release" does NOT mean "every bit at good" as a well cellared traditional wine and you know it.

There is no free lunch: fast food vinificaton gets you completed different results than the sort of aromas, textures and flavors you get in a ten to twenty year old Bordeaux, Barolo or Rioja from an old school producer.

We always tell folks looking for Jordan Cab that they have said two things from the day they opened the winery: "We are the Chateau Lafitte of California" and "It's ready to drink as soon as we release it" and only ONE of those can be true....

Roberto