Why is Gaja's wine so expensive??

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NO, NO, NO! The Port and Bordeaux producers have ALWAYS released at about four years and the trade and / or final consumer aged the wines (for decades in the case of Port).

To me the single most fascinating thing in the book "Wine and War" was how, when the Germans rolled into Paris in 1940, the hotel and restaurant cellars were full of vintages from the 1911 vintage and even lots of wines from the 1890's!!!! The difference is that they had CELLARS, grand, huge, mulileveled cellars underground. AND, they didn't have beancounters screaming at them about return on investment and what else they could do with the money.

After the lawyers, we kill the CPAs, Roberto