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A comment on The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016). Parent comment

Re:The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016) by DanBC on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:53PM (#13611360)
> Scarcity, collectibility, buying as investments, and mostly the novelty factor of something you've never tried

None of those are "what it tastes like".

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Re:The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016) by lukas099 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:08PM (#13611477)
Yes they are. Scarcity - it is hard to find something that tastes like it. Novelty - it tastes like something you've never tasted before.
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Re:The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016) by geofft on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:28PM (#13612027)
That quote was about the difference between a $40 bottle and a $ludicrous bottle. Across the $8 - $40 range, there's definitely a meaningful difference in what it tastes like.
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Re:The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016) by barrkel on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:47PM (#13611761)
The most expensive drink I've bought by volume was a '72 to '74 aged sake, and that was most certainly for it scarcity: and because nothing else tastes like it.
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