Gonon pricing

[Jeff Grossman]

2018 regular for $137.95.

Raymond Trollat would have fallen out of his shoes at that price for a bottle of St.-Joseph.

 

[Steve Edmunds]

yikes

 

[Rahsaan]

Surely that's the (discounted) case price.

Unreal.

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gonon pricing2018 regular for $137.95.

Raymond Trollat would have fallen out of his shoes at that price for a bottle of St.-Joseph.

somebody is making some extra money. wholesale is set for a retail price of $110.

 

[Odd Rydland]

As the price in Norway is around $50, somebody is making a lot of extra money.

 

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gonon pricing2018 regular for $137.95.

Raymond Trollat would have fallen out of his shoes at that price for a bottle of St.-Joseph.

Raymond Trollat, unless something has changed, is still alive. And his bottles exchange hands for much more than that.

 

[Brian C]

Color me shocked that it’s a KLWM import.

 

[BJ]

Gonon is great, but I don't get that.

 

[Jim Hanlon]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gonon pricing2018 regular for $137.95.

Raymond Trollat would have fallen out of his shoes at that price for a bottle of St.-Joseph.

Raymond Trollat, unless something has changed, is still alive. And his bottles exchange hands for much more than that.

Yeah, no kidding. A bottle of 1989 went for more than $1,500 on WineBid recently. One could have bought almost 10 cases of the wine for that price at release.

 

[Jim Hanlon]

originally posted by BJ:
Gonon is great, but I don't get that.

The Vieilles Vignes, from Trollat's former vines, fetches $500 or more now. I don't sell mine (in part because the retailer I get them from sells them at reasonable pricing, so making a quick profit myself wouldn't feel right), but yikes.

 

[BJ]

I still remember some '94 Trollat mags HDH put out in an offering for $25 apiece - that wasn't that long ago, in the days when those sorts of places hadn't awakened to some of the great classicists like Verset...I missed them by seconds...

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gonon pricing2018 regular for $137.95.

Raymond Trollat would have fallen out of his shoes at that price for a bottle of St.-Joseph.

Raymond Trollat, unless something has changed, is still alive. And his bottles exchange hands for much more than that.

Thanks, Levi. He's 92 now? Lived to see quite a lot of change in his metier.

My jest, of course, was that SJ used to sell for very little. I could not find an actual price quote from 1970 but I did find this issue of "New York" magazine from 1972 with extensive writing about wine, e.g., "A good Cotes du Rhone 1971 need not cost more than $2 a bottle," and the Best Buys section includes, "Hermitage or Cote-Rotie 1967 (below $5)."

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gonon pricing2018 regular for $137.95.

Raymond Trollat would have fallen out of his shoes at that price for a bottle of St.-Joseph.

Raymond Trollat, unless something has changed, is still alive. And his bottles exchange hands for much more than that.

Thanks, Levi. He's 92 now? Lived to see quite a lot of change in his metier.

My jest, of course, was that SJ used to sell for very little. I could not find an actual price quote from 1970 but I did find this issue of "New York" magazine from 1972 with extensive writing about wine, e.g., "A good Cotes du Rhone 1971 need not cost more than $2 a bottle," and the Best Buys section includes, "Hermitage or Cote-Rotie 1967 (below $5)."

$2 in 1972 converts to a little under $13 today, so not a lot of movement there, but yes, cote rotie and hermitage are not to be found for ~$32.

 

[Pavel Tchichikov]

originally posted by BJ:
Gonon is great, but I don't get that.

get what, the pricing?
that's not specific to gonon though.

 

[Tristan Welles]

and now...$122 super-cuvée Beaujolais.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Tristan Welles:
and now...$122 super-cuvée Beaujolais.

80 Euro over here. Still yikes.

 

[MarkS]

People forget money is sloshing around like water (perhaps even more than water judging Lake Mead's levels)and water lifts all boats.

 

[Karen Goetz]

originally posted by MarkS:
People forget money is sloshing around like water (perhaps even more than water judging Lake Mead's levels)and water lifts all boats.

Marc, (intended in good spirits) I get your reference, but.... not all boats. Depends, I guess, on how you define "boats." Boats as the cost of wines perhaps.
From my perspective, sitting my own tidy boat, money is sloshing around only in lakes that have been dammed and private oceans leaving many more boats on dry land, not lifted because they are not allowed access to those waters. (i.e., NYTimes article today re trees/greenery in wealthy areas of cities).

 

[Keith Levenberg]

In that context "boats" means prices, not people, and while plenty of that is going on, the Gonon price escalation predates the money-printers going brrrrr.

 

[Karen Goetz]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
In that context "boats" means prices, not people, and while plenty of that is going on, the Gonon price escalation predates the money-printers going brrrrr.[/quote

Yeah, got that and it inspired my perusal.... but that is interesting that Gonon price escalation started before the buzz saw of $printers....