For the wine investor, absolutely! But for the wine drinker, it's much more complicated. Hugh Johnson (the world’s best-selling wine writer) declares in his 2008
Pocket Wine Book that, "Vintages used to be really crucial but the difference now is not so much in quality as reputation, because the most famous ones are traded up to ridiculous prices. The reasons people buy a particular wine are complex but have a lot to do with snobbism.
"If you sold a nonvintage bordeaux nobody would buy it. It would be just as good, but it would not have the romance and the interest.”
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