‘Glass’ of rare wine sells for almost R50 000

A small bottle of 200-year-old wine sold for a staggering R42 500 at this year’s Nedeburg wine auction.

A 1800 Joubert-Tradauw Jaubert Family Muscat fetched an impressive R42 500 at this year’s Nederburg wine auction on Sunday. The sale of the minute 275ml bottle (just over half a glass) means the sale equates to over R150 000 per litre.

Only six bottles of this 200-year-old vintage are sold each year from a 100-litre French oak barrel in a secret cellar in the Klein Karoo. The barrel is topped up each year.

Cobus Joubert, wine expert says the wine’s rarity accounts for its high price.

“The taste is unbelievable, it is unbelievably complex that it is hard to describe. It is extremely rich, but it has a youthfulness despite it’s age,” he says.

Joubert says the wine is sold mostly to private buyers and wine collectors.

In total, the 2015 Nederburg wine auction, now in its 41st year, recorded a staggering R6,163 million in sales, slightly down from last year’s record of just over R7 million.


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