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The prices you cite are for rarity, not for quality.
Now, if we talk about retail prices and bottles of recent vintages that are $150 (Joseph Phelps Baccus comes to mind), you are paying for a wine of exceptional quality and a small bit of rarity. To even get a bottle of Baccus, you have to be a bit "in the know" and connected with the vineyard.
Anyway, the day my wife an I were engaged, I bought 2 1994, 1.5l bottle of Joseph Phelps Cabernet, at around $400 each. We opened one that night to celebrate. My sister and her husband are out to dinner with us and he coyly asks: "Can you really tell the difference between a $20 bottle of wine and a $100 bottle of wine?". I wanted to snatch the goddam glass away from the SOAB!
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James
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