Pétrus: The World’s Most Expensive Merlot Shouldn’t Exist

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Pétrus has no grand château, just a modest farmhouse you could drive past without noticing. It has no classification, Pomerol famously refuses to rank its wines. It's made from Merlot, the grape wine snobs love to mock. And yet a single bottle routinely costs thousands of euros, making it one of the most expensive wines on Earth. This is the full story: the Roman-named vineyard, the formidable widow in legendary hats who simply decided her wine deserved First Growth prices, the partnership that conquered America (and the Kennedy White House), the catastrophic 1956 frost and the gamble that saved the vines, the secret buttonhole of 40-million-year-old blue clay, and the bottle that spent 14 months in space.

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00:00 Introduction

01:09 Quick settings about Pétrus

02:21 The birth of Pétrus

03:47 Madame Loubat, the widow who believed in Pétrus

06:23 The great age of Pétrus