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We are only a tiny element of the chain.

If one element breaks, the chain is broken

and you cannot reach the glass of wine.

Wine is the expression of place,

and Burgundy is the ultimate

example of this.

It's a wine for obsessives.

Someone who really knows their stuff

can tell you the difference, blind,

between something that was grown here

and something that was grown 40 feet away.

-It's really good.

-Look at where the fill is.

F***ing incredible.

This is probably insane.

This is where I go crazy.

This is my crazy... This is my crazy spot.

I get nervous

and my blood pressure goes up.

It's the ultimate existential art form.

It's living in a bottle. It's alive.

And then you drink it

and you absorb it into your body.

It's art that becomes

part of you, literally.

Well, that's Ponsot,

who's a great producer.

-Hey, Carl.

-Hello!

How you doing, babe?

I'm good.

A lot of good sh*t here.

You have a few drinks and then you come

here and spend 100 grand on wine.

This is the place.

This is the place, yeah.

They're very, very reasonably priced.

Where can you get a '61 white

for 600 bucks?

From 1961?

This is crazy time.

-Jef?

-Yeah.

1990 Romane-Conti.

This is maybe one of the greatest bottles

ever made of wine.

Right here.

-20 grand maybe?

-20 grand.

-He knows his prices.

-20 grand for the bottle.

And you want this.

If you like wine, you need this,

you want this.

But you have to decide,

do you want this or do you want a Prius?

Yes, exactly! Trade it for a Prius.

When we drink wine we don't look

at the price value, you know.

We look at what we get from the wine.

The excitement, you know.

The passion, the way they make

the wine and everything.

It's not about the price of the wine,

you know. Some people...

Rudy was very generous with everybody.

I had some of the greatest

Romane-Contis with him, you know,

I will ever have.

Put on your best Burgundy face.

Who wants to drink wine?

At the time when all this was happening,

there was a huge demand for old fine wine.

As a whole, Burgundy very quickly went

from affordable to unobtainable.

I guess you can call it the Rudy era.

It's very fine sediment, so stand them up

and then put the ice.

The economy was booming back then.

...standing up, not leaning down.

There was such tiny quantities

of Burgundy worldwide.

There wasn't enough to satisfy the thirst.

It was all about liquidity

and it continues to be.

Any time there's tremendous

volatility in a market,

and all asset classes move the same.

Dave, your go-to cellar's pretty good.

You've got some good stuff in here.

So many of my friends

in finance collect wine

because when you watch stocks

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