for medicinal purposes of course,
in case you are in any doubt as to how special the wine is the rare vintage has been encased in specially-designed hand-blown 'ampoule' by famous Australian glass artist Nick Mount, the ampoule has no cork or screw cap, and can only be opened by a trained wine expert, Penfolds’ chief winemaker Peter Gago said that if any buyer wished to drink the exclusive wine, an expert would travel to wherever the buyer was in the world and open and decant the ampoule using bespoke equipment in a special ceremony,
next question, how much? well a normal (albeit limited-edition) bottle of the 2004 Block 42 costs around £400, but that's just for the hoi polloi, for the real drink, one of the 12 bottles expect to pay £109,000 a bottle, if you are thinking of tasting just one glass thats £21,000 for a 150 ml glass, for me I will just stick to a nice bottle of Nuits St Georges, or perhaps the Mont Clair I normally drink, 'Cheers!'.
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