I Guess Most Of My Friends Know I Like The Occasional Drop Of Red Wine,

for medicinal purposes of course,

but I would have to think twice if it cost as much as this 2004 Block 42’ Cabernet Sauvignon, the Block 42 vines were transported from France to Australia in the 1830s and are now located in South Australia's Barossa Valley, northeast of Adelaide, Penfolds chief winemaker Peter Gago said: 'there is something really magical about the 2004 Block 42 Kalimna Cabernet', Penfolds said the vines are thought to be the oldest continuously producing Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the world,


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!'.