The annual offer of Château Musar is here, and The Wine Company of Colchester has again given us some very generous discounts. I never recommend wine as an investment, partly because I believe it is for drinking rather than money-making, and also because I don’t want to be blamed for you losing your life savings. But I would point out that some of the older vintages of Musar are now going for ridiculous sums, such as almost £1,500 per bottle for the 1956, and £145 even for the 1978. This is a wine that just goes on improving. The days when you could pick it up for, say, £5 a bottle are very long gone.
The Hochar family have decided to hold back the most recent vintage — the 2006 — which they think needs more time to mature, and I suspect they are right. So TWC are offering three older vintages, all of them different, all of them excellent.
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