エサキホンテンでSea Smokeの2003 Botellaが残り2本になっています。価格は税込み5980円。Wine-Searcherで検索するとBotellaの平均価格は2002が109ドル,2004が129ドル,2005が98ドル,2006が103ドル,2007が80ドルという高踏ぶり。しかも2003は見つかりません。ちなみにWine Advocate誌でのレイティングは90ポイント。コメントは結構笑っちゃいます。

The 2003 Pinot Noir Botella is awkward and disjointed aromatically, displaying notes of herbs, the sushi seaweed wrap called nori, and strawberry and cherry fruit. Impressive in the mouth, it exhibits sweet currant, cherry, kirsch, smoke, earth, and licorice. Give it another six months of bottle age, and drink it over the following 5-7 years. This wine was bottled about six weeks before I tasted it, which is usually a difficult period for many wines, even those bottled naturally. In any event, this up-and-coming Santa Barbara County producer demonstrates considerable potential.


どうしてこの書き方で90点?という感じですがポテンシャルを感じ取ったのでしょう。ともかく,レアかつ市場価格よりずっと安いという点では価値が高いので,お好きな方は急がれるのが吉かと。