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...trademark. Since its launch, the Montblanc pen has revolutionized the industry, elevating beautifully crafted writing instruments to designer status in the ever growing luxury stratosphere. The most expensive model, the limited-edition Meisterstück Solitaire Royal, is decorated with 4,810 pavé diamonds (the metric height of Mont Blanc). A version of that pen entered the 1994 Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive fountain pen in the world. For more modest fans like Ernest Hemingway, however, the standard Montblanc model served the purpose well enough...
...biggest. It dates back 60 years and has an annual production of over 4 million bottles, but it has deliberately kept a low profile. "We never tried to become well-known," says director Jean-Claude Colson. Palmer makes a Blanc de Blancs (100% pure Chardonnay) Champagne for Sainsbury's in the U.K., but otherwise sells mainly to restaurants and a roster of regular clients who include locals looking for a reasonably priced, high-quality bottle. Closer to Epernay is Beaumont des Crayères, www.champagne-beaumont.com, described by British wine writer Hugh Johnson as "a small outstanding cooperative." It has been...
...Indeed, a central concern in Bordeaux is to avoid a fragmentation of the community. "It's almost like a Latin American economy, some very rich and some very poor. This could cause a revolution," worries Pierre Lurton, who runs two of the most exclusive properties, Château Cheval Blanc in the St. Emilion region and Château d'Yquem, the world-famous sweet white Sauternes. Despite their eye-watering prices, bottles of both are being snapped up by a new breed of very wealthy people in places like China and Russia, as well as by U.S. and other...
...conundrums for Bordeaux is its renown. The region's top wines command investment-banker prices because of their quality and limited supply. These makers have no interest in being associated--even remotely--with down-market plonk. Why would they when Château Cheval Blanc and Château Lafite-Rothschild, for example, are currently selling their 2005 vintage for about $700 a bottle? But producers in the middle aren't happy. They worry that the massive price increases pushed through by the likes of Château Pontet-Canet will give consumers the message that all Bordeaux are expensive. "What does...
...avoid a damaging fragmentation between those who are doing well and those who aren't. "It's almost like a Latin American economy, some very rich and some very poor. This could cause a revolution," worries Pierre Lurton, who runs two of the most exclusive properties, Château Cheval Blanc in the St. Emilion region and Château d'Yquem, the world-famous sweet white Sauternes. Back at Château Pontet-Canet, Tesseron sits down for dinner with his wife Isabelle and a decanter of his house 1996. In the Bordeaux hierarchy, Pontet-Canet isn't one of the very...