No longer does the most expensive wine in the world come from French Burgundy, but from the Bordeaux region. It is the Liber Pater, which still exceeds the Romanée Conti in price. Loïc Pasquet, the Bordeaux winegrower behind Liber Pater has released a new label, Denarius. “I wanted to make something affordable,” Pasquet says ironically. While it has no intention of surpassing Domaine La Romanée Conti in terms of awards, it is still ahead of the 1855-classified First Growths. “Liber Pater is extremely expensive and rare. Denarius places wines from its own rootstocks on the tables of French restaurants. This is actually very affordable to be able to taste pre-phylloxera wine,” Pasquet explains, making these wines as they used to be made with vines from the same era. He returns to the roots of the Bordeaux wine region and then to the mid-19th century with peaks towards the 1850s and does so by using old vineyard management techniques (mixed crops and trained vines, tillage with a mule , organic sprays and very high planting densities of 20,000 vines/ha) along with extremely old original vines. Liber Pater claims to provide the historic taste of Bordeaux wines.
