Wine prices for the most famous growers is now totally insane. When I was a grad student making all of $400/month in the 1970's I could afford on very rare occasions to buy 2nd Growth Bordeaux wines and became a big fan of the St. Estephe chateaus (Montrose and Cos d'Estournel, in particualr). Sometimes these were from the 1960's and at their peaks. And I was paying $15 to $20 a bottle back then. Wow. Now add at least a zero.

I have had the luck to have some glasses of the First Growths over the years as well. Other people paid for it, though. Most of them have been outrageously nice.

I can no longer afford those wines even though I make a lot more money now than I did as a grad student, but I do have a 1989 C. Montrose in my cellar that I have owned for over 20 years. I hope that it is as good as the 1988 C. Cos d'Estournel that my wife and I drank a few years ago that we bought at the same time. It was VERY nice. It was like a party in your mouth. I saved the bottle as a momento.