{"id":12264,"date":"2015-07-13T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=12264"},"modified":"2015-07-13T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T15:58:04","slug":"5-32-per-grape-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/5-32-per-grape-berry","title":{"rendered":"\u00a35.32 per grape berry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P9083705-001.jpg\" alt=\"cost of grape berry\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P9083705-001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P9083705-001-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P9083705-001-400x252.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Top wines are very expensive these days. It must make it tricky for anyone dealing with the production side: a small mistake could prove costly. You can&#8217;t afford to discard too many barrels of Grand Cru Burgundy, and you probably don&#8217;t want to be too picky in sorting the fruit.<\/p>\n<p>I did a few back of the envelope calculations about the sums involved, to get an idea of the cost of each grape berry that goes into an expensive wine. I chose the most expensive current(ish)DRC wine available by the bottle on Berry Bros &amp; Rudd&#8217;s website: it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbr.com\/products-19066-2010-la-tache-domaine-de-la-romanee-conti\">2010 La Tache<\/a>, at \u00a33328 per bottle.<\/p>\n<p>So, working on the following assumptions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.6 g per berry<\/li>\n<li>750 litres of wine per tonne of grapes (1000 kg)<\/li>\n<li>therefore 1 kg grapes produce one bottle<\/li>\n<li>therefore 625 grapes per bottle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This means that each grape that goes into this bottle is worth <strong>\u00a35.32<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is worth less to the winery than this (retailer&#8217;s margin and taxes take up a good slice of the purchase price), but it&#8217;s still a lot of money that&#8217;s being dealt with in the vineyard and winery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top wines are very expensive these days. It must make it tricky for anyone dealing with the production side: a small mistake could prove costly. You can&#8217;t afford to discard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12266,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions\/12266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}