How can two bottles of Bordeaux be worth £226,000?

April 27, 2026

Discovered in a Scottish castle, a brace of magnums of Château Lafite Rothschild 1870 have broken sales records at auction. But why is this wine, drunk by everyone from Thomas Jefferson to James Bond, so prized by collectors?

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