Originally Posted by
5DMarkIIguy
Costco is selling vertical premier grand cru and new vintage every year. Buy and store in the cellar. It is always sub 400 for all vintage every year. Stock up, the 1995 MR was only 270 a few years ago. Just because someone refuse to pay $5000 for a $270 bottle of wine doesnīt make them persona non grata in the Maldives. They cannot point out something so egregious? If they donīt like the upcharge, they should just shut up and stay home?
St Regis Maldives wine menu is the most overpriced menu I have ever seen in my life. If I can get Harlan at a restaurant for only 2x the cost, there is absolutely no reason these wines should be 10x to 15x the actual price. If you like to pay that much upcharge because itīs the Maldives, no one is stopping you. If someone has a problem with the pricing, there is nothing wrong with them being vocal about it. Why do you criticize their very valid complaints?
First, it would be a very rare restaurant at which one could find Harlan Estate’s even most recently released vintage for a mere 2x the cost. Even our local Mastro’s steakhouse prices the 2012 Harlan at $1500. We should know, as we are on the allocation lists for Harlan, BOND, Colgin, Abreu, Promontory, Hundred Acre, Sine Aqua Non, etc.
Second, the StR Maldives wine menu is the most overpriced menu you’ve ever seen—while you apparently have not yet looked at any of the other wine menus I provided from many of the other top hotels in the Maldives. The Cheval Blanc Rhangelli wine menu is just as pricey if not worse. They all are about as overpriced as each other. So criticizing the prices is fine, but criticizing the one hotel over any other seems patently and hilariously ridiculous.
Third, I find it hilarious that people here in this thread are complaining about prices of the absolutely most expensive wines at a supremely expensive resort when most people would complain about the prices of the same bottles from the wineries. Most Americans do not even spend $400 for a bottle of wine from a store or a winery. So they won’t be considering those wines, anyway. Most of these same people won’t even be paying money to stay at the StR but instead will be using points, so it’s not too difficult to see why the outrage would be so great.
I find this outrage to be pretty ridiculous. You are entitled to find the wine prices ridiculous, and I don’t disagree with you. Of course, the wine prices from the winery can be ridiculous, too, but none are outraged here about those. And of course, every Maldives luxury resort charges the same ridiculous prices for wines, so I find the outrage described here against the St Regis to be ridiculously misplaced. I am entitled to point that out as much as you are entitled to be outraged in the first place.