#Champagnemami: Nas Raps About A $3,250 Bottle Of Wine On 'The Pressure'

Someone said Nas’ King’s Disease 2 is adult contemporary music. I’m okay with that. Nas is talking my language. I have no idea what these young rappers are talking about. Depression and Percocet? But I’m on everything that Nas is on. Meal prep me, boo.  

“You searching for qualities that I’m already blessed with.” Yass! Did I give Nas this bar? 

On “The Pressure”  Nas mentions Petrus. I heart a man who knows his wine and spirits. Heyyyyy, Carlton McCoy Jr.  As #champagnemiami, I too know wine. 2 bottles of ’82 Petrus  were purchased for $16,640 U.S. dollars in 2012. In 2019, a ’98 Chateau Petrus  sold for $41,500. Petrus is one the most celebrated wines of Bordeaux, but is it worth the price? 

Here are 5 reasons why a bottle of Petrus costs over $3K.

1. Pertus doesn’t produce a lot of bottles each year.

 There are only 2,500 cases of Petrus produced each year. It’s 0064% of the number of Bordeaux cases produced each year. The extreme rarity makes it pricey.

2. The Pertrus vineyard is old and small.

Most vineyards are about 250 acres, but the vineyard of Petrus is only about 28 acres and mostly Merlot grapes. Their vineyard is the only vineyard in Pomerol, a commune in Southwestern France, which is entirely composed of 1 million-year old thick gravel and 40 million-year old clay soil. This blue clay not only gives the grapes a distinctive quality, but it preserves the moisture of the grapes during dry summers.

3. They take extreme precautions to protect the grapes.

In 1987, the estate experienced an extremely hot summer followed by non-stop rain. To keep the quality of their grapes, they hired a helicopter to hover over the fruits and dry them. To prevent the amount of rain heavily permeating the soil, the estate used plastic sheets to cover the ground in 1992. 

4. There’s only one wine at Petrus.

Other vineyards take their less favorable vines to make multiple wines but not Petrus. They take the rejected grapes and sell them off as generic Pomerol.

5. The best years are the most expensive.

Not all years of Petrus are created equal. The best years of Petrus are 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2009, and 2010. The 12-bottle cases of 1989 and 1990 were sold for $79,000 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Sale of the Great American Collector. On the same day, a 12-bottle case of 1995 Petrus achieved $73,000. A 6-magnum lot of 2005 reached $57,000 during the Vega Sicilia auction at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong in 2019. Lesser years include 1983, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997. Below that are 1973, 1975, 1976, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and the very difficult ones are 1972, 1974 and 1984. In 1965 and 1991, the quality of harvest was so poor that any bottle from this year on the label is a fake.