My guess is that 2014 refers to when the vines were planted, I see the earliest review on the website is 2023. Re the current vintage it’s probably 2024 as it’s a light wine and I imagine best drunk young. Just surprised I haven’t noticed it before, as we live just outside the Marcillac appellation.
If you like mansois, the Marcillac co-op"s Exception is a few notches above the regular Marcillac.
I think it’s like any form of collecting - people will pay high prices for items that they covet for their collection. The wine is for admiring rather than for drinking. 
See also watches and rare LPs for example.
I was on Discogs the other day looking for the vinyl LP of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” and some of the asking prices are silly - up to €20K for a “test pressing”:
https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/2890771906
Or up to £3k for a mint copy of the original 1973 release (which very annoyingly I used to own and was one of the LPs I gave to a charity shop when I moved to Turks & Caicos!) 
Although I have a copy of DS, I was a bit young to have bought a first pressing 
Sadly I wasn’t! I also saw the first Star Wars movie in the cinema (Birmingham Odeon) when it first came out! 
Come to think of it I also saw 2001 A Space Odyssey on its original UK release.
I expect others here can beat that easily though, I am far from being the Oldest Resident.
Anyway I really don’t need another copy of DSOTM, I have it on CD, SACD and BluRay (Dolby Atmos)!
The summer before Star Wars was released, I stayed in Matmata the Tunisian Saharan troglodyte village where much of it was filmed, Before going there, we were unaware of the film connection, so were very surprised to arrive at the ‘hotel’ and see some Star Wars promo photos on the cave wall. Few if any of the locals had ever seen a film and so didn’t really understand what all those Americans had been doing with their strange machines
Nearly half a century on it’s become a tourist resort, but back in the day it was very basic indeed and looked like this.
Edit; returning to wine (sort of) :-
My other memory of Matmata is that the very basic shop that sold everything needed had a pile of terracotta amphorae, whose design was probably little changed since Roman times, though these were sold for storing water, rather than wine making.
I think I still have that. Should I look for you? Have a cupboard of vinyl of that sort of era that no idea what to do with as putting things on LBC takes so much time.
Well that’s a very kind thought - not sure of the logistics of getting it here, and to be honest I don’t really need it, as mentioned I already have copies in other formats.
Ah DSOTM with my first hifi amp - a Texan kit. Even though I never got both channels working (dc coupled). Still sounded wonderful.
Funnily enough I listened to it all the way through the other night
Though (as is typical with YT) no info was given about the audio stream and even if it were the Bluetooth speakers I have on the computer here probably don’t do it justice - though they are supposed to be a half decent pair (PreSonus Eris E3.5 BT).
At home listening is an Audiolab 8000A (arguably in need of a re-cap as it is 35+ years old and definitely needs the “quick hack” replacement RCA inputs revising to a more permanent repair) feeding a pair or Ruark Talisman II’s - but I no longer have any good quality sources to feed them.
The computer has a pair of Teac monitors - probably LS 300 (it’s been a while since I bought them - though not as far back as the Talismans, early late 1990’s I guess). they were bought from “Music Matters” on the Hagley road in Birmingham. These days they are driven by a SMSL SA-50 TDA7492 based class D amp and Fosi Q5 DAC.
Sorting that out is a retirement project.
No Qobus? As a teen I spent a lot of Saturdays in Brum’s Hurst St looking for components. I’m using a Leak Stereo 20 amp from the early sixties. I do have a couple of projects to sort out - a winter job. A 300b amp heavy enough but psu a real back breaker to lift. Both packed with big transformers/chokes. Also have a VFET thing with devices originally used in places like lift control systems. Gives a valve like sound but with lots of bass heft. What was this thread about?
These bottles aren’t cheap
PreSonus are quite good as computer speakers though probably designed more for music mixing than relaxed hifi listening.
I have some PreSonus Eris 5 active speakers that I used for video mixing - I also had a PreSonus sub which was OK for a few years until it died suddenly - with no prospect of getting it repaired at an economic price as the UK distributors charge £90 + VAT per hour, and Presonus won’t release their service manuals so doing it myself wasn’t an option either. So it went to the tip.
I’m temporarily running my computer sound out into the hifi system - Musical Fidelity M2si amp, Q Acoustics Concept 30 speakers. Sources are an Audiolab 6000 CDT CD transport and Audalytic AH90 DAC, and my most recent addition Rega Planar 3 with Audio Technica AT-CM95E cartridge and Musical Fidelity V90-LPS phono preamp.
I was thinking about buying an old Audiolab 8000A (I owned one in the early 2000s) but the need for recapping put me off. Also IIIRC their circuit boards are prone to overheating.
I owned a couple of different Musical Fidelity amps that doubled for burger grills. Sounded good too
I think that would have been the old ones (A series?) that ran in Class A mode!
The M2si is Class A/B so runs quite cool.
Never really been into “valve sound”, at least not in a hi-fi amp; they have their uses for stage work/guitars etc but it’s a long time since I did any stage sound.
I’m somewhat sceptical about re-capping for the sake of it though I have the slight advantage of an LCR meter which will tell me whether components are in spec or not. But it’s easy to create more problems than are solved.
The biggest problem with the 8000A (IMO) is the rubbish RCA inputs that they used which almost all become brittle and shatter with time. You can still get replacements on eBay (the situation is not helped that they are a funny pitch with is difficult to source) but a full set is not cheap - I have some waiting to install but I managed to bodge some new ones into place so, for now, the job is not urgent.
I’ve just noticed I have some JBL Control One monitors here - forgot about those. Currently connected to a Pulse PLA300 power amp - that combination will go loud despite the diminutive size of the speakers. The amp is more a stage tool though and I really need to hack it so that the fan does not run all the time.
TBH I would say that “computer speakers” and “relaxed hi-fi listening” are at odds with each other.
Though I have always tried to get “above average” components I have, equally, kept well clear of audiophile (or is that audiophool) diminishing returns territory.
Yes it’s certainly possible to go there if you have the budget for it.
e.g. Audioquest Dragon Zero speaker cable at £46,000 and upwards for a pair…
Oh that is ridiculous (but not quite as mad as gold plated mains cables).
The Nordost Valhalla stuff that you posted first is a snip at half the price.
79 strand oxygen free (and that is debatable) is my go-to speaker cable when I’m in “Hi Fi” mode - but 2.5mm2 mains flex is fine by me if necessary.
Fascinating, but can you drink any of the above ? 
No, but I can still walk straight after enjoying the hi-fi for a couple of hours 
Not sure I could’ve done that after a Pink Floyd gig at M/c University nearly sixty years ago. OTOH it was only 6/-0 d admission which is cheaper than most hi-fi (think I’ve got that pre-decimal format right, but seldom use it nowadays).
Not wishing to be contentious (moi ?! ) or advocate consumption of illegal substances, but it does beg the question of whether or not a small amount of certain illegal substances would enhance one’s appreciation and memory of the Pink Floyd more than mega bucks of hi-fi equipment.
Disclaimer: this house is clean since we bought it thirteen years ago, and this body has been clean for thirty years, or is it forty now? S–t! - I can’t remember
Dunno but I never understood constellations until I had a certain amount of “help” 
