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Downgrade to mid; I'd argue that the 'cult wine' thing is largely a local US phenomenon - some of the right-bank Bordelais growers and elsewhere may be joining in the fun, but they're largely selling to US buyers.
And 'cult' implies a lack of public recognition, IMO the Medoc first growths are not cult wines, they're long-recognised 'classic wines'. And a key part of the cult wine thing seems to be to drive up prices by restricting production to a few hundred cases, whereas the first growths produce 1000's if not 10,000's of cases. A random Google turns up http://www.wineloverspage.com/oxford/cult07.phtml a lot of which I can agree with. FlagSteward14:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Although we do not tend to name them cult wines over here, I still think the five first growths belong to that category. Recently tasted one... Good, but that's it... I just do not see why they cost sometimes as much as 500%+ more as a good table wine from the same region. In my opinion, this gives them 'cult' status. Château Pétrus (no first growth, by the way) has its reputation from it's small area of growth and the careful tending of the vines... Maybe there the price might be justified to a certain point. Same goes in part for Romanée Conti, but this again I would consider to be a cult wine for its deliberate scarcity and mode of delivery (only one of it in a box of 12). This makes it the most expensive wine ever. Definitely cult. --Tprosser (talk) 11:42, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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