Lafite

The trouble is that the local red wine could be Chilean wine imported in bulk plastered with a local label. And the Lafite could be made of the local juice.

可问题是，所谓的当地红酒，有可能是贴上了当地商标的大批进口智利葡萄酒，而所谓的拉菲，可能则是用当地的原料仿造的。

the reputation of Lafite, for instance, was ruined when the 1884 vintage turned mouldy after only a couple of years in bottle.

例如拉菲酒的声誉就因为1884年份酒在装瓶后仅仅几年就发霉变质而严重受损。

When naive consumers always drink the fake Lafite, they find the real one tastes funny.

如果天真的消费者喝到的总是假拉菲，他们就会觉得真拉菲味道怪异。

Earlier this year, the London merchants Bordeaux Index recorded a 30 per cent fall in Lafite unit sales compared with 2010.

今年早些时候，伦敦酒商Bordeaux Index的拉菲单位售价较2010年下滑了30%。

In the second, a woman said she and her husband had been given a bottle of 1976 Lafite many years ago and her husband had died.

在第二封邮件中，有位女士说很多年前有人送她和她丈夫一瓶1976年的拉菲红酒，现在她丈夫已经去世了。

Will the Chinese character'8'boost the already high prices of Lafite?

中文数字“八”会让拉菲葡萄酒业已不菲的价格进一步飙升吗？

Prices for Ch â teau Lafite Rothschild, the market leader, have doubled in the past six months.

作为市场领袖，罗斯柴尔德拉菲堡在过去六个月价格已翻了一番。

By creating this « COLLECTION », DBR ( Lafite) has demonstrated its determination to offer real classic Bordeaux wines for immediate pleasure.

通过推出该“特选”系列佳酿，拉菲集团以此表明其决心，要为人们提供真正经典可以日常享用的波尔多美酒。

With limited supplies of Lafite and surging prices, other Premier Crus are increasingly in demand.

由于拉菲的限量供应和价格飞涨，对其他酒庄的需求也在不断增加。

So does antique looking 1982 Lafite served at super expensive restaurants.

在价格极其高昂的餐厅里出售古董级的1982年拉菲酒，也是如此。

In early July, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. began advance sales of Chateau Lafite Rothschild's 2009 Bordeaux at $18, 000 a case.

月初，芝加哥零售商兼拍卖行HartDavisHartWineCo.开始以每箱18,000美元的价格预售拉菲罗斯希尔庄园（ChateauLafiteRothschild）2009年波尔多葡萄酒。

The index is now only 15 per cent off its peak last summer and certain Lafite Rothschild vintages are at all-time highs.

Liv-ex100指数目前仅比去年夏季的峰值水平低15%，某些罗斯柴尔德拉菲（LafiteRothschild）酒的价格正处于历史高位。

His argument: Lafite has spectacularly outperformed all assets, even other fine wines, which in turn has caused people to hoard the wines.

他的观点是，拉菲酒的价格已远远超过所有资产，甚至超过其它上等葡萄酒，因此很多人开始囤积拉菲酒。

Lafite is now a premium brand and Europe has plenty of those: Louis Vuitton, Lamborghini, the Louvre, Lafite.

拉菲如今成了顶级品牌，而欧洲多的是此类品牌：路易威登（LouisVuitton）、兰博基尼（Lamborghini）、卢浮（theLouvre）、拉菲。

Making fake Lafite may become a thing of the past by then.

到那时，仿冒拉菲就可能成为历史。

Mr. Xie says that his point about hoarding is speculative, since nobody can account for all the bottles of Lafite in the world.

谢国忠说，他认为囤积拉菲酒是一种投机性行为，因为没人可以垄断世界上所有的拉菲酒收藏。

Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2000 has climbed 611% since December 2004 -- when Fine + Rare first started compiling figures on wine investments.

从2004年12月Fine+Rare公司首次收集葡萄酒投资数据起计算，2000年份拉菲的价格上涨了611%。

But just as prices were starting to look frothy, particularly for Lafite, April produced some much-needed respite.

但正当价格尤其是拉菲（lafite）开始给人以泡沫感时，4月份迎来了亟需的喘息。

We may also have drunk the Lafite too early.

我们也可能过早品尝了拉菲。

The dinner is served with a 2010 bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild.

佐餐酒是一瓶2010年的拉菲庄园葡萄酒。

But according to LivEx, an online fine-wine exchange, the price of a case of 2008 Lafite jumped 17% in the days after the announcement.

不过，按照名酒交易网站LivEx的说法，在拉菲酒庄发布这一声明之后的几天当中，每一箱拉菲2008年年份酒的价格就上涨了17%。

The people from Lafite have deliberately gone after the Chinese market.

拉菲堡在刻意地追逐中国市场。

This is why some fake Lafite is made of very cheap stuff.

正因如此，有些假拉菲是用非常便宜的原材料仿制的。

But Chteau Lafite 2001 currently sells for about 800 a bottle; whereas you can still get the wines that tasted better in Davos, moss wood Cabernet from Australia and vergelegen from South Africa, for 43 and 14, respectively.

但2001年的拉菲目前卖到了一瓶800英镑左右，而在达沃斯品酒会上更胜一筹的葡萄酒来自澳大利亚的慕斯森林（moss wood）解百纳和来自南非的vergelegen却只卖43英镑和14英镑。

and there's a case of Lafite Rothschild 1982 waiting at the end.

最后等着他的是一箱82年拉菲罗斯柴尔德

And yet even the most dedicated connoisseurs of wine cannot tell the difference between Chteau Lafite and much cheaper wines.

可是，就连最内行的品酒专家，也尝不出拉菲与价格便宜很多的葡萄酒有何区别。

At the beginning of this year, people would gain at least 10 percent profit to reserve a box of 2005 Lafite (12 bottles) for several months.

而在今年年初，谁能拥有一箱（12瓶）2005年的拉菲红酒，只需要放上几个月再卖，就能得到10%以上的利润。

Idon't dine on caviar every day while swilling Chateau Lafite Rothschild.

每次晚餐我也并不是就着鱼子酱用拉菲漱口。

Rationalisations aside, Lafite-mania clearly has little to do with the taste of the wine.

理性与否姑且不谈，拉菲热显然与这种葡萄酒的味道没有多大关系。

I usually drink Lafite. Since I know nothing about wine, I just drink the most expensive stuff.

但是红酒里，我通常喝拉菲，因为我不懂，所以我只喝最贵的。