bottle of wine? is there something in the grapes that make the more expensive wine or more of something?

I grow roses in my garden and get some roses.

My neighbor grows roses and gets championship ribbons.

We both start with the same materials, but she gets phenomenal results ... why?

Simply put knowledge, skill, time and effort.

The grapes themselves are pretty much the same just like roses, but unlike many annual agricultural products like corn or tomatoes, grape vines can grow for a hundred years. It might take several decades before a vine starts producing the best grapes it can and require intensive care all along.

One example of how these differences can be achieved is if because of the weather this growing season the champion grower felt it best to sacrifice 3 out of every 4 blooms so the plants could devote all their energies to the remaining few blooms. In the same way an expert wine maker may sacrifice a large portion of the grape yield so that the rest of the crop can mature to its full potential.

This kind of care and decision making goes all the way through the wine making process ... from growing, selection, processing, blending, and aging.

For example to get a $10 wine take truck fulls of one variety of grape harvested from fields full of young vines, juice them and ferment them in huge stainless steel tanks and after some months bottle it, label it, ship it, and sell it.

To get the $300 bottle of wine you would typically need to grow many varieties of grapes with vines 50+ years old, and carefully nurture small batches of grapes to get just the best. Then hand select each one, and process small batches with the best care and skill possible, adjusting the blend to the qualities that the grapes are showing that particular year, then age and monitor them in specially selected barrels. Even then getting those lofty prices would rest heavily on your skill and reputation for producing those superior products in the past.

Does that make a $300 wine 30 times better than a $10 one. It depends! Is a Ferrari 30 times better than a mini-van? Some would say 1000 times, and others ... well a Ferrari isn't going to be very useful getting groceries or taking the kids to soccer practice now is it?

well usually the more expensive ones are treated very well and are much older. Because when grapes get older it gives this rich taste to it.

If we knew the exact difference between an average and an outstanding vintage, we could consistently produce the best vintage every year. A lot of winemaking is luck; rainfall, temperature and sunshine hours all vary from year to year, hence good and bad years.