A 237 Year Old Jura wine sells for €57,000

A bottle of Vin Jaune (Yellow Wine) from 1774 is presented

Arbois, France - An amateur wine group paid € 57,000 record ($ 77,000) Saturday for 237 bottles of wine from the French Jura region east of the local wine festival auction. 

Wine Named 'Vin Jaune' Google Search Articles epithet 'king of wines and wine monarch' surrounding that produced in Arbois, Jura Northern Region, France.

But the amateur who buy wine grape 1773 do not plan to sit on an investment or sell the bottles at - they will drink it.  

Swiss wine lover Pierre Chevrier, who bought the wine in the name of the group, told Decanter: "My passion is to open a bottle and I'm glad I bought a bottle of vin Jaune, which I will drink. 

"To sell the bottles for € 57,000 is not crazy," he said of the 1773 bottles from the era of Louis XV vine and grapes harvested during the reign of Louis XVI. 

Because of the historic wine grapes are harvested during the reign of Louis XV, in the same year with the Boston Tea Party and Captain Cook's voyage to Antarctica. 

Jura vin Jaune is famous for its ability to age for a long time, thanks to Sherry as maturation in a barrel under a layer of voile or yeast.