Jupiter, the first of the “Wines from Another World” series, was produced “to leverage the Portuguese brand and the Fine Wines category at an international level”, says wine advisor Cláudio Martins.
Gordon Ramsay is currently selling one of Portugal’s most expensive wines in his UK restaurants. The British Chef, known for his fiery personality in the kitchen and on screen, is reportedly selling Jupiter, an already sold out 2015 Alentejo red, at the staggering price of €500 per glass.
The wine is the first of a series of nine top-tier Portuguese wines called “Wines from Another World”. The project’s founder, Claúdio Martins, says, “Júpiter’s main objective was to leverage the Portuguese brand and the Fine Wines category internationally. And we did it. It is on sale in iconic restaurants, namely the Gordon Ramsay group, which serves Jupiter by the glass, for €500”.
The wine advisor, who launched Júpiter in 2021 in partnership with the Herdade do Rocim at €1,000 a bottle, says the wine was sold out by February 2024, with “some investors selling it for double”.
The second wine of the series, Uranus, was released at Christmas in 2022. For this edition, Cláudio Martins chose to work with a Spanish producer in the Priorat region, Dominik Huber from Terroir al Limit, with whom he invested, for the first time, in large format bottles.
Uranus, a young 2021 wine produced from 75 years old vines, is a blend of red Garnacha Peluda (85%), white Garnacha (10%) and Cariñena (5%), of which “500 0.75-litre bottles were launched at €1,700, already practically sold out, and now being sold at €2,040”. Consumers and investors can still get their hands on some of the “24 magnum bottles (1.5 litres), sold at €3,500, 12 three-litre bottles, costing €7,000, and six six-litre bottles, priced at €13,000. There are also three 12-litre bottles priced at €28,000 each”, informs the producer.
At the end of 2023, the third planet, Saturn, was launched in partnership with German producer Ernest “Erni” Loosen from the Mosel Valley. Together they launched 1780 0.75l bottles at €900 a pop and 60 magnums for €2,000 each. “300 bottles of 0.75l and 15 magnums have already been sold”, proudly remarks Martins.
Saturn, harvested from the Grand Cru Erdener Treppchen 130-year-old vineyard, is a Riesling produced in the German tradition of dry GG and pays homage to Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
