command cult-wine prices

Spanish translation: no logra alcanzar el precio de los vinos de culto

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English term or phrase:can't command cult-wine prices
Spanish translation:no logra alcanzar el precio de los vinos de culto
Entered by: Laura Leotta

23:23 Apr 1, 2007
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Wine / Oenology / Viticulture / Artículo de revista de vinos
English term or phrase: command cult-wine prices
Hola, estoy traduciendo un artículo de la revista "The Wine Spectator", y tengo una duda con la siguiente frase:

"(..) and set out on his own, making complex, ageable Cabernet-based blends under his eponymous label. The wines are unquestionably succesful, but Togni isn't. He makes only a few hundred cases, but can't quite command cult-wine prices."

Mi duda tiene que ver más que nada con la última oración, específicamente con "command cult-wine prices".
Creo que tiene que ver con venderse por los precios de vinos "cult-wine", pero no estoy muy segura; además, no encuentro ninguna correspondencia para "cult-wine"..

¡Gracias!
Laura Leotta
Argentina
Local time: 01:26
no logra alcanzar el precio de los vinos de culto
Explanation:
Una opción.
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Lorena Vallejos
Bolivia
Local time: 00:26
Grading comment
¡Muchas gracias a todos!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3no (puede) está aún en posición de cobrarlos al precio de los vinos de culto
patricia scott
5no logra venderlos a los precios de las bodegas más prestigiosas (o exclusivas)
glaster
4demandar/obtener precios de vinos "de culto"
kironne
3no logra alcanzar el precio de los vinos de culto
Lorena Vallejos


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
no logra alcanzar el precio de los vinos de culto


Explanation:
Una opción.

Lorena Vallejos
Bolivia
Local time: 00:26
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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¡Muchas gracias a todos!
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
demandar/obtener precios de vinos "de culto"


Explanation:

to command

Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English comanden, from Anglo-French cumander, from Vulgar Latin *commandare, alteration of Latin commendare to commit to one's charge -- more at COMMEND
transitive verb
1 : to direct authoritatively : ORDER
2 : to exercise a dominating influence over : have command of: as a : to have at one's immediate disposal <commands many resources> b : to demand or receive as one's due <commands a high fee> c : to overlook or dominate from or as if from a strategic position <a hill that commands the city> d : to have military command of as senior officer <command a regiment>

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35 google hits for "vino de culto"

Vino 'de culto' - Atlas del Vino
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Vino 'de culto'. By Wine Atlas, lunes 11 julio 2005 :: Vino - Espana :: #51 :: rss. Vino de la Rioja LA RIOJA. Recuperan una bodega visigótica de los siglos ...
http://www.wineatlas.net/es/2005/07/11/51-vino-de-culto-.htm...

Tierra de Vinos - México
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En Tierra de Vinos contamos con un Vino de culto, el Quintessa. Registro. para recibir por correo electrónico nuestros boletines. Noticias ...
www.tierradevinos.com.mx/tdv/index.php?id=34&pagina=Leer - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
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A decir de los conocedores, el próximo "vino de culto" es un cabernet sauvignon llamado Merus. Las primeras botellas que han salido al mercado este año, ...
http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/domingo/archivo/domingo/2002/m...



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Also, "NO LOGRA VENDER A PRECIO DE "VINO DE CULTO"


Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry: cost
Part of Speech: verb 1
Definition: command price
Synonyms: amount to, be paid, be received, be worth, bring in, come to, mount up, move back, nick*, rap*, require, sell at, sell for, set back, take, yield
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
* = informal or slang





kironne
Chile
Local time: 00:26
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 3
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
no (puede) está aún en posición de cobrarlos al precio de los vinos de culto


Explanation:
yo interpreto que aunque produce pocas cajas (que lo convierte en un producto más exclusivo) aún (matiz del quite) no puede cobrar por los vinos el precio ...tal vez porque no es suficientemente conocido, o lo que sea

patricia scott
Spain
Local time: 06:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Aïda Garcia Pons: Exacto.
1 hr
  -> Muchas gracias Aída.

agree  Mónica Algazi: Eso!
1 hr
  -> Muchas gracias Mónica.

agree  kironne: Right!
3 hrs
  -> Muchas gracias Kironne.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
no logra venderlos a los precios de las bodegas más prestigiosas (o exclusivas)


Explanation:
"cult-wine" viene orgininalmente de "cult movie", peliculas que solo un grupo muy selecto conoce y disfruta.
un cult wine vendría a ser un vino muy prestigioso pero exclusivo.

glaster
United States
Local time: 00:26
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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