58 Guineas Claret is a great all-rounder claret from the Bordeaux region, with nice typicity and a full ripeness. 58 Guineas Claret Bordeaux Wine Case | 6 x 75cl Worldwide Wines. ’58 Guineas’ was the reported price Sir Robert Walpole (First Lord of the Treasury) paid in 1713, to smuggle twenty hogsheads of claret into Britain, where it was highly prized by London’s fashionable wealthy elite.