Somewhere between Darwin and Sydney, at more than 33,000 feet, it jumped out from an in-flight magazine.

The first vintage of Penfolds Grange, 1951, now has an auction price guide of $45,000 a bottle. It’s not until 1965 you have a sniff of getting one for hundreds instead of thousands.

Sitting on the same plane, maybe reading the same mag, was Jarryd Hayne.

He’d just scored two tries, for the third week in a row, to go top of the NRL try-scoring list and help his Parramatta Eels beat Canberra.

If some of Jarryd’s blood was binned in a Penfolds cellar, it would be his 2009 vintage fetching top dollar… or would it?

The question asked in commentary on Saturday, sort of, was; “Should investors rate his 2014 yield as a better buy.’’

The judges might sniff, swirl and sip cold hard statistics and the unquantifiable ‘x-factor’.

On the latter, Fox Sports Commentator Ben Ikin said; “I don’t think anyone in the league can just hit a button and turn in on like Jarryd can at the moment.’’

Now the stats.

So dominant was his finish in 2009, a more accurate comparison right now is to run the rule through 22 rounds.

Games. Then 18. Now 17.

Tries. Then 12. Now 17.

Average running metres. Then 171. Now 175.

Tackle busts. Then 109. Now 109. (That’s right.)

Line breaks. Then 25. Now 22.

Line break assists. Then 4. Now 18.

Try assists. Then 8. Now 12.

Offloads. Then 17. Now 13.

So despite playing one less game in 2014 than 2009, after 22 rounds, Hayne’s numbers are generally better than his first Dally M year.

And who knows what he’ll give us for the rest of the season.

One certainty is you’ll want to be watching, maybe with a good red in hand.