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> I once owned a cookbook with a recipe for "Canard Margaux". It used a
> WHOLE BOTTLE of Ch.Margaux in which to cook the duck!
Quite believable.
80 years ago Margaux, Latour and their likes were horrendously expensive -
2, 3 even 5 times the price of ordinary red wine. 30 cents for generic St.
Emilion, 1.40USD for Latour 1916 or 1.00USD for Petrus 1916 according to a
1927 price list. A difference well corresponding to actual quality...
(sigh)
Anders

(And the expensivest from that list? Ch. d'Yquem 1916 2.85USD and Alsheimer
Goldberg Auslese, yes, Rhine wine, at 1.75USD)