Most Expensive Bottle of Wine You've Ever Purchased?
"Young Martle" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:49:33 GMT, "graham" > wrote:
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>>"DaleW" > wrote in message
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>>On Apr 10, 12:43?pm, "Bi!!" > wrote:
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>>You're right, on rereading. I have to think about this. When tasting
>>blind, I don't usually go "hmmm, this tastes like a $90 wine."
>>Certainly there have been wines that overachieved against much more
>>expensive flightmates.
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>>You're right about "The trick is to find $10 wines that smell, taste
>>and feel like $50+." I guess my big buys are generally wines that I
>>think taste more expensive than their actual price. $15 Pernot
>>Bourgogne that tastes (to my palate) like a nice $50 Puligny. Lafarge
>>Bourgogne that tastes like $40 Volnay, $12 Cap de Faugeres that I
>>think would fair well in a tasting of $30 St Emilions.
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>>I've been drinking the 97 Cap de Faug?res as a "house wine". I've just
>>returned from my favourite wine merchant with, unfortunately, the last
>>bottle. The '03 is twice the price:-(
>>Graham
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> Same here. Jumped from $17 CAD to $31
Where are you?
Graham
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