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- thethinktank, on 05/08/2009, -3/+391. Buy x cases of boone's farm
2. Age for 20 years in magic and jesus tears
3. Profit. - glaroc, on 05/08/2009, -3/+38Who are you to tell me I can't afford these? I'll take a case of each, and a large pepperoni pizza, to go.
- asgardshill, on 05/09/2009, -0/+24How many heart attacks could I cause at a wine auction with a BB gun and a good line of sight?
- spookyttws, on 05/09/2009, -1/+23Wine is meant to be be drank and shared with good friends and family. It's a wonderful beverage, and although I understand the concepts of supply and demand, it's a shame such great vinos will never be tasted by 99% of those who'd like to. My palate is way to young to really appreciate most of these wines (I'm only 24, though have loved wine for almost 10 years), but I'd love to own a few bottles of that '92 Screaming Eagle.
- NavS, on 05/09/2009, -1/+21if I was a millionaire/billionaire I'd just shake it, pop the top, and drink it down from the bottle and piss off all the elitists.
- grape, on 05/08/2009, -2/+19Charles Shaw FTW!
- LucasHenderson, on 05/09/2009, -1/+17I agree\ that,s a Terible thing toosayfor one`
I think Anyone^ who;s thinks that*s a good idea is. a bad person? - ryanhayn, on 05/09/2009, -1/+15I'd take one sip, then pour the rest in the grass for my homies.
- mynameisjudge, on 05/09/2009, -1/+14Holy *****. That one bottle is about as old as the United States.
- l31101, on 05/09/2009, -1/+13That's your argument? YOU can't tell the difference, thus everyone else is a phony?
- soze1, on 05/09/2009, -0/+10Im pretty sure you can get some good wine for $20-30, maybe even cheaper. You don't need to spend hundreds let alone thousands of dollars on wine.
- sgr215, on 05/09/2009, -0/+8One of the links on the site has an interesting fact. The most expensive bottle of wine ever broken was a 1787 Chateau Margaux worth $225,000. Apparently some rich guy ordered it with dinner. It was sitting on the guy's table when a waiter accidentally brushed against it which knocked it off the table and smashed it. Luckily it was insured for the full amount. Even then, it must have sucked being that waiter.
I could never see paying more than a few grand on a bottle if I was insanely rich and even then, it'd be a once in a blue moon type thing. - sonicpentatonic, on 05/09/2009, -2/+10Wine tasting is a very refined art that not everyone is capable of. It requires a certain sensitivity of palate that allows a person to distinguish the slightest nuances in taste and smell between different wines/different batches of the same wine. Not everyone is genetically capable of this, and far more people desensitize their palate to these very subtle nuances through, quite frankly, not giving a damn (eating spicy food, smoking, wearing strongly scented products, always wearing scented products, etc etc etc). The few people that have these very sensitive palates and are able to use them accordingly are a very prized commodity and can make an absolute killing in the perfume/wine tasting indutry.
I toured a perfume factory in France and they told us about the professional smellers they employed. These guys couldn't have ever smoked anything in their life, they couldn't eat spicy foods, they only worked for like 20 minutes at a time before having to get fresh air to clear out the palate, they spent years training and refining their palate to certain aromas, and they made a small fortune every year doing this.
I don't pretend to possess these almost super-human abilities, and for the average person, a $15 bottle of wine will more than suffice (there are plenty of quality wines at this price point). - vtbarrera, on 05/08/2009, -0/+8Is there a better wine for 2 bucks?
- cheezzwizz, on 05/09/2009, -0/+7Come on Gary V. get some stuff like this on Wine Library TV
- LucasHenderson, on 05/09/2009, -1/+8So "some dude" is a qualified wine taster. It all makes perfect sense now!
- DouglasQ, on 05/09/2009, -0/+7 Very simple, very simple.
We can only drink these ten bottles here. - nepidae, on 05/09/2009, -1/+7whiskey > wine, sorry.
- MaskedSlacker, on 05/09/2009, -0/+6Pouring one out for the homies attracts ants.
- MrMayBeBanned, on 05/09/2009, -0/+6The scent of "sexy sausage"? I don't think I want to go near that one.
Usually it's the wine first, THEN my sexy sausage. - tgc1, on 05/09/2009, -1/+6This is everything that is wrong with wine drinking. Wine snobs who horde or otherwise create an illusion of scarcity to drive up costs and create ***** buzz out of an otherwise ordinary beverage. It's just a bunch of fermented grapes for ***** sakes.
If you spend a lot of money on a particular wine it should be because it was crafted by artisans who spent countless hours perfecting it and scrutinizing the ingredients to the nth degree. And even then it shouldn't cost anywhere near the thousands of dollar mark. Even a few hundred should be pushing it. There are plenty of other beverages one can enjoy, even young wines are decent. This kind, where a bottle of fluid fetches hundreds of thousands is pure snobbery. - thethinktank, on 05/08/2009, -1/+6Wish there was a way to get some of that stuff online...
- inactive, on 05/09/2009, -0/+5My boss used to order Rothschilds, Lafite, Screaming Eagle, Margaux, Plumpjack, et al all the time on the company's tab. Course I drank it with no complaints.
- inactive, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4I'm in private equity. We're fine, but conspicuous consumption is out right now.
- beloitpiper, on 05/09/2009, -1/+5Wow, that article description had Pretentious ***** written all over it.
- dizavin, on 05/09/2009, -1/+5expensive wine is a sham. anyone who pays more than 30 dollars for a bottle of wine is saying one and only one thing:
"I don't know anything about wine"
there are mindblowing wines that you can buy for even under 10 dollars. get your head out of your ass. - cheese0089, on 05/09/2009, -1/+5I'll stick with the tour de Franzia
- Riggaberto, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4I dont like that it breaks the barrier of addressing diggers.
- Balath, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4Depends on both the wine and the whiskey. Whiskey and wine happen to be my two favorite drinks, and I've had some pretty decent (and really bad) examples of each, but there's no way I could proclaim that I like one better than the other.
- DubWainwright, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4Believe it or not, the article has failed to mention a key fact: that the Thomas Jefferson bottles are widely considered to be fakes. They were passed off by a gentleman who was quite the freewheeling, jet-setting rapscallion. The New Yorker did an incredible article on this and the wide, wide world of wine forgery here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/0709 ...
- bobsbones, on 05/09/2009, -1/+5I was fortunate enough to have a (very small) glass of the 1951 Penfolds Grange Hermitage at a charity event.
It was pleasant, and then some. It was all I could do not to bludgeon down all the other guests and steal their glasses too. - kbillar, on 05/10/2009, -0/+4dugg up solely for the use of the word rapscallion
- BurgGuy, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4The Screaming Eagle, along with Grace Family and other Napa "cult" wines are very good, but seriously crazy overpriced, so almost impossible for most people to afford. The insane price is a result of very low production, 50-500 cases and obsessive demand.
Look around your local area for a wine group that does smaller tastings, maybe 10-20 people. Often, there's one or 2 older guys who will show up with an something like an old Burgundy DRC, or something equally amazing from their cellar that they are glad to share with their friends. This is a great way to sample these and at 24, you have many years of good tastings ahead if you choose and you can make some nice friends as well. Enjoy. - dizavin, on 05/09/2009, -0/+4tell me about it. expensive wines are a scam. you can get a great wine for 10 bucks if you wanted.
- jtt123, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3haha fail to who buys tjem
- harrisos, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3I logged in for the first time in months specifically to digg you up.
Funniest. Show. Ever. - emix, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3ohh. a rich boy
- beloitpiper, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3Whoever dugg you down must have never had good Scotch.
- nepidae, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3Mine too! But I'm on a whiskey kick atm :)
- jtt123, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3fail to my spelling of them
- dendendennis, on 05/09/2009, -1/+4I eat every day in a room that is three times as old as the United States. You yanks don't know what old is.
- brownsound00, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3no ??? necessary. it just works.
- Slycer, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3I sooooooo not wealthy enough to buy any of these but this article really makes me want to taste the Cheval Blanc.
Thick consistency, smells of leather, coffee and chocolate and tastes of sweet fruit, mmmm - anaxa, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3Gold.
- Zcrubby, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3Oh shi--! I remember Black Books! I need to rewatch those..
- Salstar, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3I have also tried that classic Australian wine. However, there are some absolutely OUTSTANDING South Australian and Hunter Valley Cabernet Sauvignons and Merlots that are, argueably, as good (but without the mortgage level price tag). The Hunter Valley Verdellho's have (thankfully) generally superseded the Chardonnay. Personally, I believe there is so much Hoo-Ha that goes on about wine. The Australian market is flooded with fantastic wines to choose from - we are spoilt for choice. My motto is to just sit down and enjoy it! Only fools spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on wine - you can get world class wines for less than AUS $15 (US $12) per bottle. I hate to say it, folks, but our WORST wines in Australia are better than the best crap you sell in California (I've tried Californian wine - Ugh! I hate to tell you but they can't even GIVE away Californian wines in Europe!)
- AaronZuffa, on 05/09/2009, -0/+3Lets pitch in money from everyone on Digg to buy a bottle or two of these wines. Then we can dump them out just to piss the wino's off.
- sirjohnmichalot, on 05/11/2009, -0/+2I would buy it if they sold it in a can.
- dizavin, on 05/09/2009, -0/+2....wtf?
- dizavin, on 05/09/2009, -0/+2I wouldn't say that it's the ULTIMATE beverage.
but I do love beer. enough that I make my own, now. -
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