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Oct 18, 2018,17:34 PM
I’m feeling a powerful thirst coming on ...
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Sometimes you get lucky,maybe very lucky
By: halkcb : October 18th, 2018-05:45
I bought a job lot of half dozen wines and champers at a garage sale some ten years ago for a pittance. Two nights ago ,a gem of a wine from that lot was drunk and what a pleasant surprise as i wasn't confident of storage by the previous owner. The '98 or...
I love these stories.
By: Bill : October 18th, 2018-07:47
Unfortunately I have never been lucky enough to find a garage sale with such wonderful wines. I have had the same type of surprise buying at auction where you never really know if the provenance is what it is said to be. I need to look through my Italians...
My sister gave me a bottle of that as a birthday present...
By: cazalea : October 18th, 2018-08:31
When I looked it up and saw the price I nearly fainted! I can't remember exactly when we drank the Ornellaia but it was good. My "best deal" was buying 6 bottles of Inglenook (Niebaum / Coppola) Rubicon for $9 each at an auction. We bought another 400 bot...
Another match with the rubicon.
By: Bill : October 18th, 2018-21:29
I started my collection in the us around Coppola. I had my euro cellar but my intro in the us was around Coppola who i found had a real Bordeaux esk feel. ...
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By: cazalea : October 18th, 2018-17:34
I’m feeling a powerful thirst coming on ...
Yes, that looks just like what we found
By: cazalea : October 19th, 2018-12:02
At the time I think it was $90 a bottle or something like that. It was a great tour through his winery too, maybe back around 1998. Mike