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    Re: Wine

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    Okay I've never had a $1000 bottle of wine. You said you could taste the difference. So my question is, is a glass from a $1000 worth $1000 to your palette? Or is a glass from a $20 bottle just as tasty? Is 'different' the same thing as 'better', not that I would know. Is it just different, or is it 200x better? I've always wondered whether a very expensive bottle of wine is worth it. I suppose you have to be able to not care about the price to answer that question.
    No, a $1000 bottle of wine is not worth it unless you just don't care about money. Yes, it's amazing, but I don't see a reason to buy it unless you're pretty wealthy. The only reason I've had one is because my far back family has owned a winery in France since the mid 19th century and many vintage bottles for sale top over $1000.

    I would never buy it though to be honest even though it's amazing. I don't think any bottle of wine is worth $1000 unless it's been through a battlefield and survived that and all this weird ****.


    Yes, it's better than a $20 bottle, but no, not 50x better. You can definitely taste the difference though, but I guess it's my personal belief to not spend that much for some wine.

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    Re: Wine

    anyone going to the Jordan Creek fund raiser auction? Last year they had LOTS of good bottles of wine up for auction so I would assume there will be more this year.

    If you are there, stop and say hi.

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    Mad Dog 20/20. Priceless!!!!!!!!!!

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    Re: Wine

    Quote Originally Posted by marothisu View Post
    No, a $1000 bottle of wine is not worth it unless you just don't care about money. Yes, it's amazing, but I don't see a reason to buy it unless you're pretty wealthy. The only reason I've had one is because my far back family has owned a winery in France since the mid 19th century and many vintage bottles for sale top over $1000.

    I would never buy it though to be honest even though it's amazing. I don't think any bottle of wine is worth $1000 unless it's been through a battlefield and survived that and all this weird ****.


    Yes, it's better than a $20 bottle, but no, not 50x better. You can definitely taste the difference though, but I guess it's my personal belief to not spend that much for some wine.
    That's kind of what I figured. So very expensive wine usually has a story behind it, or is in such rare limited quantities that the rich will pay for it. Speaking of which, did you hear about the 100+ year old scotch that was found in the arctic that was left by an explorer. I thought that was pretty cool.

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    Re: Wine

    Quote Originally Posted by pulse View Post
    That's kind of what I figured. So very expensive wine usually has a story behind it, or is in such rare limited quantities that the rich will pay for it. Speaking of which, did you hear about the 100+ year old scotch that was found in the arctic that was left by an explorer. I thought that was pretty cool.
    Well, I don't know about a story behind it. Usually expensive old wine is expensive because of how it's kept. For stuff that sells for a ton, there's a record for the humidity, darkness, and temperature it was kept in pretty much everyday. That and some famous person may have owned the bottle which can make it worth much more.

    If you ever have a chance to have really expensive wine, definitely take it, but unless you're wealthy there's no point in buying the expensive wine UNLESS....this is a big unless, but you can invest in wine and if you are good, you can make a decent amount of money in it. For my family's wine, there was a recent "release" of vintage in the last two years that has gotten most investors over 100% return. It's not cheap though.


    Anyway, I haven't heard of that scotch. What's the story with that? I have however heard of the bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale that sold for $500,000. Heard of that? A typo on eBay made it only sell for around $400, someone saw, bought it and sold it for way more money.

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