A few weeks ago a wealthy acquaintance of my weekends-only next door neighbor, whose principal home is in Seattle and who has a penchant for expensive California Cabs, gifted him a bottle of Harlan in thanks for some favor. I guess that's a $500+ bottle. It got as far as his kitchen. He has a cellar there but in his haste to pack and get up here for the weekend, he didn't put it in the cellar.
Meanwhile, back in Seattle that same weekend, his adult son, recently broken up with his longtime girlfriend and living back home, met some girl somewhere and brought her back to the empty house with plans for getting lucky. She asked for a glass of red wine. And you know what she got.
Fortunately, my neighbor has a sense of humor. Upon returning home and seeing the empty bottle, he reportedly roared with laughter and said, "That better have been the best f--k of your life!"
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Everyone probably has such a story. Yours?
), I ordered several wines, including the '82 Mouton Rothschild for $40. They phoned me back and said that their initial allocation was gone, but that they had reordered some for $48 a bottle, and did I still want some? I said "No that's too much to pay for wine" and declined. 10 or so years later, I ended up buying the '82 Mouton for $300 a bottle for a vertical Mouton tasting I was running.