Posted on 03/16/2017 8:36:33 AM PDT by simpson96
Much more exciting than the release of Donald’s Trump 2005 tax return was the release of Johnny Depp’s accounts by his business managers a few months ago. Now, there were some fun details, like the fact that Depp spent more than $3 million to blast the ashes of the late writer Hunter S. Thompson out of a specially made cannon. The accounts also mentioned that Depp spent $30,000 a month on wine, a cost that some found even more extravagant than the cannon, causing the Wall Street Journal to ponder, “Is $30,000 A Month Too Much To Spend On Wine?”
The answer, for the average American who may or may not have health care in the foreseeable future, appears to be pretty simple: “Yes.” But surprisingly, the WSJ article leads us to believe, “Maybe not?” Writer Lettie Teague swept her immediate circle of wine dealers, aficionados, and sommeliers, and found that some of these oenophiles could easily spend five figures on a single bottle. Teague states, “Was Jack Sparrow’s wine budget really so big after all? Some wine collectors I talked to didn’t seem to think so.”
Granted, some of these experts included Brad Goldstein, a spokesman for billionaire Bill Koch, who sniffed at Depp’s comparably paltry sum:
““Bill Koch sold a case of 1945 Mouton Rothschild at auction last year for $400,000,” he said. If Mr. Depp’s agents were “trying to show excess, they’re in the wrong place.”
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I’ve had $450 bottle of wine... it was amazing
I wonder what $1000 bottle tastes like?
one per day would be easy
(unless he is drinking 10 - $100 bottles per day)
Not if your his supplier.
Rich wine lovers have a lot of friends and family over to drink wine, order a lot of wine in restaurants with huge markups, and even then buy and cellar much more wine than they can ever drink, like a record or book collector buying records they won’t spin or books they won’t read (the rule, not the exception).
$30k a month is a lot for you and me, but for a wine-lover who makes $10-$50mm a year? Not a big number of at all. I know a few centimillionaire wine lovers who go low 7 figures net a year, and mid-7 figures gross (they are selling wine at the same time as they are buying it).
Rich wine lovers have a lot of friends and family over to drink wine, order a lot of wine in restaurants with huge markups, and even then buy and cellar much more wine than they can ever drink, like a record or book collector buying records they won’t spin or books they won’t read (the rule, not the exception).
$30k a month is a lot for you and me, but for a wine-lover who makes $10-$50mm a year? Not a big number of at all. I know a few centimillionaire wine lovers who go low 7 figures net a year, and mid-7 figures gross (they are selling wine at the same time as they are buying it).
As a born again Christian, I could have WONDERFUL things done for hundreds of thousands, if not millions .. of people that could really use legitimate help.
Has the wine been consumed (in whole or in part) or is it an investment? It might not be wasteful spending.
Nobody should be outraged. It’s his money. He earned it.
It sounds like, by now, his liver should either be totally pickled or nearly destroyed.
If he can afford it, and he is paying for it, then it is not outrageous as all.
What a superficial life. Disgusting.
Bill Koch was a key playing at uncovering some of the fraud. (He apparently didn't learn, because he went on to buy more fake vintages)
He earned it. Let the guy be happy. Leno collects cars, Harrison Ford likes airplanes. Trump likes snazzy gold furniture.
All these butinskis annoy me. Williw Nelson said it. Mind your own business and you’ll be busy all the time.
A ridiculous and absurd amount to spend on wine. Probably a bit stingy for motorcycle and gun collecting.
Why is that superficial? Please, tell us how you think he should live and what he should spend his money on.
He and the little woman drank the rest.
Yes, but as I am sure you realize, if you were allowed to do so you would be diverting power away from government...and they can't allow that unless they are sure you can be compromised in some way, when necessary.
As a Christian, I am reminded that “to whom much has been given, much is required”.
I am also reminded that “some are created as vessles of wrath”.
And while pondering that God is just, I pity them.
You’re right. Sounds like whining whiner Wine Envy to me.
was it just for himself? Or for guests and parties as well?
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