Posted on 08/01/2009 5:49:24 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Dense and opulent, with a sweet nose, $20K bottle of wine stolen in Hopkinton August 1, 2009 07:34 PM
By Terri Schwartz, Globe Staff
This was no bottle of "Two Buck Chuck." A Hopkinton liquor store owner says thieves stole a bottle of wine worth $20,000 from his store.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Anybody know the whereabouts of one Sandy Burglar over the last 24 to 48 hours?
Worth? Priced maybe.
Attention all cars!!!
Be on the lookout for a ...
“remarkably exotic, over-ripe, sweet nose of black fruits, coffee, tobacco, mocha, and Asian spices. It is a dense, opulent, and rich wine, with layers of creamy fruit. It is structured, powerful, and tannic.””
check with Teddy
Actually Hopkinton is the starting line for the Boston Marathon.
He'd have to pour it in his sock.
The wine is described on the store’s website
Ha haaaaaaa!!!!!
Darn good mixed with Sprite!
It has intrinsic collector value beyond its drinkability. That is a 1945 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, the greatest wine made in one of the three or four greatest vintage years ever.
Coming immediately after the Second World War, this glorious vintage was hailed as a blessing and a sign of national renewal. The "V" on the label stands for "Victory" and was only printed this one year.
Bottles have been auctioned for considerably more than the $20,000 mentioned in this story. It is one of the three or four most expensive wines in the world, apart from a very few ancient and undrinkable one-of-a-kind rarities, like Thomas Jefferson's bottle of 1787 Chateau d'Yquem that sold for over $150,000 a few years ago.
People do occasionally open and drink their bottles of 1945 Mouton, sometimes at parties where people will pay thousands of dollars for a small glass. A thing is worth what someone will pay for it, and while it's not worth $20,000 to you or me, it's clearly worth it to some people.
Now that’s funny!
It is fine if some folks really don't like it, but those who snear because they don't like cheaper French stuff have never had the really really good stuff.
One of the reason for drinking well aged wines is that the tannin is mostly gone.
No.1 suspect...
No doubt. There does seem to be fewer people in that category lately, however. Still, all it takes is one willing buyer.
I have an ex-girlfriend who used to go on business trips with her husband before she divorced him (well deserved - he was and is an abusive creep).
They went to France one time and stayed with a very rich client who opened a number of old and very expensive wines that night. She said it was some of the most ungodly amazing stuff she ever drank.
Absolutely correct. I worked with a stock trader who, among other stocks, maintained a market in several very local, thinly traded stocks. When people would see the bid and asked in the Wall Street Journal, they would call him up and demand to buy or sell by those prices. He wouldn't do it, because the bid/asked prices were so old and unreliable. When he finally got totally upset, he would respond, "Well, sell it to the Wall Street Journal then!!!"
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Cheers, my good man. Shall we open a bottle of the 2009 Ripple?
This must be the oldest con on the books. Would like to see the description of the woman - "Buxom, a short black skrit reavealing long shapely legs, long hair flowing down to her shapley..., blond like the idiot store clerk, low cut blouse revealing ...., ruby lips"
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