[Alter Kaker]

With cheeses, de Villaine pours Le Montrachet, a buttery white Burgundy, never his top-of-the-line reds. “I do not want my great wines ruined by cheese,” he told me.

At $1000 a bottle, Le Montrachet is a rather expensive white wine alternative to your top of the line reds, M. de Villaine. But it is excellent!

[garyhope]

“At $1000 a bottle, Le Montrachet is a rather expensive white wine”

Why heck, that’s only about $200 to $250 a glass, you got a problem with that?

Kind of a damn shame that I will probably never experience Chateau Petrus, Le Montrachet, Romanee Conti, etc., before I expire unless I win the lottery or go crazy and rob a really good wine store.

Another wine junkie friend of mine and I joke about breaking into some rich persons extravagant wine cellar and leaving behind a bunch of empty bottles, bread crumbs and cheese rinds with smart alecky tasting notes. What else can poor wine snobs do?