A few years ago I was on a business trip to France. The first day there, we stopped at a little Chateaux for lunch and they served an outstanding red table wine. I thought we might have better wines later in the trip, but since this was the BEST wine I had ever tasted to that point, I bought a couple of bottles of it to take home with me. (As it turns out, the wine was from a local vinyard and was only sold to a couple of restaurants locally and not available in stores, so I was fortunate that I asked there.) Over the next few days, we had some very good wines and some very mediocre wines, but none that I enjoyed more than that first one. Thus, I was very glad I went ahead and bought my take-home souvenir wine the first day.