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15. It was amazingly good

Sat Sep 29, 2018, 09:07 PM

Sep 2018

You never know with a wine that old if it’s still good or had turned, especially since we had moved a few times and lived in a warm dry climate.

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POLL: Most expensive bottle of wine you have purchased & drank [View all] Equinox Moon Sep 2018 OP

I like a good cabernet, but just don't get paying $100s of dollars for a bottle. hlthe2b Sep 2018 #1

Asti Spumante, maybe Korbel champagne. Been awhile. nt woodsprite Sep 2018 #2

Was there a special occasion? Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #4

For the Korbel, it was my hubby's and mine anniversary, and woodsprite Sep 2018 #25

I taught a seminar in Napa Valley, and the class bought me a very good bottle of wine. dawg day Sep 2018 #3

Also once I went out to dinner with a couple who ordered two bottles of wine- dawg day Sep 2018 #5

What a deal! Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #6

A lot of critics have sung praises for St Michael riesling Wednesdays Sep 2018 #7

Yes! St Michael Riesling CloudWatcher Sep 2018 #31

go to Trader Joes (or anywhere) and get some real German Riesling. Kali Sep 2018 #42

Bartenura Moscato sakabatou Sep 2018 #8

Lucky me!! My son in law is a published sommelier..brings back great port from Australia, great Thekaspervote Sep 2018 #9

Sounds exotic Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #10

We Had a 1979 Petit Syrah from the Alexander Valley That We Only Paid $40 Ccarmona Sep 2018 #11

How did it taste? Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #12

It was amazingly good Ccarmona Sep 2018 #15

A Wall Street going-away story PJMcK Sep 2018 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author Ccarmona Sep 2018 #14

Purchase? 20 bux. Drank? ghostsinthemachine Sep 2018 #16

Wow. $800. Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #27

Oh, it was.. ghostsinthemachine Sep 2018 #33

I gave 2 friends who live in the porto region... yummy... pangaia Sep 2018 #38

Does Mad Dog 2020 count? GemDigger Sep 2018 #17

Internet search says it is a wine. Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #26

Ok then, I bought some MD2020 for $1.19 once! GemDigger Sep 2018 #40

Sounds like vinegar Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #41

That was my kind of wine! nt zanana1 Sep 2018 #47

Fortified wine Major Nikon Sep 2018 #48

Ripple and Boonrs Ferry Apple trueblue2007 Sep 2018 #50

I can count on one hand over the decades that I got drunk and when I do it has to be sicky sweet. GemDigger Sep 2018 #53

1 bottle of Veuve Clicquot, honest to gosh French Champaign irisblue Sep 2018 #18

A Veuve Cliquot also. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2018 #20

I bought a sellitman Sep 2018 #19

Of course, caus you paid too much for it. pangaia Sep 2018 #39

$50 for a bottle of homemade Chocolate Raspberry Port yellowdogintexas Sep 2018 #21

Great story! Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #22

Thanks!!! (great wine!!!! especially with chocolate cake !) nt yellowdogintexas Sep 2018 #23

Friends and I splurged on very expensive Sauternes wine for a birthday party. JHan Sep 2018 #24

1961 LaFite Rothschild...Quite a while ago. pangaia Sep 2018 #28

What was the occasion? Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #29

I wanted to drink it. :)))) pangaia Sep 2018 #35

Wanted to drink it! Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #36

THE best. pangaia Sep 2018 #37

Beautiful Burgundy 2naSalit Sep 2018 #30

Sweet! Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #32

$125 Dom Perignon. Back in the 90's, when pnwest Sep 2018 #34

there are some really good reds being made in northern Baja, but the prices are too high Kali Sep 2018 #43

A Rothschild back in the 70's. We were elite at one time.😆 sprinkleeninow Sep 2018 #44

Boones Farm, Thunderbird and Ripple LeftInTX Sep 2018 #45

Old Duke. .90 a quart! nt zanana1 Sep 2018 #46

That's certainly an easy one DFW Sep 2018 #49

well, most expensive wine I ever drank was an 1841 St Emillion shanny Sep 2018 #51

I think I might have paid around $40 once or twice for champagne Major Nikon Sep 2018 #52

I purchase the wine for Communion at my church Freddie Oct 2018 #54