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17 Jul 10 - 01:51 PM (#2946797) Subject: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: gnu Keep... a bottle of your finest for the little lady. And, I'll have a Bud. |
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18 Jul 10 - 10:25 AM (#2947102) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: Uncle_DaveO Can I get a case-quantity discount? Dave Oesterreich |
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18 Jul 10 - 12:56 PM (#2947164) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: gnu Hehehee. Just wait until you see the deposit on the bottles. |
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19 Jul 10 - 08:37 AM (#2947544) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: SINSULL I would love just a taste. Ah well. It is not likely to be. |
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20 Jul 10 - 07:40 AM (#2948183) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: GUEST,champagne charlie .....it's 500000 kroner, not dollars. |
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20 Jul 10 - 07:47 AM (#2948192) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: maeve "Cromwell-Morgan estimated the opening price at auction of each bottle at around half a million Swedish kronor (53,000 euros, 69,000 dollars). "But if it's really Louis XVI's wine, it could fetch several million," she added." (From gnu's original link, above.) |
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20 Jul 10 - 08:38 AM (#2948220) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: gnu Thanks m. |
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20 Jul 10 - 08:41 AM (#2948221) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: MMario The thing is, at that age the price is due only to the rarity. The wine itself is probably ruined. |
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20 Jul 10 - 08:56 AM (#2948228) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: maeve From the same link: '"Aaland wine expert Ella Gruessner Cromwell-Morgan, whom Ekstroem asked to taste the find, said it had not lost its fizz and was "absolutely fabulous". "I still have a glass in my fridge and keep going back every five minutes to take a breath of it. I have to pinch myself to believe it's real," she said. Cromwell-Morgan described the champagne as dark golden in colour with a very intense aroma. "There's a lot of tobacco, but also grape and white fruits, oak and mead," she said of the wine's "nose".As for the taste, "it's really surprising, very sweet but still with some acidity," the expert added, explaining that champagne of that period was much less dry than today and the fermentation process less controllable.' |
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20 Jul 10 - 09:14 AM (#2948243) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: MMario okay - the depth, the temperature, the lack of o2 explain a lot. But 230 years in salt water and no salt has filtered through the cork? Cork is not impermeable; especially to dissolved minerals. |
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20 Jul 10 - 09:28 AM (#2948257) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: Uncle_DaveO Leo, you're a spoilsport! Let us dream! Dave Oesterreich |
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20 Jul 10 - 01:12 PM (#2948405) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: Bill D The cork might have had extra seals around it...wax, for example. |
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22 Jul 10 - 06:15 AM (#2949627) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: maeve In a related story... "July 22, 2010 05:09 EDT ANTARCTIC WHISKY WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- It's aged Scotch -- on ice. Experts at a New Zealand museum are slowly thawing a crate of Scotch whisky that has been frozen in Antarctic ice for more than a century. The booze was found under a hut built by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, during his 1908 expedition. But when the Scotch is defrosted, it won't be sipped. Scottish distillery Whyte and Mackay picked up the tab to recover the whisky. It's hoped there will be enough to analyze and duplicate the now defunct Mackinlay's brand." http://wgme.com/newsroom/get_this/ |
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22 Jul 10 - 03:56 PM (#2950059) Subject: RE: BS: Like Champagne? Got $0.5M US? Per bottle From: gnu You could get waxed on that. |