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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Sassicaia!!!!! One of my favorite wines EVER! I was in an Italian restaurant in Berlin in 2001, at a show, and we had a couple of bottles of the 1997. Back then it was only $75 per bottle. It was the BEST wine I had ever had.... and I had had a few that were much more expensive. I got back to Miami and bought 8 bottles. Over the next year and half I gave away and drank them all.
Now that year is worth about $400 a bottle, and I won't spend that.
I still remember how it tasted though. God it was amazing. I've had other years of that wine. They're great, but not like the 1997!
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Yeah that was a fantastic Vintage for Tuscan wine. I worked in a restaurant years ago, and we were bringing in 88 Sassicaia, this was just before the huge wine boom, and damn was it good, and you're right.. sub $100 (Even in Canada). We had clients that specified that they wanted these Super Tuscans, pretty much any Italian wine ending in "AIA". It was around then that the Asian Stock Markets were going haywire, and heard reports that many Super Tuscans, as well as 1st, and 2nd Bordeaux Cru's were being consumed with Cola, such a waste, same for really old Cognacs, really who drinks Louis XIII and Coke?