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Originally posted by jimmy3way
Your Google skillz are impressive young Jedi.
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Actually I've had two of the four
The Mouton and Yquem. I didn't claim 'em for the contest because both were the result of Charity auction tastings that I didn't pay a cent for. The Cheval and Petrus are so difficult to get ahold of that tasting one from a large format bottling is almost impossible short of buying it yourself, but the Mouton and (to a lesser extent..) the Yquem are a tad easier.
In fact I saw a split of the '45 Mouton at
my favorite wine shop going for a bit under $1500 last month. Scared to buy old wine like that though. I have a friend in Texas who paid $4250 for a bottle of Domaine de la Romanee Conti's La Tache. It was corked (the result of a flaw which affects 7-12% of all wine corks and makes the wine taste like mouldy wet cardboard) beyond drinkability. The sort of merchants who sell DRC wines inavriably offer refunds on corked bottles, unfortunately he purchased it at a (wincing) charity auction. Painful experience!