Expensive booze

[HookLine]

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[Godstilla]

I'm surprised that the wine that was once owned by Thomas Jefferson is not worth more.

[Ayay]

Very interesting! Making the bottle out of gold or glueing on diamonds is cheating, it's just a fancy container that money can buy anytime.

The genuine old stuff in ordinary bottles is something else, a time capsule plus the longest ageing around. I would pay to get pissed on a bottle if I could afford it, but they should go to someone who can describe the taste properly so we can all benefit from the experience.

[Dnderhead]

I seen somewhere that a kid found a bottle of beer on a sunken ship and the yeast manufacturers were bidding on it for the yest.
that was up in the thousands.

[goose eye]

would bet t jefferson wine is vineagar.

[HookLine]

Kinda what I was thinking there, Goose. If you paid that much money for a bottle, you probably wouldn't be game to open it to find out it was just swill. Very, very expensive swill.

[Hawke]

Heck, I was pissed when I spent the $30 for Knob Creek and found out how skanky it was. Have tasted a few high end wines that I wouldn't drink if they gave it to me.

[duds2u]

I have a bottle of 1893 Para liqueur Port in a presentation case. Maybe someday I'll get round to selling it along with the full series of the dated vintages.

[HookLine]

I have a bottle of 1893 Para liqueur Port in a presentation case. Maybe someday I'll get round to selling it along with the full series of the dated vintages.

Where did you say you lived?

Once, many years ago, I got to try a glass of good quality 40 year old port.

Mmmmmmmmm. Yumyumyumyum.

A (rich) man could easily become an alcoholic on that kinda stuff.

[big worm]

forgive me but, exactly what is port?

[punkin]

It's fortified wine.

Google works for this kinda question.

[absinthe]

my folks have a barrel of 35 year old port and a barrel of 20+ year old double still port.. the best port i have tasted.. and you haven't tasted sherry until you have tasted 30+ year old (its as dark as port, thick and rich)

also for those who want to have a gander at some whiskey that has been barreled since the 40's go to the cigar shop in crown casino Melbourne (a bottle goes for the tens of thousands)

[goose eye]

some of them hi falutenin eatin places have got insurance on there hi end wines. noed a boy that use to
run with them got titles an they was eatin an man order a hi doller bottle of wine an it was off. the
the eatin place got to of there tasters to sip an then they put it to the side for insurance man.

so im tole

[Uncle Remus]

About a year ago I heard on the radio, about a scotch tasting and offering that was happening in Calgary Alberta. I don't remember the name of the distillery, but what they had was 2 casks of 70 year old single malt. It was being offered for $25,000 per bottle.

[blanikdog]

How much for a case?

blanik

[pHneutral]

True story.. my wife, when she was born, her parents bought a then expensive bottle of red wine.

At our wedding party, they brought it out for us to open and drink.

The year.. was the year of my birth. And I checked later.. that bottle was worth something in excess of $1k

It was really good

[bourbonbob]

I know a guy that had a bottle of red he paid $300 for 45 year ago, he opened it recently on a special occassion, it tasted like bad vinegar.

[Markme]

you guys will be horrified with this, but back in the day when i was about 14 or 15, my mate and i would sneak bottles from his parents port collection..
anyway, one day we found a bottle that was dated in the late 1800s, went to open it, the cork broke in half, we had a swig each... and tipped the whole bottle out.
Only now, after being able to appreciate the taste of a drink and not the drunken stupor it produces do i feel very ashamed of myself..
i think we must have drank two dozen bottles of port that were atleast 60 years old.

[blanikdog]

I was talking to a mate over the weekend and he told me that Bundaberg black rum is now bringing around $1500 a bottle. We used to drink it after working on his aircraft and it's all gone. BUGGER!!!

A bottle of that would have paid for my dogs vet bill after being bitten by a snake last week. BUGGER again.

blanik

[The Baker]

Then there was the time a few years ago, we were staying in a seaside house with friends.
We opened a bottle of 1972 Penfolds Grange Hermitage and drank it with the pizza; beautiful.

(For those who don't know, it is pretty much Australia's top wine.)

[Hawke]

I haven't found a single bottle of wine that I would pay more than $5.00 for. Just not my taste. Would love to try some of the high dollar whiskey or Scotch, but somebody else would have to pay for it.

[Coyote]

A good pard of mine and I both love a great Scotch. A few years back we were in Las Vegas for the NFR. While waiting for some friends to meet us we sat down at a Scotch Bar
in one of the casino's ( don't remember which one) After about 3 hours of " lets try that one and that one" the bar maid said her shift was ending and would we mind
paying our bill. "Sure be happy too" ( really happy at this point )

$ 2,400.00 Thanks God she discounted it to 1,800.00 and we left her a $300 tip

His wife learned about this ( he told her ) and she nearly divorced him

[reenari]

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