HOW I WON’T BE SPENDING MY NEW YEAR’S — by Steve Nadis
A jet-setting friend of mine is flying in from Paris to fly to Acapulco to fly back to New Hampshire (huh? what’s wrong with this picture?) for a New Year’s Eve party. The host of that party, a movie producer, is going to share a $500,000 bottle of wine purchased from the Screaming Eagle vineyard in Napa Valley. It seems hard to believe that someone could spend so much on a bottle of wine, especially to someone like me–someone who can still appreciate a $10 bottle of Spanish wine (when I’m not appreciating a $1 bottle of Bud).
I can almost picture the scene: As midnight approaches, the bumbling sommelier (a Peter Sellers type?) survives a number of near misses, only to drop the bottle, which shatters into a million pieces at the exact moment the clock strikes 12. It sounds like a comedy that needs to be made. Does anybody know a movie producer–preferably someone who enjoys a good bottle of wine?
Posted by
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05:25:04
$500,000 for a bottle of wine?
Are we talking regular bottle of wine or is it extra large, e.g. the size of an oil tanker bottle?
Maybe said movie producer should insure this bottle in case of butterfingered servants. Do insurance companies insure stuff that you swallow and your body will release back to nature in a matter of hours?
Gotta love the “beautiful people” and their lifestyle!
Like I said, FW, I don’t drink in those circles. Or party in those circles. What’s wrong with a $50 keg?
Where do you find Bud for $1/bottle???
By the case. Or 12-packs, my friend.
Sorry but I’ve always wanted to taste a $500,000 bottle of wine just to see if it really is that much better than the $20 wine.
Maybe one day you will, OR. And if you do, be sure to tell us all about it.