POLL: Most expensive bottle of wine you have purchased & drank

[Equinox Moon]

Write a comment about the kind of wine it was and how it tasted. You might want to write about the circumstances for purchasing such an expensive bottle of wine.

(make believe this is a glass of wine)

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[hlthe2b]

1. I like a good cabernet, but just don't get paying $100s of dollars for a bottle.

Then again there's a lot of ways to spend (waste) money that don't appeal to me.

[woodsprite]

2. Asti Spumante, maybe Korbel champagne. Been awhile. nt

[Equinox Moon]

4. Was there a special occasion?

[woodsprite]

25. For the Korbel, it was my hubby's and mine anniversary, and

our first trip without kids for 22 years.

The Asti was in celebration of my brother's graduation. It's the only kind of wine my Mom would drink.

For everyday table wines, we prefer Beringer White Zinfadel, Italian Canonau or Vermentino.

[dawg day]

3. I taught a seminar in Napa Valley, and the class bought me a very good bottle of wine.

It was pretty pricey, considering wine is cheaper there.

And you know, I put it in the wine cabinet, and one dinner, without recognizing it, shared it out. I didn't even know it was the expensive one. Obviously the good stuff is wasted on me!

[dawg day]

5. Also once I went out to dinner with a couple who ordered two bottles of wine-

drinking one before I arrived, and drinking most of the other too. I had about a glass and a half.

We got the bill. The wine was $100 a bottle.

THEY WANTED TO SPLIT THE WHOLE BILL!

After all, we'd "shared"!

[Equinox Moon]

6. What a deal!

[Wednesdays]

7. A lot of critics have sung praises for St Michael riesling

that you can get for less than twenty bucks. I have never been disappointed.

[CloudWatcher]

31. Yes! St Michael Riesling

Wife and I used to buy it by the case. The liquor store clerks got to know us too well ))

Have tried other Rieslings, never been impressed.

Oh, we slowed down due to our waistlines, never got tired of the wine

[Kali]

42. go to Trader Joes (or anywhere) and get some real German Riesling.

St Michael is pretty good for the US but real Riesling - especially from the Rheingau - is better.

[sakabatou]

8. Bartenura Moscato

[Thekaspervote]

9. Lucky me!! My son in law is a published sommelier..brings back great port from Australia, great

reds from Spain and other areas.... from time to time. He also says a great bottle of wine does not have to be expensive

[Equinox Moon]

10. Sounds exotic

Can you discern flavor within flavor?

[Ccarmona]

11. We Had a 1979 Petit Syrah from the Alexander Valley That We Only Paid $40

But, by the time we opened it to drink in 2013, we were told it was worth more than $650

[Equinox Moon]

12. How did it taste?

[Ccarmona]

15. It was amazingly good

You never know with a wine that old if it’s still good or had turned, especially since we had moved a few times and lived in a warm dry climate.

[PJMcK]

13. A Wall Street going-away story

In the 1980s, I was married to a bond trader and we lived a high-end yuppie lifestyle. When one of her colleagues was moving, there was a goodbye dinner at a restaurant in NYC's Little Italy called SPQR. There were about a dozen people in our party and the liquor, wine and food consumed were extensive. At the end of the evening, I somehow got stuck with the check: $5,500.00! (I knew I'd get reimbursed by Merrill Lynch, but still!)

At one point, we ordered this bottle of red wine that came in a gallon-sized bottle. It cost $550.00.

It was a remarkable evening.

[ghostsinthemachine]

16. Purchase? 20 bux. Drank?

800. Port. Life changing experience.

[Equinox Moon]

27. Wow. $800.

Glad it was very special

[ghostsinthemachine]

33. Oh, it was..

Seriously life changing. Ive got a venture capitalist friend who likes the good life. Sadly, he lives in New York now, so I don't get to hang out with him much anymore. When you do, it is the best of the best.

[pangaia]

38. I gave 2 friends who live in the porto region... yummy...

[GemDigger]

17. Does Mad Dog 2020 count?

[Equinox Moon]

26. Internet search says it is a wine.

[GemDigger]

40. Ok then, I bought some MD2020 for $1.19 once!

Maybe it was a buck .09.

[Equinox Moon]

41. Sounds like vinegar

[zanana1]

47. That was my kind of wine! nt

[Major Nikon]

48. Fortified wine

Which means a distilled alcohol has been added. So something between wine and booze.

[trueblue2007]

50. Ripple and Boonrs Ferry Apple

[GemDigger]

53. I can count on one hand over the decades that I got drunk and when I do it has to be sicky sweet.

MadDog was one of them and I passed out under a bush when I was moving. When I woke up I was all loaded and ready to go.

[irisblue]

18. 1 bottle of Veuve Clicquot, honest to gosh French Champaign

$50ish in 2008, my commitment ceremony. And I don't remember anything exvept bibnles and a pleasant taste.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. A Veuve Cliquot also.

Around fifty bucks. It was to celebrate a college graduation of a friend's son.

Loved it. And as far as I'm concerned pretty much all champagne is good.

[sellitman]

19. I bought a

$22 dollar boxed wine once too. Does that count?

[pangaia]

39. Of course, caus you paid too much for it.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. $50 for a bottle of homemade Chocolate Raspberry Port

Made by a good friend of mine.

He and his wife hosted a party for our Sunday School class, and he was offering us 'tastings' all through the evening. So he came around with this bottle and by this time we were all so stuffed and satisfied we kept saying no then one of my friends finally broke down and took a sip and said "Oh.My.God. y'all have got to taste this!" So we did.

This stuff is so good. Sweet, but not too much. Definitely tastes of chocolate and raspberries, and is quite rich. It is a perfect dessert wine especially with chocolate.

Fast forward to our Sunday School class Christmas party. He put two bottles of that stuff on the auction, in different parts of the room. There were about 5 of us hovering over those two bottles of wine to get in the final bid on the Silent Auction. I managed to score one!

And that is how I paid $50 for a bottle of homemade wine.

I normally try to stay under $15. I look for wines on sale at World Market, Sprouts, and other places.

[Equinox Moon]

22. Great story!

[yellowdogintexas]

23. Thanks!!! (great wine!!!! especially with chocolate cake !) nt

[JHan]

24. Friends and I splurged on very expensive Sauternes wine for a birthday party.

was worth it

[pangaia]

28. 1961 LaFite Rothschild...Quite a while ago.

[Equinox Moon]

29. What was the occasion?

[pangaia]

35. I wanted to drink it. :))))

Back when I was into wines.
The first time I had a Lafite was in..1968 i think. Much cheaper then.

I remember that 2nd one was in the $600 range.
That was the last.

But at one time I spent $$ on good French wines. Long before there were decent American wines.
Back when a BMW motorcycle could be had for about $4000.
And when a parterre box at the Met was.. $150, maybe....

[Equinox Moon]

36. Wanted to drink it!

Good reason!

[pangaia]

37. THE best.

[2naSalit]

30. Beautiful Burgundy

on my honeymoon... $350 @ late 1970s prices.

[Equinox Moon]

32. Sweet!

[pnwest]

34. $125 Dom Perignon. Back in the 90's, when

I was waiting tables, tending bar - it was a purely showing off thing if we had a particularly good night and made PHAT tips, we’d buy a bottle of Dom to share with fellow staff. I did it once. Keeping in mind as servers we only made 2.12 per hour, so it really was about showing off that you had an exceptional night of tips. We’d try to outsell each other, you were weak if you couldn’t break $1000 in sales on Saturday night, and rake in 25% in tips . I got stuck tending bar one Christmas Eve, and I was slammed all night, and had a huge contingent of young, single, fellow wait staff at the bar partying it up, and they RAINED money on me. I bought a bottle of Dom.

[Kali]

43. there are some really good reds being made in northern Baja, but the prices are too high

still had to have a few bottles anyway.

[sprinkleeninow]

44. A Rothschild back in the 70's. We were elite at one time.😆

[LeftInTX]

45. Boones Farm, Thunderbird and Ripple

That was way back. I purchased these wines cuz I was a teenager and they tasted good.

The last time I bought alcohol was election night 2012. (Mike's Hard Lemonade)

Before that I can't even remember.

I basically do not drink.

[zanana1]

46. Old Duke. .90 a quart! nt

[DFW]

49. That's certainly an easy one

ZERO. I don't drink alcohol, even if I (apparently) do a convincing act to the contrary.

I once wrote a novel, and one of the reviews said "the author's passion for fine vintage wine shines through on every page."

Umm, right. Try again?

When writing the story, I did ask around a bit to try and get some of the terminology right, but I never liked the taste of any wine. To me, it all tastes like nail polish remover. I never drink alcohol at all. So much for the literary world's ability to accurately asses the authors it reviews!

[shanny]

51. well, most expensive wine I ever drank was an 1841 St Emillion

that "cost" $650 in 1978...but I didn't buy it, I broke it...kinda. Myself and the other bartender spent Thanksgiving weekend (back in the day when everything was closed) building a new storage unit for the haphazard cage containing partial cases of rare wines and...this one cracked, along the seam bottles from that era had. Restaurant owner was in Europe with his family on a wine-buying trip (or, at least, writing it off as such) so...somebody had to drink it and we did.

OMG. I'd had wine and I'd had wine tasting through the restaurant but OMG! Best wine I'd ever had or ever will have, nutty, aromatic, smooth as silk...just shoot me, I never need to have another glass of wine.

Not the most expensive on the list, by any means. That was an 1889 Chateau Lafite Rothschild; we had several bottles and all had evaporated down below the shoulder...go figure, we never actually sold any.

[Major Nikon]

52. I think I might have paid around $40 once or twice for champagne

...given as a gift for dinner. I'm not big on wine, so no real need to spend much on it.

I was given a bottle of Dom Perignon once as there were two bottles left over on a contract flight that was given to both of us pilots. I thought it was good, but not something I'd pay that much for.

[Freddie]

54. I purchase the wine for Communion at my church

Taylor Port. Very sweet and grape-y. A fine compliment to those rather tasteless little wafers it’s usually served with.