Interesting article in today’s WSJ about how French wine-makers are reaching out to China to exploit what is still a very much an untapped market. I especially like the quote about a Chinese business man buying an ’82 Lafite, only to then mix it with Coke!
In December 2006, US News asked Shawn Lightfoot, the wine buyer for Denver’s Applejack Wine & Spirits, for his top value picks out of the 15,000 wines Applejack stocks (yes, some obvious spending caps applied).
A brazen theft in Atherton, California of 450 bottles of a private collection have left police puzzled and residents speechless. One of the more memorable quotes to me:
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