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$550 For A Bottle Of Wine? Well, If It's The Right Wine...

Posted: Jun 28, 2006 4:03pm ET

I just spent $550 on a bottle of wine. Want to take a guess what it was. ’05 Latour? Nope. Haut-Brion? Nope. Margaux, Mouton or Lafite? Zip, zilch, nada. No, there are 15,000 to 20,000 cases made of each of those wines, and they’ll be in the marketplace from now until they mature.

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