Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: depressed about investment (OT - wine)
From: chefurka@sympatico.ca (Paul Chefurka)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:47:31 GMT

On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:05:46 -0700, Roger Beamon <roger@beamon.org>
wrote:

>Footnote: Six months later, a jeroboam (2.5 times the size of a 
>magnum) of the same '29 Mouton sold at auction in New Orleans 
>for 10,000.00 USD.

A newspaper story here in Ottawa today described how the owner of a
new restaurant in Calgary forgave a clumsy waiter.  On opening night
he dropped and smashed a bottle of '82 Petrus.  The quoted value was
$10,000 CDN.

Worse than having a Noctilux fall off your M3...