January 6, 2020 - 115 - "Fine Wines"

Quick back-story:

"Charles Shaw is a brand of bargain-priced wine.  These wines were introduced at TRader Joe's grocery stores in California in 2002 at a price of US$1.99 per bottle, earning the wines the nickname "Two Buck Chuck" and eventually sold 800 million bottles between 2002 and 20013." (from Google search)

Because of the price of shipping Two Buck Chuck is more expensive outside of California...but they have sales periodically where they roll back the price tag.





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     We were in an Italian restaurant tonight and noticed a wine rack way up on the wall of their  bar.  The bottom of it started at about 10' from the floor.  None of it looked like it had been touched for a very long time.  

"That's some dusty wine." Michael observed.  

"The good news is when they get a bottle out they can blow the dust off and present the guest as an aged wine."  I said.  "It could be Two Buck Chuck and it would look like it's vintage."

   "Yeah.  It would look like Million Buck Chuck."  Michael said.

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"What wine goes with Captain Crunch?"

-George Carlin

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I found this story from People magazine while looking for information about expensive wines:

A New York Wine Merchant Turns a 1787 Chateau Margaux into the World's Most Expensive Puddle

By Alan Richman

May 15, 1989 12:00 PM

Manhattan wine merchant William Sokolin can make this boast: He spills no wine before its time.

Last month, while attending the annual $250-per-person black-tie Bordeaux dinner at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, he broke a bottle of 1787 Château Margaux—a celebrated Bordeaux wine that he had valued at more than a half-million dollars. But all was not lost. Opportunely, 193 guests were on hand to witness history dribble onto the blue-and-gray carpet of the Pool Room, and enough of them were wine writers to ensure that this would be the most publicized breakage in the spirits world since Eliot Ness took a sledgehammer to Al Ca-pone’s warehouse.

The bottle, inscribed with the initials Th.J. and discovered behind a Paris cellar wall in 1985, is thought to have been the property of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence and found Bordeaux a happiness worthy of pursuit. 

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