But it's not just the fine wine that attracts thousands of visitors to Napa Valley.
In my experience, exposure to air unfurls the complex layers of flavor in young fine wine.
"People say: 'Oh, it would be wasted on me', " says Christie's' head of fine wine David Elswood.
Several bottles of perfectly aged fine wine, ready (and needing) to be drunk in the next 12 months.
It was the musician Jools Holland who introduced Mr. Evans to fine wine.
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Moreover, buying fine wine when it is first released and requires a few years aging is almost always cheaper.
Jim Budd is a fine wine expert who also reports on the possible pitfalls of investing in this area.
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Unlike a fine wine, the tax code has not aged well, and the current system has reached staggering levels of complexity.
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Don't buy fine art the way people buy fine wine: It's easy to be seduced by the apparent objectivity of numbers.
Does it trouble you that Netscape founder Jim Clark is a centi-millionaire who drinks fine wine and sails on a 292-foot schooner?
Her hobbies include running, skiing, a massive passion for the arts - particularly opera - and lots of fine wine and banter.
If you smoke, Yorkville's Prego della Piazza , a spot favored by visiting movie stars, offers pricey Italian, a fine wine list-and ashtrays.
These days fine whiskey appears to be appreciating faster than fine wine, especially when its rarity is increased by the demise of its maker.
The Bangles talked to CNN about fine wine, being horrified by the decade that made them and stumbling across embarrassing photos on the Web.
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And, in several countries, more people being introduced to fine wine.
For anyone with a passing interest in collecting fine wine, walking around its immaculate aisles is like being handed the keys to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
Thus, paying high prices for fine wine can be justified by new consumers as in their minds it is something that gives pleasure and does them good.
The Japanese are to great gadgets what the French are to fine wine or the Italians to opera: They are demanding, spoiled and absolutely on the money.
He was seen as a old-school oil man, happier having a beer with rig workers than, like Lord Browne, drinking fine wine with prime ministers and presidents.
It has taken Mr. Viner, who is now their head wine buyer, a little over a year to assemble the mind-boggling collection of fine wine, spirits and glassware.
The two men were dining at London's Le Pont de la Tour restaurant when Mr. Holland deftly navigated his way around the fine wine list, ordering a 1978 Pommard.
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With a slew of old, rare and fine wine widely available, as well as many different kinds of good-value wines on offer, you may wonder why bother at all.
So the beers are sold by beer people, and they don't collaborate with his wine people, who don't talk to the liquor people, who don't talk to fine wine people.
The report comes as a blow to the venture capital industry, which presents itself as something of a fine wine: a long-term asset class that only gets better with age.
Whitman is so rich that one must read him like one tastes a fine wine or good cigar -- take it in, roll it in your mouth, and savor it!
Mr. Botham, who had been educated to appreciate the delights of fine wine (mainly French) by the late cricket commentator and writer John Arlott, began a love affair with Australian wine.
For much of the world's wealthy elite, classic cars are the most popular collectible asset with prices surging 395% over 10 years, beating other alternative investments such as fine wine and art.
"That's why we say, 'Fine wine for the privileged many, ' " said Jerome Zech, chief executive of WineBid, which entered the online wine-auction business early it was founded in 1996, one year after eBay.
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This was good for my secret because I was comfortable with such language, and he and I shared sumptuous ideas over fine wine or walking through the Central Park Zoo smelling the chilly fall air.
Some of the unadvised collectors in the room tonight, well-lubricated on their own fine wine as well as bottles supplied by Acker, may find themselves suffering buyer's remorse when they see their invoices in the morning.
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