The crowd dressed stylishly and ordered bottles of vintage wine from the bottom of the list.
Collecting vintage wine is a relatively common hobby, but a bit more unusual as an investment strategy.
Maturity, for a first growth vintage wine is 25 years or so, but then it plateaus for a couple more decades.
After a day negotiating deals, nuzzle up to the lobby's modern fireplace with a vintage wine or hand-rolled cigar from ONYX bar.
Greenberg years ago capitalized on the growing interest in the sale of alcohol for investment purposes, becoming one of the world's top owners of vintage wine, with a collection of more than 70, 000 bottles.
William Koch took the witness stand in the second week of a civil trial in which he accuses one-time billionaire Eric Greenberg of fraudulently selling him two dozen bottles of phony vintage wine in 2005.
Maybe it's just because it is all so new, but the idea of using, say, reverse osmosis filters to remove water molecules and artificially concentrate wine from a rainy vintage makes wine production sound less like agriculture and more like the Rise of the Machines.
Mr. Parker's other now-legendary point of distinction was his ringing endorsement of the 1982 Bordeaux vintage when every other wine critic dismissed both the wines and the vintage.
As a wine writer, over the years I have sampled all sorts of cigar combinations, from sparkling wine to vintage port and Californian Merlot.
When Incisa's Cabernet blend, Sassicaia (meaning "place of many stones"), finally reached the market with the 1968 vintage, it incited wine revolutionaries across Italy, thanks partly to its Bordeaux-rivaling depth and lusciousness--from a vineyard in Nowheresville!
The vast majority of Champagne is sold as non-vintage: a blend of wine from around three vintages.
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The wine was a 2007 vintage made from Georgia's indigenous saperavi grape.
" This is his third vintage of this single-vineyard wine, one of three Chardonnays he makes, and this one is distinguished, he said, by "more minerality due to colder nights.
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Scientists from Pennsylvania's University Museum believe 7, 000-year-old pottery jars discovered in what is now Georgia were used to store and age wine -- a true vintage.
Wine character fluctuates with each vintage dependent on how cool or how warm it got, the amount of rain in the spring and fall, the wind and even the bird population.
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One of the pleasures of starting your own wine collection and cellaring wine for many years is watching each vintage evolve with age.
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Although the winery produces fine white Chardonnay table wines, sparkling wine is the specialty here, and during vintage time (February-March) visitors can watch 12 tons of grapes pressed each day in a traditional champagne press.
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Unscrupulous wine dealers have been known to put fine-vintage labels on cheaper bottles and try to pass them off as the real thing.
The next vintage, we took the 'Grenache' off, and the wine sold out.
Like wine, it has a slightly different taste profile from vintage to vintage.
Even from a sunny, ripe vintage like 1998, what strikes you about this all-chardonnay wine is its pinpoint elegance, a refined texture and closely woven harmony that comes in part from its nine to 10 years of cellar age before it hits the market.
If you always kept the wine to drink, you can't sell a bum vintage and then take a tax loss.
The wine, at least, was somewhat upscale with reasonably good French vintage bottles uncorked for the guests.
Their first winemaker developed a drinking problem, and when John Shafer finally convinced his son, by then a graduate of UC Davis's viticulture program, to take over as winemaker, the cellar was in abominable shape, full of mold, spoiled wine and a bacterial taint called Brettanomyces, which spoiled their 1981 vintage.
Wine talk is big right now with collectors and winemakers claiming the 2009 Bordeaux vintage to be an outstanding one.
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While the 2010 was bright and vivacious wine, the 2011 was a bit ponderous, lacking the charm of the previous vintage. (Mr. Mailvaganam was comparing the two at the time of my visit and offered me a taste.) We both agreed the 2010 was the much better wine.
Scores are awarded for the correct identification of the wine's predominant grape variety, country of origin, viticultural region, subdistrict and vintage.
On the walls, antique hunting prints sit alongside vintage beer posters and mounted animal heads, but the stripped wooden floors, leather furniture and blackboard wine list feel more Chelseachic than Cumbria-cosy.
The Gallo brothers, great businessmen in the wine trade, once got pushed to answer how they'd compare their gallon jug concoctions with vintage Bordeaux.
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