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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Doesn't your sister work for the police?
They perhaps bought a bottle of plonk, printed a label and then had forensics make it look old.

Besides, whilst both are really good presents, I'd go with the Motorhead one every time.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 9:27, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
Yeah, I would feel really bad about drinking
wine that's that expensive and collectable. At least with Motorhead you aren't going to clutch the tickets worriedly to your chest going 'Oh gosh, I don't really know if we should go to this, I mean...it seems an awful waste of a ticket'.

Maybe it's just me.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 9:34, Reply)
We bought my father
a 60-year-old bottle for his 60th. The merchant warned my brother it might be undrinkable. At £250 a bottle. We only bought it on the assurance that if it was revolting he's give us another, younger but guaranteed to be drinkable, bottle.

Luckily for them it was actually fine. Unlike young wines, when you open a bottle that old you have to drink the lot within a minute or two as the air makes the flavour collapse almost immediately. It was actually jolly nice.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 9:37, Reply)
Precisely.
Is the wine a collectable objet d'art that you're going to keep to show to people? Or are you going to actually enjoy it? Thus making it a fleeting but memorable pleasure in the same way that a concert is.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 9:38, Reply)

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