1934 Pol Roger $12
1926 Corton Clos du Roi $8
Buena Vista wines $2.50/bot $1.50/half
Among other things…
Well, everything is relative.
How much was the mean income in USA in those days?
My dad loved Mama Leone’s and we used to eat there a lot when I was a kid. I remember drinking Orvieto Abboccato there a few times when we went there as a family when I was home from college. Boy was that semi-sweet wine so much better than the sweet Manischewitz I had to suffer through at home on Friday nights. For a while, it was my favorite wine.
The Corton is $73.88 in today’s money. Today, that would be a preposterous deal for a 26 year old grand cru at retail, and at a NY restaurant would be a laughably good price. The Pol Roger is $110.82 would draw berserkers too.
Relative pricing is moot. I was too young to drink, in 1952.
Tells you few things…
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True rate of inflation is 4.25%, not the 1.5% as propagated. Thank you FED!
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How much of a ripoff it is to Drink out in NYC these days…
Landlords/property owners run the joint. It is nutty.
Wait what?
I can’t expand the picture, is there a link?
also notable – ordinary restaurants had good aged wines. Almost no restaurants age their wines these days. Even good restaurants with extensive lists will often just have two or three aged bottles at crazy prices.