It was Chateau Margaux!
Looking forward to watching this.
"A History of the World in Six Glasses is a six-part comedic docuseries coming to Fox Nation later this month.
Alongside Dan, Belushi and Nealon, 70, the show also features Jon Lovitz and Cheers star George Wendt, and is helmed by writer-director Rob Long, a former executive producer of the NBC series."
He came in to Marty’s once to buy wine and was really weird. Came in on a motorcycle with some riding buddies and kinda pretended he wasn’t famous.
It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, a case of Margaux, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.
We’re on a mission from God!
I may have been the person that turned Aykroyd on to Margaux. I worked at a wine shop in the Orlando area back in the mid/late 1980s (The Wine Merchant of Altamonte Springs) and one day Dan Aykroyd walked in with a couple of friends. He wore a long black London Fog jacket and sunglasses (trying to stay incognito) and started browsing through the Bordeaux section. I happened to be sitting on quite a bit of '83 Margaux and '83 Palmer at the time with great prices. He wanted Lafite, but I talked him into the Margauxs. He came back numerous times for more of both '83s, and then cleaned us out of the '66 and '70 Palmers we had. Not sure what movie he was shooting -
that’s a very cool story, Thomas. He owned a winery here in Ontario at one time, don’t know if he still does.
Yeah sounded very similar to the experience I heard about.
If he was buying 66 and 70 Palmer, he either already knew a lot of about wine or was being well advised by you or others.
We had a big refrigerated room full of older vintage wines. Lots of things from the 30s,40s etc and an unbelievable selection of older Joseph Swan and Diamond Creek. He loved finding stuff in there. And this was the late 1980s, where those wines really weren’t that old (the 1966 was only 20 years old at the time).
I should have gone to Orlando in the late 80s.
No kidding, you’d be shooting par by now!
Trust me though, there are no wine stores like that here anymore! It’s a rare occasion when I actually buy a bottle of wine from this town.
My wife teaches at the school Danielle Aykroyd went to (Saint Ann’s School, in Brooklyn Heights) at the time of the party. She remembers hearing about “the wine party” then.
Actually Robert - I gave Tim Varan his first wine job out of college (Tim’s Wines), and he cut his teeth at the Wine Merchant so many years ago -
I am remiss. Tim runs a fine shop.
You might remember him and this…
Funny that I still have a bottle of it. Had my first date with my wife at Dexter’s, and this was on tab. I bought a six pack thereafter. I’d serve it an anniversary, but my wife doesn’t really go for reds, and Tim thinks it would be dead by now anyway.
Dexter was a hoot. And I loved his old wine bar in Winter Park. I’ll never forget his “soon to be” ex ramming her car through the front of that building (catching him in a very compromising position). I really had a blast while I was down there…
Ha, I know that story!
It was quite the spot, loved Thursday nights! The new and expanded locations never had the same feel or me. Downtown was cool for a while as we had just moved there, but it faded.
Tim created a special place there in Ivanhoe. That’s where I learned about Togni as Tim raved about bell peppers. It’s a great shop, just does not really meet my needs. I do send people there, however. And the people that work there are generally super helpful and knowledgeable.
I didn’t mean to live permanently, just to visit. Started going occasionally in the 1990s - taking kids to Disney World, but never have been to a wine store there.
I doubt anything would have me shooting par at this age, although I did break 80 twice last year.
Was Tab still being sold then. I thought Coke had already come out with Diet Coke.
Interesting. Obviously based on the book by Tom Standage. That’s in my library, “to be read” still.
