Selections from the Zachy's June 1978 Wine List Customers Only Sale

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I just found the 15 page special sale list in an old suitcase of assorted stuff that has sat in a closet with my boxes of 1988 Donruss BB cards. Here are a few select items:

1976 P. Jouard Batard Montrachet - $150/case
1976 Marquis de Laguiche Montrachet -$330/case
1976 Dauvisat Chablis GC Les Preuses - $74/case
1974 Bienvenue Batard -$165/case
1972 Rieussec - $2.99/bottle
1970 Biondi Santi Brunello - $24/bottle
1972 Ch Lafite; 1972 Latour, 1972 Haut Brion, 1972 Cheval Blanc, all $11.50 per bottle. The first growth price skyrocketed to $23.75/bottle for the 1975 vintage at Zachy’s. I drank my last one - a Cheval Blanc, with The Count last summer and the price tag was still on it.
1975 Ridge Lytton Springs $6.65/bottle
1974 Chateau St Jean Cabernet (Magnum) $18/bottle.

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Oooh! 1972 Bordeaux :roll_eyes:

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I remember those prices and still have a couple of bottles from the early ‘70s with price tags that reflect the times.

I was just looking at a wine list from the Forge Restaurant in Miami from the late 70s. I probably could have screwed my courage up for a couple of these Burgundies

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I also pulled down a Heublein auction catalogue from the same time period that list these CASE prices for Bordeaux:

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And for Jay, Cali Cab:

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Yer killin’ me.

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BTW, Love A Book of Days.

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What happened to all of those 1988 Donruss cards? I also had a bunch of those cards, too!

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How many Gregg Jeffries did you have in that pile?

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How much does one need to spend today to get a wine of equivalent quality? Without having tasted those wines from the 70s, I’d suspect that inflation adjusted pricing isn’t much more?

For example, $1 in 1978 is worth $5 today. So that Biondi Santi is $135 today. I imagine one can get that quality of Brunello today for less than $135.

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Stop…we’re already dead.

There’s been dozens of these type posts thru the years-the one constant is a lack of ‘63’s

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The actual prices are not as interesting as the relative comparisons. Back then German riesling was much more expensive than Burgundy.

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They are still in original wax packs in original boxes in my closet. Donruss printed so many that they sold them to my father for his retail store with a right of return and at the end of the year, they just refunded the money to him and told him that they didn’t want them back. I have many 1989s and 1990s boxes. I think that the only valuable card is a Griffey Rookie, which must be in there somewhere. I have a never opened, still sealed in plastic, box of 1992 Donruss card, and then my father decide that buying cards was stupid. On the front, it says, “5000 personally autographed Cal Ripken cards randomly inserted.” My odds aren’t berry berry good.

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I have only opened a few packs and I do not remember any. I have a Fred McGriff Diamond Kings card in the HOF category.