What is the silliest bottle you have ever bought?

WINE TALK
#1

I just got a 6 liter of 1985 Ch. Raymond Lafon sauterne. My nephew’s birth year wine to pour at his wedding rehearsal dinner. How am i going to be able to pour it fast enough for people not to get restless. Pre-pouring ruins the effect.

#2

Buying a 6 liter of interesting, drinkable wine is never silly, IMO. I have a few 6 and 9 liter bottles of pure plonk that I bought just to sit in the wine cellar as decoration. That’s silly. Though I bought them at charity auctions so at least there is that.

#3

An antifreeze blue (IIRC the flavor was tropical) Boone’s Farm at a Wal-Mart in El Paso while buying supplies for a camping trip in West Texas.

Or maybe a few bottles of Night Train as a prank when visiting my best bud in San Fran years ago.

If you mean something actually consumable, probably a bottle of wine made by the lead singer of Queensryche (or perhaps made under his name/label) after stumbling into a private concert he was giving at a tasting room in Walla Walla.

#4

I bought that first year’s bottle of Marilyn Merlot as a gift for my friend’s dad who is a big fan.

His house is a shrine.

Still there, standing upright in his display case, is that bottle.

He tracks it’s value and brings it up whenever I see him.

#5

LOL!

Sometime in the mid-late 70’s, I went to a bike race near Bullhead City, AZ and strolled into a liquor store. (I had a primo fake ID.)

I saw a thing called MD 20/20 and it said “Grape Wine” on it.

Ha ha! I was so tickled that I bought one and hung onto it over the years. “Grape wine, d’uh!”

In 2000, we opened it to commemorate a gathering of the people who had been on that trip and each took a taste - my hunch is that it tasted the exact same as the day I bought it.

Shortly after that first discovery I found out that Boone’s Farm apple wine existed.

I think there was also a thing called Strawberry Hill strawberry wine.

Crazy!

#6

HBU.

#7

Bottle of Mick Fleetwood Cabernet. Signed by him at Costco.

#8

Based on your bottle, Jay, your nephew’s rehearsal dinner should have 160 people at it. How many people will be at the wedding itself???

#9

Which invites the question: Do you still have it?

#10

A 6 liter bottle of a dry wine, I can see. But a Sauternes? That will put everyone into sugar shock.

#11

A bottle of Pisse Vieille. Bought it for the silly name, but it was an OK Brouilly.

#12

Of course! When’s the right time to drink a bottle like that?

#13

We counting “drunk on Winebid” purchases or not?

#14

[rofl.gif]

Yes, better to view it as commemorative.

#15

Don’t sleep on strawberry hill boones, delicious as a teen on a warm summer day…

#16

An LLC 1994 double-magnum, for $150, from a WB’er. The bottle is still on its side in my large refrigerator, for almost twenty years, awaiting an occasion with enough attendees to drink essentially one third of a standard wine case.

#17

NV DON G. CAPPELLANO BAROLO CHINATO SERRALUNGA d`ALBA

#18

Really…why, unless you don’t like Chinato?

#19

Kidding, hoping to get a rise out of Blake-

#20

I couldn’t not buy a bottle of Moldovan Old Tavern once I saw the fake tree bark bottle, with real sawn-off branches embedded in the epoxy bark:

(How did it smell and taste, you ask? Like shoe polish.)