the most you would pay for a bottle of wine

For our families at our wedding I bought 2x3L of Perrier Jouet for $250 each, prorated for 750ml = $62.50/ ~47€

I may have spent more than that on a single bottle of wine at retail a couple times, but I can't remember specifics.

The most expensive wine I've ever tasted was a 1961 Chateau Pape Clement grand cru classe bordeaux which a friend shared with us over dinner a couple years ago, retail on that bottle is $500+, I would imagine you'd see it on a fancy wine list for several thousand dollars.

Spirits: A friend of mine owns a restaurant and got a promotional bottle of Nolet's Reserve Gin and popped it open one night when he was bored and had the bartender pour us two chilled shots. I had no idea what it was but I remarked that it tasted "pretty good!" My friend then told me the bottle retails for $750 and the sales rep recommended selling shots for $150/per! It was good but either I'm not a gin person or that's a tremendous waste of money (most likely both).

As others have stated, don't get me started on beer.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i don't usually go above $20 but i have dabbled in the $30-40 range at wine bars when splitting with others. tbh i tend to go for cheap bottles that i can finish in an evening, and save my dough for quality liquor.

Bronze age Canaanite wine cellar discovered in Israel last year.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0106406
http://images.sciencedaily.com/2014/08/140827141559-large.jpg

High arsenic levels in cheap wine
List of wines cited in lawsuit as having high arsenic levels

recently broke £30 for a dinner party gift, regretted it at the time, but last night the host's son visited me & informed me that his mum had gone on at length after I left about how my wine had stolen the show, now feel much better about buying that wine

keep the meme dead: pippa's arsenic

what did u buy xp

shit, it's gone. began with a p, french, about ten letters

lol

hopefully a pomerol, or a pommard

it was great

I will record my wines more assiduously henceforth

Pomerol rings a bell! Yeah I think it was that

i'll pay more for a bottle of whiskey, since it's more stable and can hang out in my liquor cabinet for a long time without ever really going bad, and one drink of whiskey takes less from the bottle than a glass of wine. though i max out at around $45 w/ whiskey. you can get a lot of good whiskies in the $25-$40 range.

― marcos, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:55 AM

dropped 40 euro on a barolo or a valpolicella or s/t lately again obv I just asked at the counter for a good italian red it was for someone else

A bottle of £4.37 wine has been named the best in the world

About 10 years ago or more their used to be a lovely Rioja you could get for £3.29 at Asda that put many £10+ bottles to shame. Even Malcom Gluck raved about it in the Graun iirc.

Best in show in the best single-varietal red under £15.

I feel like the $15-18 range is the sweet spot where it's pretty unlikley I'll get something *bad* if I'm buying from a decent store and have some idea what kind of thing I want. I have go-to wines in the $10-12 range but it gets riskier there.

i don't drink but it's heartening to know that good wines under 15 are plentiful

Gik blue wine comes to the UK from Spain

The producers suggest pairing the wine with sushi, nachos with guacamole or pasta carbonara with music from James Blake or Alt J in the background

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Drinking wine with my boy Rob before Alt-J

I can't remember which £4.37 La Moneda Reserva Malbec won the big wine award but I got a few bottles of their pinot noir and a few of their merlot in this week. So far the merlot is decent - good enough for any low level bon vivant!

The wankers have upped the La Moneda Reserva Malbecit range to £5.75 a bottle now, hope they fucking die.