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CLUES > COST THINK YORK RECENT 50 JEFFERSON TASTE TABLE WAIT TRAY TERRIBLE
Wine is not cheap
(a) good wine can
a lot of money
days. So spare a
for Mr Sokolin, a
York wine merchant, who
lost a bottle of
worth £305,000 (or about £
,000 a glass!). It was
1784 Chateau Margaux that
once belonged to Thomas
, the third President of
USA. Mr Sokolin took
bottle to a wine
and putting on a
. The bottle was made
dark glass and a
did not notice it.
hit it with a
, making a large hole
it. Most of the
was lost, but Mr
was able to taste
of it. He said
was "not very good",
the loss of the
was described as "a
tragedy".
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