Reply #11: Not so much,

[hifiguy]

Once at a trade show a friend treated me to a $650 bottle of Ridge Montebello Cabernet at a Vegas restaurant. On the company's dime, of course, but I am a longstanding friend of that company. Best wine I have ever drunk in my life, and I've had some extraorinary stuff in my day, mostly thanks to friends.

Another industry friend presented me with a bottle of 1984 Chateau Latour a few years ago - she'd bought a case on futures back in the day and still had ten more bottles. Looked it up on winecommune and just about fell out of my chair. It was selling for $700/bottle. It is in climate controiled storage awaiting a suitable occasion for imbibing.

Most expensive bottle I've ever seen on a wine list was a 1982 Chateau Petrus in Le Bec Fin in Philly back in 2001. $6,200.