WHAT GOES WELL WITH A $4,810 BOTTLE OF WINE?(Editorial)(Column)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: June 3, 1997 | Copyright information

I just bought a bottle of wine. I almost paid $4,810 for it. I don't normally go that high. I always say that paying more than $13 for any bottle of wine is showing off. It's only wine, right?

It's for easing down hamburgers, chicken, ravioli. Water will do the job too, but it's duller. Who sits around having a lovely dinner conversation over a pitcher of water?

Some people use coffee. I did once. But then I sometimes used martinis, too, in those days. Two martinis before dinner hit the spot so well that another martini or two during the meal often seemed irresistible.

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