Tsar's rare vintages up for sale - Democratic Underground

emad

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Fri Dec-03-04 10:34 AM
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Tsar's rare vintages up for sale

BBC News

The vintage wine is expected to sell for £500,000

Some of the finest and rarest Russian wines ever to go on sale could fetch up to £4,000 a bottle, according to auction house Sotheby's.

The vintages come from the Imperial winery at Massandra, near Yalta, on the southern coast of Crimea.

About 150 fortified and dessert wines are expected to fetch over £500,000 when auctioned in London on Friday.

They were blended to the tastes of Tsar Nicholas II and later Joseph Stalin, who added to the vast cellars.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4064607.stm

Anyone offering to buy Junior a bottle of Stalin's Special Reserve for Xmas???

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russian33

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Fri Dec-03-04 10:35 AM
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1. Forget Junior, Stalin knew a good wine, being Georgian, I'll drink it

buy me a bottle

:)

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