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There was a moment in my life when I owned a 600-bottle collection of wine – some of the greatest names and finest vintages from California’s “cult” Cabernets and French Bourdeaux. Bryant Family, Hundred Acre, Scarecrow, and Colgin Cellars from California—vintages from 2007 through 2013, some fabulous years for Cali cult wines.
And there was the price of my collection: Four half-bottles of the 2001 Chateau d’Yquem, the most famous white Bordeaux and arguably one of the greatest wines in a century, if not ever.
Alas, I auctioned off all of them as part of a divorce. Rented a van and drove the 600-bottle lot north from Louisiana, where I was living at the time, to a New York wine auction house. Was far cheaper – and far less nerve-wracking! – than shipping all those pricey bottles as freight.
I share that story as a way of saying, What I would have given to have had a company like BAXUS at that time.
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