{"id":28,"date":"2010-10-27T16:21:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-10-27T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T20:22:57","slug":"proving-yet-again-that-money-cant-buy-taste-by-which-they-mean-literally-cant-buy-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2010\/10\/27\/proving-yet-again-that-money-cant-buy-taste-by-which-they-mean-literally-cant-buy-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Proving Yet Again That Money Can&#8217;t Buy Taste, By Which They Mean It Literally Can&#8217;t Buy Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Halberstadt extracts <a href=\"http:\/\/thefastertimes.com\/wine\/2010\/10\/26\/war-stories-from-manhattan-sommeliers\/\">some great stories from Manhattan sommeliers<\/a> for The Faster Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After two gangsterish Russians downed several thousand-dollar bottles of champagne, they switched to &#8217;89 Mouton Rothschild, just under $2K per bottle. They emptied one bottle, then another; when I opened a third I realized it was corked. I had more of the wine downstairs and when I headed there one of the men barked at me and demanded to taste from the bottle in my hands. I explained that it was corked, but either he didn&#8217;t follow my English or didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;corked&#8221; meant. He sipped the wine and smiled. &#8220;The best one yet,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;The others were too fruity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(More, please &#8212; these stories are awesome . . .)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Halberstadt extracts some great stories from Manhattan sommeliers for The Faster Times: After two gangsterish Russians downed several thousand-dollar bottles of champagne, they switched to &#8217;89 Mouton Rothschild, just under $2K per bottle. They emptied one bottle, then another; when I opened a third I realized it was corked. I had more of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[24,40],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-notes","tag-bordeaux","tag-sommeliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}