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The Harvard House system, based so closely on the Oxford-Cambridge model, conspicuously lacks one luxury: While Kings College, Cambridge has a wine cellar rumored to contain tens of thousands of bottles, Harvard’s Houses have remained cellar-less. Nevertheless, devotion to that “bottled poetry?...
Stavins has been collecting wine for two decades and has amassed a cellar of about 1,200 bottles.
He brings out menus from some of these dinners, filled with names that strike sharp pangs of envy into other oenophiles’ hearts: mature Château Montrose, Château Mouton Rothschild (each bottle now worth more than $1,000), and Château d’Yquem...
“I was searching for funds, because at the time the Kennedy School was small and poor,” he says. “We go into this rather odd-looking warehouse...It turns out there are five to six thousand bottles. Starting in 1908, there are...
Ultimately, Allison realized the impracticality of owning such a collection. “What do Harvard people want to drink $1,000 bottles of wine for?”