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...third annual wine auction in San Francisco last week, Auctioneer J. Michael Broadbent apologized for being unable to distribute samples of his next offering, Lot No. 56. He did not have to explain why. Lot No. 56 consisted of a single 24-ounce bottle of Château Lafite, vintage 1846, that was described as "quite unfaded and fantastic." After several minutes of quiet, tense bidding, it was sold to Laurence Bender, a 25-year-old officer of Boston's venerable wine and spirits merchants, John Gilbert Jr. Co. The price: $5,000, more than ten times the previous...
...recently was reserved by Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel for the exclusive sipping of visiting Presidents. After the headlining items had been displayed by a brocaded, powder-wigged chamberlain and sold, connoisseurs and individual collectors were able to bid on the less celestial vintages: a case of Château la Gaffelière Naudes 1952, a red Bordeaux, was gaveled down...
Wine Future. Heublein reserved about 2% of the stock, part of which was assembled from the private cellars of French château owners, for open tasting, a practice unheard of among European sellers. The samples included several bottles of 79-year-old California Pinot Noir and some Château Mouton Rothschild a year younger...
PepsiCo spent $25 million to preserve the bucolic effect. Business suits seem oddly out of place amid the meadows and groves. Thick stands of trees hide the 1,200 employees' cars from sight. The headquarters building itself is as low and lavish as a latter-day château. It is really seven separate buildings, linked at corners and grouped around a formal central courtyard...
Never more so than on one recent night, when some 1,000 paying visitors to the château gathered in the verdant gardens to hear the first in a projected series of orchestral concerts. The program, chosen by the viscount himself, suited both the occasion and the location: Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and Haydn's celebration to The Bear...