{"id":10426,"date":"2011-07-26T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10426"},"modified":"2014-11-12T21:08:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T02:08:38","slug":"117000-for-a-bottle-of-white-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/117000-for-a-bottle-of-white-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"$117,000 for a bottle of white wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new record price paid for a single <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/scene\/2011\/07\/26\/bottle-of-white-sells-for-117000-breaking-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">bottle of white wine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Christian Vanneque fulfilled a long-held dream today by finally getting his hands on a bottle of 1811 Chateau d\u2019Yquem. It just so happens that his $117,000 purchase has also put him in the history books.<\/p>\n<p>His prized bottle is the most expensive white wine ever purchased, breaking the previous record of $100,000 in 2006 for a bottle of 1787 Chateau d\u2019Yquem. Mr. Vanneque\u2019s bottle is also a sweet Sauternes from the same Bordeaux chateau, though his purchase was produced in 1811, a year also known as the \u201ccomet year.\u201d Oenophiles throughout history attribute the appearance of a comet for the reason why wines were extraordinary that year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new record price paid for a single bottle of white wine: Christian Vanneque fulfilled a long-held dream today by finally getting his hands on a bottle of 1811 Chateau d\u2019Yquem. It just so happens that his $117,000 purchase has also put him in the history books. His prized bottle is the most expensive white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,73,131],"tags":[1004],"class_list":["post-10426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-randomness","category-wine","tag-comet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Ia","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10428,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions\/10428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}