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Billionaire Jeff Bezos celebrated his engagement to Lauren Sanchez with a $4,285 bottle of wine that, according to wine experts, is only worth hundreds.

A popular New York City wine seller said Jeff Bezos got squeezed on the reported $4,285 tab for the bottle of Dugat-Py Grand Cru from Domaine Bernard.

La Paulée de New York 2020: Era-defining By Jordan Mackay |  April 12 2021 La Paulee 2020. All photography courtesy of La Paulée The 20th anniversary edition of the celebration of Burgundy proved to be a spectacular occasion From only one year out, reflecting on La Paulée de New York 2020 feels like gazing back into another era. As it always does, the great celebration of Burgundy took place at various venues across the Big Apple in the chilly, windblown first ...

Trond A Gudbrandsen, by email, asks: What is your view on the 2008 vintage for red Burgundy today? Charles Curtis MW, a New York-based journalist and author, formerly head of wine for Christie’s in the US and Asia, replies: The 2008 vintage in Burgundy is remembered as perhaps the best example of a season ‘saved by the bell’, or more appropriately, saved by une belle arrière-saison – the timely intervention of dry, sunny weather at the very last moment. Growers certainly needed savin...

Era-defining Jordan Mackay recalls the spectacular 20th anniversary edition of the celebration of Burgundy and previews this year’s online Paulée Mondiale, March 10–21 From only one year out, reflecting on La Paulée de New York 2020 feels like gazing back into another era. As it always does, the great celebration of Burgundy took place at various venues across the Big Apple in the chilly, windblown first week of March. But this first week of March also happened to be the last week of a p...