Battalion/Page 3
July 27, 1982
Local liquor store offers
wine for nearly $11,000
by Cyndy Davis
Battalion Staff
Pay almost $ 11,000 for a bot
tle of wine?
If it was the last available bot
tle of its kind, you might recon
sider. And Randy’s Liquor own
ers Ira and Georgeann Held and
Sammy Pugh have such a bottle
for sale.
The trio is asking $10,860 for
the 1953 Petrus Double Mag
num which it purchased from
the Chateau Petrus cellars in
France. The wine was trans
ported to Dallas last week and
arrived in College Station Friday
night.
Held said the , French Bor
deaux wine is the last available
bottle of its kind. About 2,000
were originally produced and
the last sold for $11,000 at the
Heublein Auction in Chicago
about two months ago.
“It’s an incredible vintage, an
incredible year, an incredible
wine,” he said.
For those with less expensive
taste, Held also has two “very
rare” double magnum-sized bot
tles of Chateau Lafite Roth
schild for sale.
A double magnum-sized bot
tle holds about one gallon.
The 1949 vintage Rothschild
is available for $2,695. Held said
the type of bottle makes this
wine rare. The Marie-Jeanne
bottle, “a squatty, double mag
num” is hand-blown. This parti
cular type of bottle is no longer
made.
The 1961 Rothschild costs
$3,800.
“These are probably some of
the rarest bottles of wine
around,” he said.
The three bottles are kept in
cases on a shelf in the “always 68
degrees temperature” of Ran
dy’s Liquor Store on University
Drive.
A special cabinet had been
ordered for them but was not
completed on time.
Held said he expected a wine
collector or businessman might
buy the wine.
However, this wine might
never be served with dinner.
“There are many collectors in
the Bryan-College Station area
who purchase wine as an invest
ment — like fine art,” he said.
Several wine collectors have
already expressed interest in the
wine, he said, but he declined to
name any prospective buyers,
saying that wine collectors are
“very private people.”
A wealthy businessman might
buy a bottle of wine such as the
Petrus and have some friends
over for dinner, charging them
$2,000 a plate, serve the wine,
donate the money to charity and
claim it all as a tax deduction,
Held said.
He said he believes bringing
this wine to College Station
might start a trend in the area.
“If the people of Bryan-
College Station want something,
they have had to go to Dallas or
Houston to get it,” Held said.
“Now here’s something they
won’t have to travel for. Now the
people in Houston and Dallas
will have to come here. This is
something they don’t have.”
Before coming to College Sta
tion 10 months ago, Held was in
the wine import/export business
in Panama and in Paris.
He expects to purchase more
rare bottles of wine in the fu
ture, he said.
But his influence in the wine
industry has not always gotten
him everything he wanted.
Last week he offered $42$00
for an 1864 Chateau Lafite Dou
ble Magnum but was turned
down.
Today’s almanac
United Press International
Today is Tuesday, July 27, the
208th day of 1982 with 157 to
follow.
On this date in history:
In 1909, Orville Wright set a
world record by staying aloft in a
plane for one hour, 12 minutes
and 40 seconds.
Chateau Lafite
In 1953, after two years and
17 days of negotiations, the war
in Korea was declared at an end.
In 1974, the House Judiciary
Committee voted, 27-11, to re
commend the impeachment of
President Richard Nixon on an
article relating to Watergate.
In 1980, deposed Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of
Iran died in an Egyptian milit
ary hospital of cancer at the age
of 60. He was buried two days
later in a state funeral attended
by former President Nixon.
A thought for the day:
French novelist Alexander
Dumas said, “Business? It’s quite
simple. It’s other people’s
money.”
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