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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Memo to world’s despots: drink up — while you still can
Methinks that “Drink up while you still can” is the overriding lesson gleaned from today’s Decanter.com story about a recent auction sale of some 1959 Dom Perignon Rose Champagne that belonged to the Shah of Iran.
(Note to younger readers: Iran wasn’t always the third spoke of the “Axis of Evil.” It actually had a government that was friendly to the United States. Very friendly. Imperfect, yes. Doomed, yes. Overthrown by its own people, yes. But hey, friendly to the U.S. End history lesson.)
You’ve gotta love the quote from the Dom Perignon guy about the wine in question: “‘a rare, superlative, mythical vintage. Powerful and solar, its light will inspire the creation of Dom Perignon rose forever.”
Wow! And we thought in yesterday’s post that American wines were a bit over the top in their back-label marketing prose. We don’t hold a (solar) candle to the French.
Anyway, if you know of any despots, get the message to them: Drink up while you still can!
Come to think of it, that’s not bad advice for the rest of us, either.
What bottle do you have in your cellar that you most definitely DON’T want to leave to some auction house?
Mark Fisher
