Originally Posted by
cyborg
Similar thing happened to me at a Safeway in Los Gatos, CA. Sterling Reserve Cab 1978 rung up as a bottle deposit - a few cents...
My Liquor Barn episode was a Stags Leap Cask 23 showing up as a bottle of ESB Red Hook for $1.25...
Fun with UPC labels...
...as for clock cleaning those French gems, my recollection and feeble attempts at time displaced comparisons place the the '82 and '86 Moutons as equal yet different. However, I concur with your assessment of the Lafite and Margaux vs. Sterling (for those specific years). The others I've not tried (or don't recall).
Cheers,
-Cyborg
To be fair, at the time, the particular bottle of '82 Mouton was closed up tight as a drum, and the '86 Mouton was the consensus 2nd best wine of the tasting behind the Sterling, even though it was obviously very much on the young side.