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Old Dec 31, 2024 | 7:09 am
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Originally Posted by broenor
Thanks for sharing. It must have been an amazing experience!
Thank you broenor. It was indeed memorable.

Originally Posted by ordogg
What an awesome experience. How did the wine from 1918 hold up?
All the wines held up very well including the 1918. Francois opens each bottle some 3-4 hours prior to his dinners to let them breathe and evolve. He's told of bottles that smelled absolutely terrible on first open (that others have thrown away) but were wonderful 4 hours later.

Originally Posted by Fabo.sk
Wow. Certainly a wine list worthy of food being the pairing rather than the other way round.
If you don't mind me asking, how much is it, roughly speaking? In the interest of, is this even an attainable bucket list item for a normie like me.
Prices vary according to his wine selections for each dinner, and roughly track the price/value of the wines. The dinner price range this past year was between 2,200€ and 6,500€ both including 20% VAT. My dinner was 3,120€ including tax (2,600€ pretax). I had calculated the aggregate value of the 10 wines on our list was in the 20,000€ range, so 2,000€ per person.

Originally Posted by popoemt
I did some google searching and found two different prices from 2016'ish and it was between $2200-2600 back then. . .
Indeed. Thanks popoemt.
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