Experts valued the wine collection — which includes dozens of bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild and vintage Cristal champagne, as well as California wines such as Opus One — at up to $100,000.
“I wish I had this collection,” said Robert Yetman, a wine-industry consultant and professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. “It’s a little showy, but nice.”
Per Holmberg, director of acquisitions for Vinfolio, a San Francisco company that sells fine wine to collectors, called Hsu’s selections classic — the choices of “a true bon vivant.”
Sounds to me more like the choices of a “true pimp.” This “collection” sounds like something thrown together by a guy who walks into BevMo and says, “What’s the most expensive champagne you got? Cristal? Great. Gimme a couple of cases. And some of that Rothschild stuff, I hear about that all the time. How about domestic red wines? Opus One? Fine. Three cases of that, too.”
Any “connoisseur” who actually knows wine would beat the shit out of that “cellar” without breathing hard.
Of course, the Clintons always have liked low-rent hoods.
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$100 says this guy has a DEA badge stuffed in a drawer somewhere. Probably in the Jungle Room.
Great points, Bill.
Nothing more annoying than a wine dillettante.