Signed Bottles?
2Do you treat them differently than your others? Open them to impress guests? Hold onto the empties for sentimental reasons?
I’ve opened Victories that impressed my friends for the contents of the bottle. But they’d never heard of Wellington, so I don’t think the signature impressed them too much.
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Sometimes saying “I know the winemaker” piques people’s interest, but yeah, signed bottles are mostly nothing special imo.
One way to keep them is to turn them into candles, then you have something useful (?) and it’s not just a dust collector.
@klezman Soon to become a dusty bottle with a dusty candle stuck in it, chez moi.
@InFrom @klezman
Yeah i threw the few i had away except one and it’s COVERED in dust, thank for reminding me i need to throw that away!
@InFrom @ScottW58 Exactly why it’s “useful (?)”
I have Clark, Peter, and Scott signed bottles. The most memorable is from Scott at the wine dinner in Wooster, Ohio. (RIP those days) He asked what Nebbiolo meant in Italian, I guessed fog and I won. He came over with the bottle and a sharpie and asked for my name. Which I told, then he gave me a subtle shoulder nudge “and hers?” such the romantic.
We plan on opening it in about 6 years, making it a decade. It is a J & S Reserve Barbera. Won’t be showing it off or anything like that, just a nice reminder of a great time.
I guess I should mention these are bottles with wine in them. Once opened, I see no need to keep a bottle signed or unsigned. Into recycling. So my neighbors know I have a problem when they empty the bin on collection day.
@KNmeh7 I still have my 2001 signed magnum Syrah of Wellington I opened at Memorial Day when friends gathered to celebrate life (one left too)!