The Famous Wine Merchant Who Remembered To Take His Wine With Him, But Forgot His Wife
Sokolin holding the bottle broken at the Four Seasons in 1989. It was insured.
WILLIAM E. SAURO / THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Famous Wine Merchant Who Remembered To Take His Wine With Him, But Forgot His Wife
On April 23, 1989, at a black-tie Bordeaux dinner held in the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan, New York, the famous Manhattan wine merchant, William Sokolin broke the highly priced bottle of 1787 Chateau Margaux, one of most expensive wines in the world that he said was worth US$500,000.
He remembered to take his wine with him but forgot to take his wife, Gloria, a real estate broker. “Somebody had to lend me $5 to get a taxi home,” she said.
The bottle was reputed to be from Thomas Jefferson's collection. Insurers paid out US$225,000.
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