Sam Edmonds

Oh, I don't think I ghosted him.

I'm not sure about that, but I was looking for you there.

I thought you might be hanging around.

The general rule I abide by is the older the wine, the later you open it because the wine already is well developed.

The last thing you want to do is get oxygen into it early.

So if it's a 40-year-old bottle of wine, most likely under cork, you would open it.

If the cork crumbles, then pour it through a tea strainer or some sort of strainer and then pour it straight into the glass and drink it.

Do not decant it.

Decanting will add too much air into the wine and the wine will go brown in front of you.

So I normally say anything older than 15 years, I like to just pour and let the glass do the work rather than aggressively decanting it.

The older it is, the more- The later I open it.

What do you mean the later?

The later.

So if you're going to drink it at 7 o'clock, I'd open it at 7 o'clock and pour it into the glass, whereas if it's something that's younger, I'd open it a bit earlier, pour it into a decanter, swirl it around, let it breathe, guys.

That's it.

A couple dressed up nicely walked into a restaurant in Virginia, which is a very high-end restaurant that's got an amazing wine cellar, and they pretended they were event planners with an English accent.

and while the lady was talking to the sommelier who was showing him the underground cellar the accomplice had this big trench coat on with stitched in pockets and he had two bottles of cheap wine in there and he replaced two bodies two bottles of domain de la romani conti one of the greatest wines in the world with these two cheap ones uh they never read uh they didn't put ramble red on there

And so they took the two bottles of DRC, which probably about $25,000, $30,000 a bottle.

But they did get caught.

She got caught.