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- <text id=89TT1186>
- <title>
- May 08, 1989: Hit The Bottle
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 08, 1989 Fusion Or Illusion?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 89
- Hit the Bottle
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
- </p>
- <p> New York City wine merchant William Sokolin likes to show
- off. So last week he brought a bottle of 1787 Chateau Margaux,
- which he valued at more than $500,000 and which may have been
- owned by Thomas Jefferson, to exhibit at a wine-tasting party
- at the posh Four Seasons restaurant. Sokolin did not intend to
- hit the bottle -- but he did, against a serving table. Cradling
- the bottle tightly against his hip, Sokolin suddenly felt the
- liquid asset dribbling down his leg. "When the bottle was
- shattered," he explained afterward, "I was shattered."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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