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How to Pick a Great Wine to Give as a Gift

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    The Morrell Wine Group Chairman Peter Morrell offers tips for choosing wines to enjoy with your dinner or bring as gifts to parties.

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Christmas is just around the corner and chances are some online shopping list would love a great bottle of wine and I would.

Makes a great gifts.

She can get a decent bottled -- believe they're not for under twenty bucks.

Well we asked one of New York city's most prominent wine merchants she hammer out who invited me.

Blissfully.

Into his wine bar and store in New York city's Rockefeller Center and we told me it may surprise you him.

This holiday season and I'm thinking I gotta play the viola -- and with the Trachtenberg.

First well can I bring a decent bottle that doesn't wasn't a lot of money.

That's very easy to very.

Home holding a bottle that I that is very decent from Spain.

It's called hence yet.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- From -- and it's all right going Marlins T solutions now but what if I don't on the menu I don't know what they're serving I have no idea why don't think that matters when you -- -- when you really want him.

For road to dinner.

Most people think that the people -- who's gonna.

You're gonna have the bottle right there and -- a very often the people have their own wind ready and immune.

Still can't points -- -- viewing it as a gift more so than matching happens in real time.

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-- California sparkling wine Spanish sparkling wine.

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I'm in charge of -- the -- -- general what's the safest bet Latino pinot noir and pinot noir.

These things people to enjoy this is smooth -- Great.

And even the perfect -- and again I can Jennifer.

-- -- -- -- My wife and I drink QE.

A Torrance has which is -- from Argentina -- it's why our lives are every night white wine in the we alternate between Chardonnay -- should we -- tour.

That's nine dollars calls so there's your budget he started in 1947.

1970 for yourself on the map when he went voters really expensive bottle of wine had the opportunity.

To taste the wine.

That was mean.

The -- Lincoln was shot which is 1865.

And I decided that that only have that opportunity once in my life and I went forward and bought a double -- vacancies to -- Rothschild.

An auction block grants going all the world record price at that time was an outrageous 520 dollars us yes.

We worth of 50060000.

All the -- -- that you have it.

No I -- it was it worth every penny I -- 500 bucks at that time.

A lot of money she was so surprising that -- was actually young.

Really yes it was a 105 years old time it was a once in a lifetime opportunity -- on the map of the -- -- yes.

Some of the most expensive models in his little room -- us right now and Peter you are holding.

What you're covering it like a movie and newborn child well I have to be very careful with this fall because it's so expensive -- so precious.

It's I have I did even though we had this -- -- 1945 shows -- as you know we all.

And itself from the -- you want them.

95 dollars.

And census prices because like real estate that'll make this anymore.

So how long first of all in this this in 1945.

How long can you hold this before you changing and in -- -- -- -- -- yes of course you can drink.

Hello my usually like to -- I would guess it's.

Extraordinarily -- -- model ex governor Clinton.

This particular vintages so powerful and so.

Huge.

Character that is probably -- lesson.

I can't get to Manhattan to -- -- -- establishment because -- -- online now as overall -- directly.

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And you can always doing really well he's had one online -- the day -- 60000 dollars whose finest.

Wine lovers.