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Hagi

Hey, Sachi, okay, so I know you don't drink so I'm kind of curious what you think about like fancy people who really care about their fancy wine

who?

I mean you and I have share a mutual friend who's like a very fancy wine person

Yeah, and you know she often tells me things and my eyes just kind of glaze over and I'm like, okay. Yeah

It's just like not my world. I don't care right as you know

I love wine. I drink a lot of wine. I'm real like line mom energy unfortunately

But I don't think I'd be able to determine the difference between a $30 bottle and a $70 bottle

But also if you're at home and listening to this, please feel free to give me a $70 bottle of wine

I'll take it. That's how much wine costs Sarah. It can cost any amount of money

Whatever happens in this episode pretend you're talking to an alien. Okay

Sure, well this week's story is all about the richy Richie's who think they know what makes delicious

expensive wine worth its exorbitant cost but surprise surprise turns out some of them were just getting a little tipsy and

super scammed

Sarah, let's go back to April 2008

It's the great recession, which is a dark time for most people

But the 1% are still living large especially a crew a basement restaurant in New York's Greenwich village

It's covered in dark wood and oil paintings

But crews clientele are not there for the decor

They're there for the incredible wine seller of more than a hundred thousand bottles

freelance journalist Peter Hellman is here to cover an elite wine auction

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