Beverages/Worth of bottle of wine
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My father has a bottle of Chianti Gino from 1980 with a bottle neck around 2 feet long. Is this worth anything? It looks like nothing I have seen before. Thank you.
Hi Deb
Sorry, but these bottles were never intended for long-term aging. They were made as display bottles for restaurants, and the wine inside really should have been consumed within a few years of the vintage date. As such, this one doesn't have much value to a wine connoisseur. And there were so many of these made that I haven't seen a good market for them in the bottle collectors' market either.
Sorry to be the bearer of sad news.
Paul Wagner
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