Then she slipped each one into a separate cardboard cell in the shipping box, like a bottle of precious wine.
Bottles of the Old Vine's precious wine – which is admittedly undrinkable – have been presented to popes, presidents, emperors … and Brad Pitt.
Ingrained social norms say you kind of have to, leaving hosts with crappy bottles of 2-buck Chuck that take up precious wine rack space (I know, I know, bite my bourgeois tongue).
It is the special section of their cellars where the cognac houses store their oldest and most precious wines.
On the surface, the issue of bottle closures would not seem to stir the soul, unless you've uncorked a precious old wine and found not the aroma of transporting romance but the odor of moldy cardboard.
It would not usually occur to me to get precious about what wine you drink with this type of food.
LUXEMBOURG'S financial elite gathered recently for the grand opening of its free port, which will soon house troves of fine art, vintage wine, precious metals and other valuables, beyond the reach of any taxman.
The Geneva free port is used to store high value goods without tax such as art objects, precious metals or wine.
What does it mean for us to stay, like Azaro, in the "world of the living" while reading this lush prose, full to bursting with fruits and seeds, palm wine and precious stones?
According to Wealth-X, a provider of data on the very rich, and UBS, a financial-services firm, a record 199,235 individuals have assets of $30m or more, a 6% increase over 2012.The goods they stash in the freeports range from paintings, fine wine and precious metals to tapestries and even classic cars.
In the early Middle Ages, the rise of Christianity meant that wine and precious metals were imported for use in religious rites, and there are occasional references of trips to and from foreign countries, such as the incident recorded by Adomnán in which St Columba went to a port to await ships bearing news, and presumably other items, from Italy.
