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US SecDef Leon Panetta Scores 141 Year Old Bottle Of Wine For Killing Bin Laden

CNN on the spoils of war:

The Pentagon is confirming that a California restauranteur friend of [US Secretary of Defense Leon] Panetta’s will open a bottle of wine with an estimated value of $10,000-$15,000, and the secretary of defense will be one of several friends toasting Panetta’s CIA-run mission to get Osama Bin Laden.

Monterey, California, restaurateur Ted Balestreri made a bet with Panetta while Panetta was CIA director that if he ever “got” bin Laden, Balestreri would open the oldest bottle of wine in his restaurant.

The secretary told his friend “you’re on,” according to Douglas Wilson, the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs.

The wine in question? An 1870 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, “which a review on the website of New York wine merchant Morrell & Company describes as having ‘a huge nose of freshly sliced celery, mint, cedar, and cassis with a sweet, jammy, powerful finish.'”