Tour d'Argent Wine Cellar Selling Off Prized Bottles

Wine lovers, take note: Le Tour d'Argent, one of Paris's "crème de la crème" restaurants, is looking to get rid of thousands of bottles from its massive collection of wines, champagne and other specialties. According to CNN, the cellar will be auctioning off around 18,000 items from its collection of 450,000 bottles in Paris on December 7th and 8th, hoping to raise over $1 million to revamp the historic restaurant. Some of the bottles are hardly drinkable but will be coveted by collectors as artifacts: the collection includes a 1788 cognac and a bottle of champagne dating to 1815. These will obviously not be accessible to most of us, but some of the more modest "crus" are expected to go for as little as $30 for several bottles, according to CNN.