Thanks everyone!
RedTrk: Yeah not too far, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours maybe, barring construction.
The guy reluctantly selling me the wine didn't think I deserved to buy such a fine 1997 Brunello. He said (in Italian, best I could understand) that if I opened this bottle before ten years he would come down out of the sky and take it back from me. I still haven't opened it, only been seven years.
I think I read between the lines, Tony. The wine salesman knew he was selling you a crappy bottle of cheap, mis-labeled wine at a higher price than he thought he could get. He told you not to open it for 10 years, figuring he'd be dead by the end of the 10 years and you couldn't hunt him down and beat him senseless.
Holy bearded mopad jockey, Batman!
You look like a classic, there kleftifwallah.
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