Ya Pays Yer Money and Ya Takes Yer Choice

The Wine Spectator for December 15 reported that at Christie's inaugural wine auction in Los Angeles on September 28, an anonymous telephone bidder paid $290,000 for a case of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1945 and capped that by paying $345,000 for a case of six magnums of the same wine. Talk about cornering the market. Ha-ha, that's not the point of cours…