Posted on 02/06/2006 12:10:54 AM PST by LibWhacker
Divorce can uncork nasty custody battle
Almost 300 cases of the finest wine, and it evaporated like morning mist. Five-hundred-dollar bottles. Thousand-dollar bottles. The French Bordeaux from his children's birth years, which he planned to uncork at their weddings. The 1966 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild he wanted to share one day with his brother.
The only vintage that remained in his ransacked office, Doug Eisinger said, was a single bottle of 1990 Dom Perignon. "I plan on drinking that on the day of my divorce," he said.
Eisinger, 37, who lives in Sherwood Forest in Anne Arundel County, claims that his estranged wife, Elizabeth, absconded with his $200,000 wine collection in November, breaking into the Arnold office of his construction company where the wine was hidden and then loading about 3,500 bottles into a Thrifty rental truck.
Elizabeth Eisinger's attorney says that she had her own key to the office, that she took much less wine and that she made nowhere near $200,000 upon selling it wholesale (and not through a ritzy Washington auction house, as her husband contends).
Who gets to keep the money won't be sorted out until the divorce -- a particularly messy one filled with charges and counter-charges -- is settled, probably in the summer. Until then, all that both sides can agree on is that the wine itself is gone for good.
The Eisinger saga is more dramatic than most, but custody disputes over huge, vastly expensive wine collections are bubbling up in a growing number of divorce cases in Maryland and across the country, lawyers say, as some Americans' cellars age better than their marriages.
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Come on, you need some good stuff to go with your microwaved burritos!
Live a little!!
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Winey-bitch
"The only vintage that remained in his ransacked office, Doug Eisinger said, was a single bottle of 1990 Dom Perignon. "I plan on drinking that on the day of my divorce," he said."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was better to drink champagne when it is reasonably fresh as opposed to aging for too long.
I bet someone got a good deals on all that wine.
When I was younger and hipper and more of a snooty wisenheimer, I once bought a bottle of Thunderbird for an arty party I was giving as a joke. It was absolutely awful, unlike Spanada which was easy to drink like a sweet fruit punch.
Please don't let quantim know that I ever drank Spanada. I was young, I was foolish. Now I'm older and a little more sober.
Wow. Hope my husband doesn't decide to steal (under cover of darkness) my "Box-O-Burgundy" that's currently on the kitchen counter, LOL!
If I had helped pay for the wine investment, and my soon-to-be-Ex was being a jerk, I would've taken my fair share, too! That was one asset that would've been too easy to liquidate. *Wink*
This is enough of a reason to have the woman killed. Shoot, shovel, shaddup.
"Yes, officer, she's visiting the vinyards on the Southern tip of Chile. She won't be back for a while."
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Oh my gosh! That would be like selling my children. Oh how I hate her!
Don't tell anyone I drank beer yesterday during the game...!
Agreed, our secrets are safe.
Well, you learn something new every day.
This may sound plebian, but I really prefer the cheap stuff, like the Asti Spumantes. While I prefer a dry red wine normally, I don't like brut champagnes.
Disclaimer: Even if it comes with a cork, Riunite is never acceptable. In fact, I'll take Bully Hill with a twist off any day! :->
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