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A woman laughs while opening a bottle of wine at a kitchen counter as a dinner guest stands across the island.
Winemaker Elise Brannigan opens a guest's bottle at her home in St. Helena. Cru & Cellar

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Guest Brings $14 Bottle To Winemaker's House, Is Correct To

Host, whose cellar contains 900 bottles of Cabernet, has since bought a case.

Arriving for dinner with a $14 bottle of Portuguese red he grabbed at the grocery store on the way, guest Marco Feld handed his host the single most welcome object to enter the home in months, sources confirmed. “Oh thank God,” said winemaker Elise Brannigan, whose cellar contains 900 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon and whose refrigerator contains nothing. “Do you know what people bring me? They bring me Cabernet. They bring me their Cabernet and they watch my face.” Brannigan opened the bottle immediately, drank most of it, and reportedly asked what it was three separate times. She has since bought a case.